External Collaboration and Partnerships

Microscopic analysis and advanced imaging of what could be the world’s oldest woodworked artefact, the Clacton spear, puts the skills of its Palaeolithic makers into sharper focus. Archaeologists from the University of Reading and the Natural History Museum have created a ‘biography’ of the ancient tool.

Careful sorting and analysis of mammal bones and teeth from a rare cave system have given scientists the opportunity to fill in missing gaps in the British fossil record.