A Lance-point of Upper Palaeolithic type from Victoria Cave, Settle, Yorkshire

Jackson, J. Wilfrid

doi:10.1017/s0003581500017844

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“…The area beyond the furthest point of the 1870s excavations in Chamber B is the most likely find spot for the Late Upper Palaeolithic grooved double-bevelled antler point discovered in 1931 (Jackson, 1945;Hedges et al, 1992). It was found in three pieces spread over an area about 3 ft (0.9 m) square sealed beneath stalagmite flowstone.…”

Section: The Deposits In Chamber Bmentioning

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People and large carnivores as biostratinomic agents in Lateglacial cave assemblages

Lord¹,

O'Connor

Siebrandt

et al. 2007

J Quaternary Science

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Biostratinomic analysis (processes acting between death and burial) of Lateglacial mammal bone assemblages from three caves in northern England demonstrates the value of re-examining archived assemblages. With AMS radiocarbon dating of key specimens, these assemblages shed light on the ecology of a region at the northern limit of Lateglacial human activity in Britain. During the Lateglacial Interstadial bears, wolves and humans expanded into the region, bears by around 12 500 14 C yr BP, and the earliest evidence for human presence is around 12 300 14 C yr BP. At Victoria Cave, wolf activity included predation and scavenging of large ungulates and scavenging bear carcasses apparently resulting from hibernation deaths. The scavenging of bear carcasses is possibly confined to the first part of the Lateglacial Interstadial, whereas evidence for wolf scavenging large ungulates increases later in the Interstadial, after about 11 800 14 C yr BP, perhaps reflecting changes in the productivity of the Lateglacial ecosystem, and in human subsistence patterns. The assemblage from Sewell's Cave is wolf den debris from the very end of the Lateglacial Interstadial around 10 800 14 C yr BP, whilst that from Kinsey Cave is dominated by large-bodied carnivores, and is argued to have a quite different taphonomic history.

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Section: The Deposits In Chamber Bmentioning

confidence: 94%

People and large carnivores as biostratinomic agents in Lateglacial cave assemblages

Lord¹,

O'Connor

Siebrandt

et al. 2007

J Quaternary Science

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Creswellian Site at Brigham, East Yorkshire

Manby¹

1966

Antiq. J.

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In the spring of 1962 Mr. W. Turner, the owner of a gravel pit at Brigham, noticed the unusual occurrence of flint flakes in the top soil being removed to extend his pit. He drew the attention of Messrs. C. & E. Grantham to the site and kindly granted permission for an excavation. The greater part of the flint site had been removed by this time and only a very small portion remained for excavation. The top soil from the site had been dumped on the floor of the pit and it was possible to recover the flint assemblage from it. The arduous task of examining the dumped soil and the remaining portion of the site was carried out during 1962 and 1963 by Messrs. C. & E. Grantham assisted by Messrs. B. Brigham, T. Clarke, P. Edgar, C. Graham, M. R. Petch, and the late T. W. Wadsworth.

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