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Swanscombe woman
The remains of a skull reveals an early Neanderthal ancestor that lived in Britain. It is now thought that Swanscombe woman lived probably 400,000 years ago. She was a very early member of the Neanderthal lineage. This programme was first shown in 1997.
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