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Approximate age:425,000 years old=average of minimum (0.4 Ma) and maximum (0.45 Ma)
Date based on: Stratigraphic correlation to OIS 11 and OIS 12; Thermoluminescence; Uranium series See map of sites with similar ages
Dating reference: Preece, R. C., Gowlett, J. A. J., Parfitt, S. A., Bridgland, D. R., & Lewis, S. G. (2006). Humans in the Hoxnian: habitat, context and fire use at Beeches Pit, West Stow, Suffolk, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21(5), 485-496.; Gowlett, J. A. J. (2006). The early settlement of northern Europe: fire history in the context of climate change and the social brain. CR Palevol, 5, 299-310.
Hominids:
Archaeology:Acheulean Fire
Important specimens: Earliest fire in UK
Notes:
Location: Thetford Forest, Suffolk, England, Great Britain
Map location/coordinates reference: Wood, B. (Ed.). (2011). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set: Wiley-Blackwell.
Key references: Wood, B. (Ed.). (2011). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set: Wiley-Blackwell.
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