Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) The Ancient Human
Occupation of Britain research project, a five-year programme
funded by the Leverhulme Trust for just over £1.2 million, began
in October 2001, and will investigate the timing and nature of
human occupation of the British Isles during the Quaternary. The
project brings together a range of specialists, including
archaeologists, palaeontologists, stratigraphers,
sedimentologists and isotope analysts from a core of British
universities and national museums. The central purpose of the
programme is to provide a detailed settlement history of Britain
over at least a 500,000 year period, by re-peopling Britain with
its former inhabitants, revealing aspects of their technology
and behaviour and exploring how and why these changed over time,
reconstructing the environments in which they lived and the
resources that these provided, and documenting the animals that
shared their landscape. By taking this broad sweep in time
within a single sub-region of Europe,