Human footprints in UK from 1 M years ago! But UK was not at this time an island!

"Using foot length to stature ratios, the hominins are estimated to have been between ca. 0.93 and 1.73 m in height, suggestive of a group of mixed ages. The orientation of the prints indicates movement in a southerly direction on mud-flats along the river edge."
"Recent analyses suggest a small group of perhaps five adults and children walking along the mudflats of a large river, about a million years ago"

Amazing human footprints 

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088329

They lived near the sea. Coastal origin of human species? An implied reference to Michael Crawford!

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/featured_project_happisburgh.aspx

http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2014/02/10/01008-20140210ARTFIG00321-des-traces-de-pas-vieilles-de-800000-ans-en-angleterre.php

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/britain-million-years/index.html