
Selina Brace
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Oct 15, 2026
The First Britons - Tim Minchin, Prof Chris Stringer and Dr Selina Brace
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Selina BraceGUEST
Well, there is quite a debate, isn't there, Chris, about what this actual species is.

Selina BraceGUEST
They thought it was heidelbergensis, 'cause it's around the right time for heidelbergensis, right place.

Selina BraceGUEST
But Chris has already mentioned this site in Spain, Atapuerca, where a lot of remains have come up from this site, and they had a huge amount of remains of heidelbergensis that they thought were from this site.
11 MINS LATER
Britain's First Dog 
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Tristan HughesHOST
But Selina, what other information about this dog have you been able to gather, have you been able to ascertain from the surviving mandible?

Selina BraceGUEST
So yeah, we sort of like hinted at this a little bit earlier, and this, this is actually the isotopic data that we used to look at the wolf.

Selina BraceGUEST
It, y- we've used it a lot more in the past in sort of like archeological studies to assess past human diets, because as we said, this is looking at those differences in carbon and nitrogen.

Selina BraceGUEST
Nitrogen in particular tells us about tropic level, so the position that an animal occupies in the food chain.

Selina BraceGUEST
So like a high-level carnivore versus a mid-level omnivore versus a low-level sort of herbivore.
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Tristan HughesHOST
What has this new discovery at Gough's Cave, what would you say it's revealed? What new evidence, what new information has it revealed about people coming back to Britain at the end of the Ice Age some 15,000 years ago? What new information has it revealed?
