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The Man of Galley Hill
(Homo sapiens)
In 1888, portions of a skull and several other bones were found in the Ice Age gravels of Galley Hill, near Kent, England. The gravels, located about 100 feet above the Thames River, contained flint spear points. No geologists were present when the bones were found, thus the exact location was never established. At that time, scientists believed the bones to be as old as 200,000 years, even though they were anatomically modern (Homo sapiens). The skeleton's age has not stood the test of time and is now considered to be of recent origin. A radiocarbon test gave the age as 3,310 + 150 years before the present. |