Palaeolithic Spear Found on School Building Site
Last week, a Palaeolithic hand axe/flint tool was found during a routine archaeological survey by University College London (UCL) on the site of Temple Hill Primary School. We are managing a project on the site to build a permanent home for an additional full form entry.
The human history of the Dartford area spans more than 400,000 years, and archaeology reaches back almost to the frontier of human existence in Western Europe. The Palaeolithic era is the prehistoric period when stone tools were made by humans.
People generally lived a nomadic lifestyle during this time. Small groups of humans who frequented the Dartford area settled close to the banks of what we now know as the River Thames, which is at the foot of Temple Hill. They would have used the flint tool primarily for hunting herds of wild animals from place-to-place, trapping them at their watering holes.
This will make an interesting lesson for the school’s students when they return in September, and a minor headache for our project manager and Kier, the contractor to get the project back on schedule for delivery by summer 2018.
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