A Middle Palaeolithic Site at Lynford Quarry, Mundford, Norfolk: Interim Statement

Boismier, W.A.; Schreve, Danielle C.; White, Mark; Robertson, Douglas D.; Stuart, Anthony J.; Étienne, Samuel; Andrews, JT; Coope, G. Russell; Field, Michael; Green, F.M.L.; Keen, D. H.; Lewis, Simon G.; French, Charles; Rhodes, E. D.; Schwenninger, J.-L.; Tovey, K.; Donahue, Randolph E.; Richards, Michael P.; O'Connor, Sonia

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“…Around 20% of the identified finds are of Levallois technique and just over 25% of the flakes are diagnostically Levallois manufacture. Both cordiform and sub‐cordiform hand axe types could represent Late Middle Palaeolithic, Mousterian or Acheulean Tradition (MTA) products; the measurements of the Area 240 bifaces are rather large with regional analogues at Lynford Quarry (Boismier et al ., , ). Alternatively, the hand axes may be older, of Lower Palaeolithic or Early Middle Palaeolithic (EMP) origin and be broadly contemporary with the Levallois material (Tizzard et al ., in press).…”

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A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

Tizzard¹,

Bicket²,

Benjamín

et al. 2014

J Quaternary Science

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The potential for Middle Palaeolithic sites to survive beneath the sea in northern latitudes has been established by intensive investigation within Area 240, a marine aggregate licence area situated in the North Sea, 11 km off the coast of Norfolk, England. The fortuitous discovery of bifacial handaxes, and Levallois flakes and cores, led to a major programme of fieldwork and analysis between 2008 and 2013. The artefacts were primarily recovered from Marine Isotope Stage 8/7 floodplain sediments deposited between 250 and 200 ka. It is considered that the hand axes and Levallois products are contemporaneous in geological terms with taphonomically complex sedimentary contexts, as observed in several north‐west European sites. The Early Middle Palaeolithic (EMP) lithics have survived multiple phases of glaciation and marine transgression. The investigations confirm that the artefacts are not a ‘chance’ find, but indicate clear relationships to submerged and buried landscapes that, although complex, can be examined in detail using a variety of existing fieldwork and analytical methods. The palaeogeographical context of the finds also offers expanded interpretations of the distribution of EMP hominins in the southern North Sea, not predictable from onshore archaeological records.

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A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

Tizzard¹,

Bicket²,

Benjamín

et al. 2014

J Quaternary Science

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“…Ashton, 2002; Ashton and Lewis, 2002; Currant and Jacobi, 2002), and to have only been reoccupied around the MIS 4/3 transition, ca. 60 ka BP, represented at sites such as Lynford (Norfolk) and Coygan Cave (Carmarthenshire, Wales) where bout coupé handaxes have been found in deposits of this age (Currant and Jacobi, 2002; Boismier, 2003).…”

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Early Devensian (MIS 5d–5b) occupation at Dartford, southeast England

Wenban-Smith

Bates

Schwenninger

2010

J Quaternary Science

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A deeply buried horizon containing mint-condition flint artefacts was discovered in 2006 during archaeological investigations in advance of major roadworks near Dartford, Kent, in southeast England. The context of the artefacts and the freshness of their condition suggest this horizon represents a buried occupation surface. Optically stimulated luminescence dating places this horizon in the period Marine Isotope Stage 5d-5b, early in the British Devensian glaciation. This paper describes details of the artefacts, their context and dates, and outlines how this apparent occupation fits in with the wider pattern of Neanderthal settlement in Britain and northwest Europe in the later Pleistocene.

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“…Th ey are of unknown date and provenance and were included in this study to allow comparison with the FTIR spectra published by Banerjee et al (2008). Th e six waterlogged-preserved ivory specimens ( Figure 2) were from Lynford Quarry, near Munford in Norfolk UK, excavated in 2002 by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit (Boismier et al, 2003).…”

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An Interim Investigation of the Potential of Vibrational Spectroscopy for the Dating of Cultural Objects in Ivory

O'Connor¹,

Edwards²,

Ali³

2011

archeosciences

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Radiocarbon dating of ivory requires destructive sampling on a scale not always compatible with the requirements of the preservation and curation of cultural objects. The development of a minimally-destructive dating technique is urgently needed. Raman spectroscopy can detect the changes in the organic and inorganic molecular components of ivory that occur with time. It has been suggested that these vibrational spectroscopic changes could be used to assess the relative date of mammoth ivories, assuming that the state of preservation of the ivory is directly related to its age. This paper tests this assumption with specimens of mammoth ivory of known date and burial environment and concludes that the vibrational spectra of ivory cannot in general be used to deduce the age of the specimen.

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A Middle Palaeolithic Site at Lynford Quarry, Mundford, Norfolk: Interim Statement

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A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

Early Devensian (MIS 5d–5b) occupation at Dartford, southeast England

An Interim Investigation of the Potential of Vibrational Spectroscopy for the Dating of Cultural Objects in Ivory

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