ARCHAEOLOGISTS have this week resumed their search for the remains of the oldest European. His shinbone was discovered in a quarry at Boxgrove in West Sussex last year.
The left tibia of 鈥淏oxgrove Man鈥�, thought to be male because of its size, is about 500 000 years old. It was excavated from silt deposits formed during the Middle Pleistocene and is all that remains of the earliest Briton. But archaeologists at English Heritage are confident that the site will yield more ancient bones to reveal a better picture of the man and his environment.
Chris Stringer, an expert on fossil hominids at London鈥檚 Natural History Museum, is particularly keen to find a jawbone with teeth at the site.
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