Picture Gallery: Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story at the Natural History Museum

By Culture24 Reporter | 12 February 2014

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Hoxnian antlers, bones and a hand axe were discovered at Swanscombe in Kent
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Specially commissioned Neanderthal and Homo sapiens models are eerily life-like and scientifically accurate
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The Furze Platt hand axe, found in Britain in 1919, is around 400,000 years old
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This mammoth jaw was found in Pakefield in East Anglia
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The Clacton Spear was discovered in 1911. It dates back 450,000 years old - the oldest wooden spear found in the British Isles
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Preserved in waterlogged clay, silt and gravel, this pinecone comes from Happisburgh in Norfolk
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A Neanderthal model gazes over the show
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From stone tools and partial skulls to hippo teeth and skeletons, the Natural History Museum's era-crossing new show draws on more than 10 years of research by a large network of scientists.

Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story runs from February 13 - September 28 2014.

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