English Channel land bridge

• English Channel land bridge

64:1.5Dur­ing most of the ice age Eng­land was con­nected by land with France, while later on Africa was joined to Eu­rope by the Si­cil­ian land bridge. At the time of the An­donic mi­gra­tions there was a con­tin­u­ous land path from Eng­land in the west on through Eu­rope and Asia to Java in the east; but Aus­tralia was again iso­lated, which fur­ther ac­cen­tu­ated the de­vel­op­ment of its own pe­cu­liar fauna.

64:1.6950,000 years ago the de­scen­dants of An­don and Fonta had mi­grated far to the east and to the west. To the west they passed over Eu­rope to France and Eng­land. In later times they pen­e­trated east­ward as far as Java, where their bones were so re­cently found—the so-called Java man—and then jour­neyed on to Tas­ma­nia.

• English Channel land bridge

64:2.6Though the re­mains of the Fox­hall peo­ples were the last to be dis­cov­ered in Eng­land, these An­don­ites were re­ally the first hu­man be­ings to live in those re­gions. At that time the land bridge still con­nected France with Eng­land; and since most of the early set­tle­ments of the An­don de­scen­dants were lo­cated along the rivers and seashores of that early day, they are now un­der the wa­ters of the En­glish Chan­nel and the North Sea, but some three or four are still above wa­ter on the En­glish coast.