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    Kents Cavern is a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable both for its archaeological and geological features (as a karst feature in the...
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  • The Kents Cavern 4 maxilla is a human fossil consisting of a right canine, third premolar, and first molar as well as the bone holding them together including...
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    hyenas. An almost entire skull with missing teeth was discovered in Kents Cavern, Devon, by a Mr Mac Enery. The skull was exactly equal in size to that...
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    times. Hand axes found in Kents Cavern have been dated as 40,000 years old, and a maxilla fragment, known as Kents Cavern 4, may be the oldest example...
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    Other key Palaeolithic sites in the UK include Swanscombe, Pontnewydd, Kents Cavern, Paviland, and Gough's Cave. The site is close to a fossil shoreline...
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    his work on caves in Devon and their human occupation. He excavated at Kents Cavern in Devon following earlier work done by Father John MacEnery, and found...
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    found in Kents Cavern in Torquay show that people have inhabited the Torbay area since Paleolithic times. A maxilla fragment known as Kents Cavern 4 may...
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    south-western Britain may be attributed to Magdalenian culture, including Kent's Cavern. Bones, reindeer antlers and animal teeth display pictures carved or...
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    in Britain about 40,000 years ago, as evidenced by remains found in Kents Cavern in Devon, following the disappearance of Neanderthals. Prior to 9,000...
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    Swanscombe Palaeolithic site (category Stone Age sites in Kent)
    paleolithic sites in the UK are Happisburgh, Pakefield, Pontnewydd, Kents Cavern, Paviland and Gough's Cave. Genetic history of the British Isles List...
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    morphotype classifiable under U. deningeri sensu lato has been found in Kents Cavern, England, dating back to latest MIS 12 or earliest MIS 11. In 2013, a...
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    igneous rock. Crystal Cove has a 25 metre wide zone of calcite. Kents Cavern and Brixham Cavern contained fossils of the now extinct woolly rhinoceros and...
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    modern humans in North West Europe is a jawbone discovered in England at Kents Cavern in 1927, which was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years...
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    England, starts some 450,000 years ago with early human artefacts found in Kents Cavern. There is little evidence of any permanent occupation at Torquay until...
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    rods, known as sagaies have been found at Gough's Cave in Somerset and Kent's Cavern in Devon. Twenty eight sites producing Cheddar points are known in England...
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    modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old...
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  • Creswell Crags. In 2008, 2009 and 2011, he co-directed excavations in Kents Cavern. He is a member of the editorial board of World Archaeology journal....
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    In 1825, 1826 and 1829, he investigated the prehistoric remains at Kent's Cavern in Devon, having been shown the cave by Thomas Northmore. MacEnery concluded...
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  • across the world. Kents Cavern – A show cave near Torquay where several archaeological finds were made. Open to the public. Chudleigh Cavern – The first passage...
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    Palaeolithic site Boxgrove Quarry Creswell Crags Gough's Cave Happisburgh Kents Cavern Pakefield Prehistoric Wales Genetic history of the British Isles Geology...
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    the 8th century, when it changed from Dumnonia (Latin) to Defenasċīr. Kents Cavern in Torquay had produced human remains from 30 to 40,000 years ago. Dartmoor...
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    discovered in Apulia in 1964. Europe Great Britain, United Kingdom 44–41 Kents Cavern Human jaw fragment found in Torquay, Devon in 1927 Europe Germany 43–42...
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    Illustration of a Pleistocene wolf cranium that was found in Kents Cavern, Torquay, England...
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  • were excavations by William Pengelly at Brixham Cavern, and with a systematic approach at Kents Cavern (1865–1880). Another major project, which produced...
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  • in Devon. Ash Hole Cavern Boringdon Camp Brixham Battery Castle Close Clovelly Dykes Cranmore Castle Huntsham Castle Kents Cavern Malmsmead Bridge Meldon...
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  • Winterborne Kingston Medieval town of Trellech New cave entrance of Kents Cavern Stone Age colonizers camp on the Island of Jersey Staffordshire Hoard...
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    Illustration of a Pleistocene wolf cranium that was found in Kents Cavern, Torquay, England...
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  • Derbyshire. Blue John Cavern Great Masson Cavern Great Rutland Cavern Oxlow Cavern Peak Cavern Poole's Cavern Speedwell Cavern Thor's Cave, Staffordshire...
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  • possibly only as summer visitors. c. 44,000-41,000 BP Jawbone from Kents Cavern. First evidence of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Britain. c. 40,000...
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    question. The Haua Fteah cave, Libya; Ilsenhöhle [de], Germany; and Kents Cavern, England each contain an object that has been proposed as a Middle Paleolithic...
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