ERC Starting Grant · 2025
In 1826, the first LRJ blade point in Britain was found at Kent’s Cavern. ARRIVAL will return to the cave 200 years later to answer the fundamental questions we still ask about these tools - who made them and when? Ground-breaking advances in archaeological science methods over the past decade enable us to study the dynamics of the Neanderthal-Homo sapiens transition in unprecedented resolution but few sites have been explored with the full suite of methods. New findings from Ranis, Germany, have recently proven that Homo sapiens were present in northern Europe between 47,500 - 43,000 years ago, much earlier than previously suspected. These people made stone tools known as the…
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