JMT Summer Talks: British Prehistory

JMT Summer Talks: British Prehistory

Jaywick Martello TowerJaywick Sands, Essex
Overview

Join us at Jaywick Martello Tower on Tuesday evenings throughout the Summer for our Summer Talks season.

Join us for a fascinating journey into the earliest chapters of human history, led by one of the UK’s foremost prehistoric archaeologists. Professor Nick Ashton will reveal groundbreaking discoveries that are transforming our understanding of the first people to inhabit Britain and northern Europe.


Fire, Culture and Society in Britain 400,000 years ago - The earliest known evidence of humans deliberately creating and controlling fire at Barham, pushing back the known date of human fire-making by over 350,000 years.


First Pioneers in Northern Europe 900,000 years ago - the Happisburgh Footprints, the earliest evidence of human presence in northern Europe, attributed to Homo antecessor.


Doors open at 6.00pm. Talks are £3 entry and can be booked online here.

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Highlights

  • 1 hour
  • In person
  • Free parking
  • Doors at 6 PM

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 2 days before event

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Jaywick Martello Tower

The Promenade

Belsize Avenue Jaywick Sands CO15 2LF

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