Middle Palaeolithic Industries of Great Britain

Middle Palaeolithic Industries of Great Britain
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Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015025392237
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Synopsis Middle Palaeolithic Industries of Great Britain by : Sheila D. Coulson

Typologie - Stein/Silex - Paläolithikum.

The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain

The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781317600244
ISBN-13 : 131760024X
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Synopsis The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain by : Derek A. Roe

This book deals with the earliest period of human settlement in Britain, proposing a series of archaeological stages for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods. An introduction on the problems and methods of studying the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene periods leads into the technical argument, a sequence of development derived from evidence of stone artefacts and other signs of human activity at stratified sites in south-east England. Materials from all occupied parts of Britain are related to this basic sequence and, stressing that Britain lay on the edge of the Palaeolithic world, the author also brings in essential evidence from Europe and farther afield. The final chapter suggests the probable way of life of human groups in this period. This broad survey synthesises material from widely scattered sources including museums from all over Britain and has an extensive bibliography. Originally published in 1981.

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
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Publisher : Elsevier
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780444535986
ISBN-13 : 0444535985
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain by : Nick Ashton

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. Study of changes in climate, landscape and biota over the last million years provides the environmental backdrop to understanding human presence and absence together with the development of new technologies. This book brings together the multidisciplinary work of the project. The chapters present the results of new fieldwork and research on old sites from museum collections using an array of new analytical techniques. - Features an up-to-date treatment of the record of human presence in the British Isles during the Palaeolithic period (700,000 - 10,000 years before present) - Takes multidisciplinary approach that includes archaeology, geochemistry, geochronology, stratigraphy and sedimentology - Coincides with the culmination of the AHOB project in 2010, providing a benchmark statement on the record of human occupation in Britain that can be utilized and tested by future research

The British Palaeolithic

The British Palaeolithic
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 616
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ISBN-10 : 9781136496776
ISBN-13 : 1136496777
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Synopsis The British Palaeolithic by : Paul Pettitt

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at understanding the how different hominin societies addressed the issues of life at the edge of the Pleistocene world. Commencing with a consideration of the earliest hominin settlement of Europe, the book goes on to examine the behavioural, cultural and adaptive repertoires of the first human occupants of Britain from an ecological perspective. These themes flow throughout the book as it explores subsequent occupational pulses across more than half a million years of Pleistocene prehistory, which saw Homo heidelbergensis, the Neanderthals and ultimately Homo sapiens walk these shores. The British Palaeolithic fills a major gap in teaching resources as well as in research by providing a current synthesis of the latest research on the period. This book represents the culmination of 40 years combined research in this area by two well known experts in the field, and is an important new text for students of British archaeology as well as for students and researchers of the continental Palaeolithic period.

The British Lower Palaeolithic

The British Lower Palaeolithic
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9781134090556
ISBN-13 : 1134090552
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Synopsis The British Lower Palaeolithic by : John McNabb

Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. In analyzing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic culture, this book represents the latest research in archaeology, population dispersals, geology, climatology, human palaeontoloty, evolutionary psychology, environmental and biological disciplines and dating techniques, along with many other research methods.

The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe

The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe
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Publisher : Leuven University Press
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9789462700987
ISBN-13 : 9462700982
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe by : Ann Van Baelen

A well‐preserved early Middle Palaeolithic site set against a wider northwestern European context The shift from Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe (dated to around 300,000–250,000 years ago) remains poorly understood and underexplored compared to more recent archaeological transitions. During this period, stone tool technologies underwent significant changes but the limited number of known sites and the general low spatio‐temporal resolution of the archaeological record in many cases has impeded detailed behavioural inferences. Brickyard‐quarrying activities at Kesselt‐Op de Schans (Limburg, Belgium) led to the discovery and excavation of a well‐preserved early Middle Palaeolithic level buried beneath a 10 m thick loess-palaeosol sequence. The present volume offers a comprehensive report on the site, dated to around 280,000 years ago, set against a wider northwestern European context. An in‐depth study of the lithic assemblage, including an extensive refitting analysis, provides detailed information on the technological behaviour of prehistoric hominins in the Meuse basin during this crucial time period. Contributors: Jozef J. Hus (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium), Frank Lehmkuhl (RWTH Aachen University), Erik P.M. Meijs (ArcheoGeoLab), Philipp Schulte (RWTH Aachen University), Ann Van Baelen (KU Leuven and University of Cambridge), Philip Van Peer (KU Leuven), Joerg Zens (RWTH Aachen University)

The Emergence of Modern Humans

The Emergence of Modern Humans
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 576
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ISBN-10 : 0801426146
ISBN-13 : 9780801426148
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emergence of Modern Humans by : Paul Mellars

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 583
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ISBN-10 : 9781784910754
ISBN-13 : 1784910759
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Synopsis World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization by : Dan Hicks

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic

A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 709
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ISBN-10 : 9781000603194
ISBN-13 : 1000603199
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Synopsis A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic by : Mark J. White

This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them. Beginning with the earliest known finds, this volume provides a linear and thematic account of the history of the Old Stone Age, or Palaeolithic period, covering major discoveries, interpretations and debates worldwide; a story that takes us from the embers of the Great Fire of London to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers a comprehensive and unique history of archaeological theory and interpretation, seeking to explain how we know what we know about the deep past, and how ideas about it have changed over time, reflecting both scientific and societal change. At its heart lies the quest for an answer to a most curious and sometimes beautiful tool ever made – the handaxe. While focused on the Earlier Palaeolithic period, the book provides a readable account of how ideas about the prehistoric past generally were formed and altered, showing how the wider discipline came to be dominated by a succession of different theoretical ‘paradigms’, each seeking different answers from the same data set. Serving a dual purpose as a historical narrative and as a reference source, this book will be of interest to all students and researchers interested in deep human prehistory and evolution, archaeological theory and the history of archaeology.

Stone Age Prehistory

Stone Age Prehistory
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 0521257735
ISBN-13 : 9780521257732
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Stone Age Prehistory by : G. N. Bailey

Articles by John Clegg and Isabel McBryde annotated separately.