Not Quite British Enough

Britain's world-beating Neanderthals were making and controlling fire some eight times further back than previously thought. A site in Sussex shows evidence of fire being made by a palaeolithic culture some hundreds of thousands of years before the ancestors of Homo sapiens ipsedixit left Africa to subject the Neanderthals to their Great Replacement. One of the archaeological team was careful to guess that our own species would not have fallen behind in the technological race; doubtless because the Neanderthals are thought to have contented themselves with food-sharing, storytelling and other social interactions, rather than with more evolved pastimes such as warfare and witch-hunts.