Gallery | Ancient Leviathan | Happisburgh | happisburgh_map

80,000 years ago, the Thames flowed northwards and emptied into the sea at Norfolk, 150 km north of its current estuary. The red dots on the bigger map show the positions of where key archaeological sites from the same time period – Happisburgh is the only one above the line of the Alps and the Pyrenees. (Photo by Simon Parfitt)

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