Swanscombe

In England’s Thames Valley, near a town called Swanscombe, A. T. Marston, a dentist and amateur paleontologist, uncovered fragments of a human skull together with handaxes and fossilized elephant teeth.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

In England’s Thames Valley, near a town called Swanscombe, A. T. Marston, a dentist and amateur paleontologist, uncovered fragments of a human skull together with handaxes and fossilized elephant teeth.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

"The suggestion for Swanscombe, which is 300 yards seaward from the bridge, would create a mass of poison sky a mile wide.

Kos RSS Feed 2009

The mean maximum temperature in September ranged between 21.8C at Swanscombe, Kent, and 13.3C at Fair Isle in the Northern Isles.

The weather in September 2011

The nation's highest maximum temperature was the 33.1C recorded at Swanscombe in Kent on 27th June, and the lowest was –13.0C at Altnaharra, Sutherland, on 8th January.

The weather in 2011 2012

Instead, arguments erupted over whether Swanscombe Man was allied to modern humans, possibly a descendant of Piltdown Man.2

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The only fossils that seemed to be directly associated with handaxes were the Swanscombe skull from England, and three jaws Camille Arambourg had discovered in Algeria in 1954.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Instead, arguments erupted over whether Swanscombe Man was allied to modern humans, possibly a descendant of Piltdown Man.2

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The only fossils that seemed to be directly associated with handaxes were the Swanscombe skull from England, and three jaws Camille Arambourg had discovered in Algeria in 1954.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

And going on, laughing, to say next will be found dead sims at Swanscombe.

A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988