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Elephas antiquus molar tooth, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum. This now extinct species was twice the size of a modern African elephant, a relative of the woolly mammoth.
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Elephas antiquus molar tooth, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum. This now extinct species was twice the size of a modern African elephant, a relative of the woolly mammoth.
Molar tooth of a straight tusked elephant of the Pleistocene, found in local brick pits © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum

c.900,000 years ago

Our stone age ancestors

Early human species live amongst large mammals which they hunt for food, such as the Straight Tusked Elephant, another migrant from Africa, twice the size of a modern elephant.

Stone hand axe from Lower Paleolithic period, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum
Stone hand axe from Lower Paleolithic period, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum

c.900,000 years ago

Our stone age ancestors

Early human species live amongst large mammals which they hunt for food, such as the Straight Tusked Elephant, another migrant from Africa, twice the size of a modern elephant.

Stone hand axe from Lower Paleolithic period, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum
Stone hand axe from Lower Paleolithic period, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum
Elephas antiquus molar tooth, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum. This now extinct species was twice the size of a modern African elephant, a relative of the woolly mammoth.
K1511 Molar tooth from a Straight Tusked Elephant of the Pleistocene, twice the size of a modern African elephant.