Chuck Bryant

Yeah, I mean, we mentioned there were people there, and there were.

The first hominids there, well, they weren't human, actually, so I sort of misspoke, but they were called Homo antecessor, which was the predecessor to humans, and they were there about 800,000 years ago.

And then finally, you know, we mentioned that Neanderthal fragment, skull fragment.

They moved in when Doggerland was a tundra.

And I guess it was 2001 when they found that skull fragment.

This is off the coast of the Netherlands.

And they named this one.

I love it when they name these, you know, ancient humans.

But I'm not even going to try and pronounce it.

It's K-R-I-J-N.

I'm not sure how you would say that in Dutch.

The J's got to be silent, right?

Yeah, it does something weird.

But they reckoned that fossil.

They dated it to about 70,000 years old.

And they said this guy probably ate a lot of meat as his diet, maybe some fish, but definitely was chowing down on some pretty good food.

And then, you know, they found all sorts of stuff over the years on the coast of the Netherlands, just like a bone point or an axe or any kind of carved, pointed arrowhead or harpoon head would just wash up on shore.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, you know, for a while they were migrating around, following the animals, going where the food was.