The Trent Valley Palaeolithic Project (TVPP), funded by English Heritage as part of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, is examining the archaeological and geological histories of the river between c.500,000 and 35,000 years ago. Work is being conducted by a research team from the Departments of Archaeology and Geography at Durham University and the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, working in close collaboration with local quarry companies, museums and a range of other specialists. Using a variety of scientific techniques, the project has begun to reconstruct the natural landscapes of the region including the types of climate, vegetation and animals that would have been encountered by early humans, and to explore their settlement history and behaviour through the stone tools they left behind.

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