The First Britons

A talk by Professor Chris Stringer FRS for the Tennant Lecture Series 

Tuesday 23^rd November at 7.00pm

This is an online talk and details to join can be found below

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain and Pathways to Ancient Britain projects have been investigating major questions about the human colonisations of Britain and Europe. Issues addressed include the earliest evidence for human arrival in Britain, with at least 9 subsequent colonisations, probably by 4 different species, and an investigation into what was controlling these arrivals and subsequent extinctions. In this talk Professor Chris Stringer will provide an update on the progress of these projects, including work on 900,000-year-old footprints from Norfolk, and evidence from Jersey of interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans about 45,000 years ago. 

Chris Stringer has worked at The Natural History Museum London since 1973 and is now Research Leader in Human Origins and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has published over 300 scientific papers and his recent books include Our Human Story, which was published in 2018.

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