


suggested the name Caedmon, which I think suits him even if he seems a bit more boisterous than the other famous Caedmon. We don’t know what his name was, what he was like, or even how he died.

Nilsson, even included the man’s gap teeth, which give him a rather charming smile (in my opinion). His body was found in 1968 during highway construction, and his face was forensically reconstructed in 2019. Interestingly, another body (from the Paleolithic) was found with the same type of fossil near the area perhaps this was a long-standing tradition. The circumstances of his death are unclear, as he was healthy and fit, and there was no sign of trauma to his remains he was buried with a “shepherd’s crown” fossil on top of a pile of mollusks. Slonk Hill Man was in his late twenties when he died (in or around the 280s B.C.E).
