The Pleistocene Deposits and Their Contained Palaeolithic Flint Implements at Foxhall Road, Ipswich.

Boswell, P. G. H.; Moir, J. Reid

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“…In general a mixture of gravels, with a high glaciogenic component, is expected. This corresponds with Moir (1919) who noted artefacts on focal glacial gravels and Boswell & Moir (1923) who recorded the presence of bull-head flint.…”

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On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain

White

1998

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

110

111

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The significance of morphological variation in Acheulean bifaces has been a central issue in Palaeolithic research for well over a century. For much of that period interpretation has been dominated by culturehistorical models and it is only in the past 20 years that other explanatory factors have received adequate attention. This paper examines the combined role of several of these factors -namely raw materials, reduction intensity, and function -on biface variability in the British Isles, with special reference to the two major shapedbased 'tradition' devised by Roe (1967;. First-hand examination of bifaces from 19 assemblages suggests that final biface shape depends largely on the dimensions of the original raw materials and the technofunctional strategies designed to deal with them. Through these observations a new model is generated and tested. This suggests that the patterning in the British Acheulean simply reflects the nature of the resources available at a site and the hominid procurement and technological strategies used to exploit them. According to this model, well-worked ovates with all-round edges were preferentially produced wherever raw materials were large and robust enough to frequently support intensive reduction procedures, usually when obtained from primary flint sources. Assemblages characterised by partially-edged, moderately-reduced pointed forms were only manufactured when smaller, narrower blanks, that imposed restrictions on human technological actions regarding the location and extent of working, were exploited. Such blanks were usually obtained from a secondary flint source, such as river gravel. Thus, Roe's pointed and ovate 'traditions' are seen not as the products of different biface making populations, but as the same broad populations coping with the exigencies of a heterogeneous environment, using different resources in an adaptive, flexible manner.Sample size Foints-.Ovates (remaindercleavers)

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“…Smith 1921, fig. 9;Boswell & Moir 1923). Although mapped exclusively as glacial deposits by Boswell (1927) several suites are present: Kesgrave Gravels (pre-Anglian Thames deposits) and Barham Gravels, Anglian glacio-fluvial deposits (Rose & Allen 1977;Allen 1984, and pers.…”

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On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain

White

1998

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“…The handaxes came mainly from excavations carried out early this century by Miss N. F. Layard (see Layard, 1903Layard, , 1904Layard, and 1906; other important accounts of research at the site are to be found in Smith, R. A., 1921, andBoswell andMoir, 1923. The artifacts occurred in brickearth, in a sequence of deposits overlying a chalky boulder-clay. From the published accounts they must represent either one single lake-side occupation, or else successive occupations over a short period of time.…”

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British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Handaxe Groups

Roe

1969

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

183

198

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In the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1964, the writer presented (Roe, 1964) an interim report on his programme of research on the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic material, describing methods of studying assemblages of handaxes by metrical and statistical analysis, and outlining the first results obtained. The present paper offers a summary of the final results obtained for certain aspects of the same research project, in particular the discerning of various groupings among the 38 handaxe assemblages considered. The Groups which emerge are clusters of sites whose industries are similar in terms of the morphological range and usual degree of refinement of their handaxes.The Thesis for which the research was undertaken was completed in March, 1967 (Roe, 1967), and is available for consultation. It is of course quite impossible to quote in the present paper more than a small part of the evidence upon which the final conclusions depend.

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“…Falling within the Anglian glacial limit, the Foxhall Road Palaeolithic site is a former brick pit within a narrow over-deepened valley in the SE outskirts of Ipswich. It was subjected to archaeological excavation a number of times in the early decades of the 20th century [56,[114][115][116], before being developed for light industry. White and Plunkett [57] revisited the archival material relating to the site, principally at Ipswich Museum and the Suffolk Record Office.…”

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Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK: Amalgamation of Multi-Disciplinary and Citizen-Science Data Sources

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Bain²,

Bridgland

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This paper presents an updated geological reconstruction of the Quaternary evolution of the River Thames at its downstream extremities, close to the North Sea coast, based on new data from multi-disciplinary and citizen-science sources. In this area, the interaction of the Thames with the MIS 12 (Anglian) glaciation is an important part of the Quaternary archive. The Anglian ice sheet, which reached parts of north and east London, was responsible for diverting the Thames southwards into its present course, although the footprint of the maximum ice sheet(s) does not reach the North Sea coast south of Hollesley, Suffolk. Further south, the coastal zone hosts pre-Anglian and early Anglian river-terrace deposits of the pre-diversion Thames system, superimposed upon which are products of later post-Anglian rivers, of both Middle and Late Pleistocene age. On the peninsula between the Stour and Blackwater–Colne estuaries, the lowest and most recent terrace of the pre-diversion Thames includes evidence directly pertaining to the glacial disruption event, for which geochronological data are reported here for the first time. The first post-diversion terrace of the Thames also reaches this peninsula, the river having essentially re-joined its original valley before crossing the alignment of the modern coastline. This terrace passes beneath Clacton-on-Sea, where it includes the type locality of the Clactonian Palaeolithic Industry. The area of interest to this paper, in NE Essex and southern Suffolk, includes a number of interglacial and Palaeolithic sites, the data from which assist in constraining the chronostratigraphy of the sequence. In some cases, there has been uncertainty as to whether these sites represent pre-Anglian environments and hominin occupations, part of the palaeo-Thames sequence, or whether they are the product of later post-Anglian streams, formed after the Thames had migrated southwards. This paper compiles evidence from a wide range of recent sources, including developer-funded archaeological appraisal and citizen-science activities, to explore and update the evidence from sites at Ipswich, Upper Dovercourt and Thorpe-le-Soken, as well as a number of localities associated with the Clacton Channel Deposits (host to the type-Clactonian), amongst others. The resulting new data are placed within the wider context of the Quaternary fluvial archives in southern Britain, with a discussion of how disparate sources of information, including the work of citizen scientists, have contributed.

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The Pleistocene Deposits and Their Contained Palaeolithic Flint Implements at Foxhall Road, Ipswich.

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On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain

On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain

British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Handaxe Groups

Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK: Amalgamation of Multi-Disciplinary and Citizen-Science Data Sources

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