Eartham Pit, Boxgrove

Eartham Pit, Boxgrove
Laura Sánchez-Romero, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Dimitri De Loecker & Matthew Pope (paper) UK Government (LIDAR) · CC BY 4.0

Eartham Pit (Boxgrove) is a Lower Palaeolithic site in West Sussex, England, dating to approximately 480,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. It contains the oldest human remains found in Britain, known as "Boxgrove Man," believed to be Homo heidelbergensis. The site provides rare direct evidence of hunting and butchering activities, making it one of Europe's oldest locations showing such behavior [1].

TypeArchaeological site
Period< 4500 BC
CountryUnited Kingdom
Coordinates50.8701° N, 0.6900° W

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