Prehistoric Britain
Bones and flint tools found in Norfolk and Suffolk show that homo erectus lived in what is now
England around 700,000 years ago.. At this time, England was linked to mainland Europe by a
large land bridge. The current position of the English Channel was a large river flowing westwards and fed by tributaries that would later become the Thames and the Seine.
Archaeological evidence has shown that England was inhabited by humans long before the rest of the British isles because of its more hospitable climate