BORN TO HUNT MAMMOTHS.

Aki Atkinson
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read
Early Human Mammoth Hunters by Stuart Jackson-Carter.

One things which many people don’t seem to understand about human history is quite how long it is. Or how incredibly short modern history is compared to Prehistory.

For example, the first archaic humans arrived in Britain 800,000 years ago. These humanoids were not Homo Sapiens, but they were tool using bipeds like ourselves. The first Homo Sapiens reached Britain 40,000 years ago. Only 0.25% of British history is…

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