I was staying in a hotel in South Kensington a couple of weeks ago, and nipped over to the museum of natural history, where they had a 'millions years BC' exhibition.
They had done it, with the sounds of the wilderness, and filmed backdrops of forests on the walls as you navigated through, to try and make you feel as though you were actually there. It was temperate forest, with hyenas calling and smilodons and wolves, very atmospheric.
There was a 40,000 year old Neanderthal skull, from the UK, [a lot of us in the UK have 1-3% neanderthal DNA]
But very interesting was the evidence of homo heidelbergensis, who were living and hunting in Britain a staggering one million years ago. They had stone tools, axes, and hunted large game like rhinoceros.
They looked very much like we do. They are the ancestors of both neanderthals and homosapiens. We evolved from them.
Took a few photos with the phone.
They had done it, with the sounds of the wilderness, and filmed backdrops of forests on the walls as you navigated through, to try and make you feel as though you were actually there. It was temperate forest, with hyenas calling and smilodons and wolves, very atmospheric.
There was a 40,000 year old Neanderthal skull, from the UK, [a lot of us in the UK have 1-3% neanderthal DNA]
But very interesting was the evidence of homo heidelbergensis, who were living and hunting in Britain a staggering one million years ago. They had stone tools, axes, and hunted large game like rhinoceros.
They looked very much like we do. They are the ancestors of both neanderthals and homosapiens. We evolved from them.
Took a few photos with the phone.
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