Mapping the Human Record: Population Change in Britain During the Early Palaeolithic

Ashton, Nick; Lewis, Simon G.; Hosfield, Robert

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-53597-9.00004-2

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“…In the North of Europe, several sites such as Brandon Field, Maidscross Hill, and Warren Hill (Great-Britain) are dated to MIS 15 and MIS 13 (Bytham river sediments, Roe, 1981;Bridgland et al, 2006;Ashton et al, 2011;Ashton and Lewis, 2012). All the assemblages are made on locally available flint nodules from fluvial gravels.…”

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The Acheulean workshop of la Noira (France, 700 ka) in the European technological context

Moncel

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Voinchet

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Quaternary International

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The Acheulean workshop of la Noira (France, 700 ka) in the European technological context

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Quaternary International

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“…Otherwise, local extinction was the likely fate of many hominin groups. As temperatures improve with the return of interglacial conditions, hominins reoccupied Britain bringing new practices with them (Ashton and Lewis, 2002;Ashton et al, 2011;Bridgland and White, 2015;White, 2000;White and Schreve, 2000). Within the last two decades the British Middle Pleistocene interglacial record has been refined considerably to the point where we can now isolate stadials and inter-stadials within specific glacial/interglacial climatic histories (Ashton et al, 2008;Bates et al, 2014;Moncel et al, 2015).…”

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From side to side: Symmetry in handaxes in the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic

McNabb

Cole

Hoggard

2018

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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The Acheulean is defined by its iconic tool type, the handaxe, and a suite of other large cutting tools (LCTs). These tools retain information on technical and procedural practices concerned with the manufacture of these butchery tools and carcass processing knives. The Acheulean straddles the period in which more ancient hominin species (H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis) give way to archaic H. sapiens (sensu lato) amongst whom the ancestor of modern humans may be found. The roots of modern behaviour may be present in these handaxe making hominin species, and the handaxes themselves, through proxy data such as bilateral symmetry, may chart hominin cognitive evolution as researchers such as T. Wynn and F. Coolidge (2016), amongst others, have argued. But the search for the earliest consistent application of symmetry, and its persistence thereafter has been hampered by the lack of large datasets, spanning the temporal extent of the Acheulean, and analysed through a single consistent methodology.Our paper has two aims. The first, and in the absence of a large comparative data set of earlier Acheulean handaxes, is to assess the degree to which symmetry is consistently applied to the making of handaxes in the later Acheulean (=<0.5 mya), a time when bilateral planform symmetry should already be an integral component in handaxe making. The dataset we select is the British Acheulean from MIS 13 -MIS 3/4. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time handaxe symmetry has been assessed on a large body of British Acheulean handaxes. Our second aim is to present a relatively simple and low tech methodology for the analysis of handaxes

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“…Pleistocene fluvial terraces provide a fundamental resource for examining such questions of hominin occupation because they can produce coarse-resolution, time averaged records of hominin presence (e.g. Wymer 1968Wymer , 1999Bridgland 1994Bridgland , 2000Bridgland , 2001Bridgland et al 2004Bridgland et al , 2006Hosfield 1999;Ashton & Lewis 2002;Mishra et al 2007;Brown 2008;Ashton & Hosfield 2010;Ashton et al 2011;Briant et al 2012). The fluvial archive of the Solent River is therefore important as both the major source of Palaeolithic archaeological material in the region and as a framework for contextualising that material.…”

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“…Roe 1981Roe , 2001Wenban-Smith 2004;Bridgland and White 2014;White 2015). The stratigraphic relationship between the handaxe assemblage and the smaller Levallois assemblage at Warsash is significant in understanding the nature of early Middle Palaeolithic occupation, both in the Solent region and in Britain in general (Ashton and Hosfield 2010;Ashton et al 2011;Pettitt & White 2012;Ashton et al 2015;Davis et al 2016). Burkitt et al (1939) provided brief notes on the geology at Warsash as seen in a section at Newbury's Pit (Figure 2).…”

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The stratigraphy and chronology of the fluvial sediments at Warsash, UK: implications for the Palaeolithic archaeology of the River Test

Hatch

Davis

Lewis

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Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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This paper reports new fieldwork at Warsash which clarifies the terrace stratigraphic framework of the Palaeolithic archaeology of the region. Sections were recorded in former gravel pits and at coastal locations, supplemented by the use of ground penetrating radar and luminescence dating techniques. The region's extensive borehole archive was also analysed to produce a revised terrace stratigraphy at Warsash and for the Test valley as a whole. At Warsash, some of the sediments previously identified as the Mottisfont/Lower Warsash Terrace are reassigned to the Hamble, Belbin/Upper Warsash and Ganger Wood/Mallards Moor Terraces. A luminescence dating programme, using test procedures not utilised in earlier dating studies in the region, yielded age estimates for the Hamble and Mottisfont/Lower Warsash Terraces at Warsash and also highlighted the complicated nature of the fluvial sediments of the River Test, suggesting that published luminescence ages for these deposits should be treated with some caution. This study indicates that the data used to construct terrace stratigraphies also requires careful assessment. The use of bedrock height and sediment thickness data produces more coherent long profile correlations than those produced by terrace surface data alone. The revised terrace stratigraphy provides the framework for the Palaeolithic archaeology at Warsash and clarifies correlations within and between archaeologically important sediments of the Test Valley, enabling it to contribute to discussions on the Lower-Middle Pleistocene settlement history of southern Britain.

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Mapping the Human Record: Population Change in Britain During the Early Palaeolithic

Cited by 35 publications

References 43 publications

The Acheulean workshop of la Noira (France, 700 ka) in the European technological context

The Acheulean workshop of la Noira (France, 700 ka) in the European technological context

From side to side: Symmetry in handaxes in the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic

The stratigraphy and chronology of the fluvial sediments at Warsash, UK: implications for the Palaeolithic archaeology of the River Test

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