In this episode Prof. Iain Stewart unravels the story of human history and explores how the human story is fundamentally evidenced in the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark. He is guided on this journey by leading experts in this field, Prof. Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Evolution at the Natural History Museum London, and Prof. Paul Pettitt who is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Durham University.
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‘I first visited Kent's Cavern as a 5-year-old, with my parents, and it helped to spark my life-long interest in prehistory. I'm delighted to have this chance to show how Kent's Cavern, as part of the English Riviera Geopark, is continuing to inform both scientists and the public about our ancient past and why that is still relevant to us today.’
Prof. Chris Stringer is Research Leader in Human Evolution at the Natural History Museum and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
‘The Kent's cavern early humans Geopark is world-renowned. It's always been a great honour to be involved academically and socially in research into this important Pleistocene resource which, like Tutankhamun's tomb, just keeps on repaying modern research. As a place to communicate the importance of the Pleistocene to the public I can think of nothing better.'
Prof. Paul Pettitt is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Durham University