The scene takes place 500,000 years ago in what is now Boxgrove, near Chichester, Sussex. Homo heidelbergensis is creating a flint axe after the group
The scene takes place 500,000 years ago in what is now Boxgrove, near Chichester, Sussex. Homo heidelbergensis is creating a flint axe after the group has successfully hunted a rhinoceros. He is using a deer antler to finish knapping the axe. In the background are some straight-tusked elephants and some heidelbergensis are throwing stones at a pack of hyenas. The group is quickly butchering the rhinoceros as there are lions in the area.
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