A historic cathedral city was home to some of Britain’s earliest humans more than half a million years before writer Geoffrey Chaucer immortalized it in verse in his Canterbury Tales.
Archaeological finds made on the outskirts of Canterbury in Kent, on England’s shoreline along the English Channel, confirm the presence of people in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in northern Europe.
The breakthrough, involving controlled digs and radiometric dating, comes a century after stone tool artifacts were first uncovered at the site.
