Inhabiting New Landscapes: Settlement and Mobility in Britain After the Last Glacial Maximum

Conneller, Chantal

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00282.x

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“…Recent biogeographical studies show that Britain's mammal community was similar to or indeed richer than those of southern parts of Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium from Lateglacial Interstadial times (Montgomery et al , ). Ahrensburgian sites in northern England have produced cut‐marked remains of horse and reindeer such as Sewell's Cave in North Yorkshire (Lord et al , ) and Flixton II in the Vale of Pickering (Conneller, ). Such evidence is consistent with that showing the importance of these large mammals at Ahrensburgian sites on the continent (Bratlund, ; Baales, ).…”

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A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north‐west of Europe at Rubha Port an t‐Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian‐style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology

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Wicks

Pirie

et al. 2015

J Quaternary Science

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The exact pattern, process and timing of the human re-colonization of northern Europe after the end of the last Ice Age remain controversial. Recent research has provided increasingly early dates for at least pioneer explorations of latitudes above 54˚N in many regions, yet the far north-west of the European landmass, Scotland, has remained an unexplained exception to this pattern. Although the recently described Hamburgian artefacts from Howburn and an assemblage belonging to the arch-backed point complex from Kilmelfort Cave have established at least a sporadic human presence during earlier stages of the Lateglacial Interstadial, we currently lack evidence for Younger Dryas/Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1) activity other than rare stray finds that have been claimed to be of Ahrensburgian affiliation but are difficult to interpret in isolation. We here report the discovery of chipped stone artefacts with technological and typological characteristics similar to those of the continental Ahrensburgian at a locality in western Scotland. A preliminary analysis of associated tephra, pollen and phytoliths, along with microstratigraphic analysis, suggest the artefacts represent one or more episodes of human activity that fall within the second half of GS-1 and the Preboreal period.

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A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north‐west of Europe at Rubha Port an t‐Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian‐style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology

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Pirie

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“…Barton 2005; 2009; Barton and Roberts 1996; Barton et al . 2003; Conneller 2007; David 2007; Jacobi 2004; Jacobi and Higham 2009; Pettitt 2008). Inevitably, since southern British finds dominate the Lateglacial record, most researchers have looked to parallels and connections in adjacent parts of the Continent, particularly France and the Low Countries.…”

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An Upper Palaeolithic Flint and Chert Assemblage From Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: First Results

Ballin¹,

Saville²,

Tipping

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Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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This paper describes the discovery of the first open-air Upper Palaeolithic site to be found in Scotland, at Howburn, near Biggar in SouthLanarkshire. An account is given of the composition and distribution of the lithic assemblage, which is discussed in terms of its British and north-west European context. Provisional parallels drawn are with the Late Hamburgian (Havelte) sites and assemblages of southern Scandinavia, northern Germany and the Netherlands. There is no absolute dating evidence for the site, but an age in the region of 12,000 14 C yr BP, towards the end of the earlier (Bølling) Lateglacial Interstadial stage, is proposed on the basis of the lithic artefacts.introduction BackgroundAs part of the field-walking campaigns for its 'Prehistory North of Biggar Project', the Biggar Archaeology Group (BAG) investigated an arable field at Howburn Farm, Elsrickle, South Lanarkshire, in southern Scotland. The field was walked by the BAG on four occasions between 2003-2005, producing a range of prehistoric lithic artefacts and potsherds, mainly from the upper eastern part of the field close to a stream course. Thousands of lithic artefacts were recovered, mostly of flint and chert, with occasional pieces of pitchstone and Cumbrian tuff (polished axehead fragments). Diagnostic types and attributes suggested that the field-walked chert artefacts were mainly Later Mesolithic in date and the Arran pitchstone and polished axeheads were of Early Neolithic date. Most of the flint was thought to date to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age period. These typo-chronological estimates seemed supported in part by the recovery of Neolithic pottery (plain carinated bowl sherds as well as impressed and Beaker sherds and Grooved Ware) in and nearby to the field.In 2005 field-walking located a previously unnoticed concentration of flint and chert artefacts in an area approximately 40 m in diameter at one spot on the eastern side of the field. This concentration, marked especially by a higher presence and larger size of artefacts of flint than elsewhere in the field, was assumed to have been brought to the surface because of fresh disturbance by ploughing. Accordingly, an exploratory excavation was undertaken by the BAG OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 29(4) 323-360 2010

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“…This smaller lake system preserves a unique combination of palaeoenvironmental archives deposited during the LGIT, and was situated in close proximity to a unique suite of Mesolithic occupation sites around the Star Carr area (Clark, 1954;Day, 1996;Conneller and Schadla-Hall, 2003;Conneller et al, 2012). This archaeology, found in PF shoreline deposits, indicates multiple periods of human occupation during the early Holocene as well as evidence for earlier human colonisation during the Windermere Interstadial (Conneller, 2007). Previous archaeological and highresolution basin surveys have primarily focussed on mapping marginal deposits on the palaeolake shorelines, the basin fill sediments being reconstructed at much lower resolution ( Fig.…”

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The evolution of Palaeolake Flixton and the environmental context of Star Carr, NE. Yorkshire: stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) lacustrine sequences

Palmer

Matthews

Candy

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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Inhabiting New Landscapes: Settlement and Mobility in Britain After the Last Glacial Maximum

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A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north‐west of Europe at Rubha Port an t‐Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian‐style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology

A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north‐west of Europe at Rubha Port an t‐Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian‐style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology

An Upper Palaeolithic Flint and Chert Assemblage From Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: First Results

The evolution of Palaeolake Flixton and the environmental context of Star Carr, NE. Yorkshire: stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) lacustrine sequences

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