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Boxgrove Palaeolithic site, a Common card
The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is a complex of internationally important Lower Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the former Eartham Quarry, north-east of Boxgrove in West Sussex, dating to around 480,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 145
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,000
Ranked #1,723 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The oldest human remains in Britain, designated "Boxgrove Man", have been recovered from the site, possibly attributable to Homo heidelbergensis.
- Boxgrove is also one of the oldest sites in Europe with direct evidence of hunting and butchering by early humans.
- Only part of the site is protected through designation, one area being a 9.8-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, as well as a Geological Conservation Review site.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site article was read about 8,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Boxgrove Palaeolithic site (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Laura Sánchez-Romero, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Dimitri De Loecker & Matthew Pope (paper) UK G, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
