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Author : A. J. Stuart
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCAL:B4151978
Author : A. J. Stuart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 083576267X
Author : R.L. Jones,D.H. Keen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401115209
Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the literature on Pleistocene events in the British Isles.
Author : R. G. West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B5022485
Author : J. Alan Holman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195354669
The Pleistocene epoch or Ice Age, an extended period of advancing and retreating ice sheets, is characterized by striking climatic oscillations and sea level fluctuations. This age saw the rise and spread of humans and a great extinction of large mammals by the end of the epoch; in fact, the world today is essentially the product of dramatic changes that took place in the Pleistocene. This book, a companion to the author's Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America, discusses the Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles in Britain and the European continent eastward through present-day Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Yugoslavian republics, and Greece. The book begins with a general discussion of the Pleistocene in Britain and Europe with an emphasis on regional terms used to define Pleistocene chronological events. Next, a look at the pre-Pleistocene herpetofauna of the study area sets the stage for a discussion of Pleistocene herpetofauna. A significant section of the book consists of a "bestiary," a series of annotated taxonomic accounts of Pleistocene herpetological taxa from the region. Following this is the interpretive section, beginning with a discussion of herpetological species as paleoenvironmental indicators and continuing with an analysis of herpetological population adjustments to Pleistocene events in Britain and Europe, and then with a discussion of extinction patterns in the region. Finally, the author compares Pleistocene herpetological events in Europe with those in North America. This volume and its companion together provide an up-to-date and comprehensive review of Pleistocene herpetofaunas across a significant portion of the Northern Hemisphere.
Author : Charles Turner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000150568
These papers show how new research in the classic areas and Germany, but particularly in Eastern Europe, is radically altering views of the stratigraphy and palaeocology of the early-middle Pleistocene period, showing that major glaciations did not begin only in the late- middle Pleistocene.
Author : Nick Ashton,Simon Lewis,Chris Stringer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444535986
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. Study of changes in climate, landscape and biota over the last million years provides the environmental backdrop to understanding human presence and absence together with the development of new technologies. This book brings together the multidisciplinary work of the project. The chapters present the results of new fieldwork and research on old sites from museum collections using an array of new analytical techniques. Features an up-to-date treatment of the record of human presence in the British Isles during the Palaeolithic period (700,000 - 10,000 years before present) Takes multidisciplinary approach that includes archaeology, geochemistry, geochronology, stratigraphy and sedimentology Coincides with the culmination of the AHOB project in 2010, providing a benchmark statement on the record of human occupation in Britain that can be utilized and tested by future research
Author : Peter Vincent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000699814
Originally published in 1990, The Biogeography of the British Isles is devoted to the biogeography of the British Isles and surrounding shelf seas. Bringing together a wealth of diverse information, it is thoroughly referenced and well illustrated, and will be invaluable to students of geography, environmental science, ecology, botany, and zoology. The book traces the development of British biogeography over the last two centuries, examining key topics such as ecosystems, habitats, and niches in the context of plant and animal distribution. The book gives a detailed account of the development of biogeographical mapping and recording systems, and describes modern-day distributions, both in the countryside and in urban areas against the backcloth of human activities.
Author : Christopher Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134908844
For 7,000 years after the last ice age, the people of the British Isles subsisted by hunting wild game and gathering fruits of the forest and foreshore. Belonging to the late Upper Palaelithic and Mesolithic periods, these hunter-gatherers have hitherto been viewed mainly in terms of stone tool typologies. late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles departs from this conventional approach, reassessing the archaeological evidence and placing it within a wider ecological and geographical context. This well illustrated study, which includes case studies, maps and photographs, provides a balanced approach to the study of a period that demands multi-disciplinary treatment. It outlines a range of considerations that have a bearing on the study of early societies in the British Isles, and also forms a useful guide to communiites themselves as represented by known archaeological sites.
Author : Philip Leonard Gibbard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521402093
A detailed investigation of a classic area in British Pleistocene geology.
Author : C. King
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862397286
This Special Report comprehensively describes the stratigraphy and correlation of the Tertiary (Paleogene–Neogene) rocks of NW Europe and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean and is the summation of fifty years of research on Tertiary sediments by Chris King. His book is essential reading for all geologists who deal with Tertiary rocks across NW Europe, including those in the petroleum industry and geotechnical services as well as academic stratigraphers and palaeontologists. Introductory sections on chronostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and other methods of dating and correlation are followed by a regional summary of Tertiary sedimentary basins and their framework and an introduction to Tertiary igneous rocks. The third and largest segment comprises the regional stratigraphic summaries. Regions covered are the North Sea Basin, onshore areas of southern England and the eastern English Channel area, the North Atlantic margins (including non-marine basins in the Irish Sea and elsewhere) and the Paleogene igneous rocks of Scotland.
Author : D.R. Bridgland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401107051
This volume describes important sites in the Pleistocene deposits of the Thames terrace system laid down by the Thames and its tributaries. It correlates the Thames sequence with deposits found elsewhere in Britain, on the European continent and on the ocean floor.
Author : R. G. West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521593972
CD-ROM contains: Electronic version of the cold stage flora.
Author : David R. Bridgland,Andy Howard,Mark J. White,Tom S. White
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782970262
This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent. It provides detailed descriptions of the Pleistocene sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and related drainage systems - a sedimentary record that spans a period of approximately half a million years - and the biostratigraphical and archaeological material preserved therein. Significant new data are presented from recently discovered sites of geological and archaeological importance, including previously unrecognised fluvial deposits, as well as novel analyses, such as mathematical modelling of fluvial incision as recorded by the river terrace deposits. In combination with a thorough review of the literature on the Trent, these new data have contributed to revised chronostratigraphical and palaeogeographical frameworks for central England and revealed the complexity of the Pleistocene fluvial and glacial records in this region. The fragmentary Trent terrace sequence is an important element of wider reconstructions of Pleistocene palaeodrainage in Britain, providing a link between the records preserved in the English Midlands and those in East Anglia.
Author : Simon J. M. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135106591
Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal" remains, and the science of "zoo-archaeology" has come into being. What was the nature of the environment in which our ancestors lived? In which season were sites occupied? When did our earliest ancestors start to hunt big game, and how efficient were they as hunters? Were early humans responsible for the extinction of so many species of large mammals 10-20,000 years ago? When, where and why were certain animals first domesticated? When did milking and horse-riding begin? Did the Romans influence our eating habits? What were sanitary conditions like in medieval England? And could the terrible pestilence which afflicted the English in the seventh century AD have been plague? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. The book also describes the nature and development of bones and teeth, and some of the methods used in zoo-archaeology.
