First Britons

New archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries, it’s been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these Stone Age people were, where they came from, what impact they had, and how they give birth to the island nation of Britain.

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