The British Palaeolithic

Author : Paul Pettitt,Mark White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136496776

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The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at understanding the how different hominin societies addressed the issues of life at the edge of the Pleistocene world. Commencing with a consideration of the earliest hominin settlement of Europe, the book goes on to examine the behavioural, cultural and adaptive repertoires of the first human occupants of Britain from an ecological perspective. These themes flow throughout the book as it explores subsequent occupational pulses across more than half a million years of Pleistocene prehistory, which saw Homo heidelbergensis, the Neanderthals and ultimately Homo sapiens walk these shores. The British Palaeolithic fills a major gap in teaching resources as well as in research by providing a current synthesis of the latest research on the period. This book represents the culmination of 40 years combined research in this area by two well known experts in the field, and is an important new text for students of British archaeology as well as for students and researchers of the continental Palaeolithic period.

Author : Paul Pettitt,Mark White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415674553

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The British Palaeolithic by Paul Pettitt,Mark White Pdf

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation to the end of the Ice Age. It fills a major gap in teaching resources as well in research by providing a current synthesis of the latest research on the period.

Author : Nick Ashton,Simon Lewis,Chris Stringer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0444535985

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The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain by Nick Ashton,Simon Lewis,Chris Stringer Pdf

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 : John Hunter,Ian Ralston
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9780415135887

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The Archaeology of Britain by John Hunter,Ian Ralston Pdf

A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to all the archaeological periods covering Britain from early prehistory to the industrial revolution. It provides a one-stop textbook for the entire archaeology of Britain.

Author : John McNabb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134090556

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The British Lower Palaeolithic by John McNabb Pdf

Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. In analyzing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic culture, this book represents the latest research in archaeology, population dispersals, geology, climatology, human palaeontoloty, evolutionary psychology, environmental and biological disciplines and dating techniques, along with many other research methods.

Author : Derek A. Roe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317600244

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The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain by Derek A. Roe Pdf

This book deals with the earliest period of human settlement in Britain, proposing a series of archaeological stages for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods. An introduction on the problems and methods of studying the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene periods leads into the technical argument, a sequence of development derived from evidence of stone artefacts and other signs of human activity at stratified sites in south-east England. Materials from all occupied parts of Britain are related to this basic sequence and, stressing that Britain lay on the edge of the Palaeolithic world, the author also brings in essential evidence from Europe and farther afield. The final chapter suggests the probable way of life of human groups in this period. This broad survey synthesises material from widely scattered sources including museums from all over Britain and has an extensive bibliography. Originally published in 1981.

Author : Dorothy Anne Elizabeth Garrod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036703184

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The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain by Dorothy Anne Elizabeth Garrod Pdf

Author : Derek Arthur Roe,Council for British Archaeology. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030771849

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A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites by Derek Arthur Roe,Council for British Archaeology. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research Committee Pdf

C.B.A. Publication.

Author : John Hunter,Ian Ralston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:639648675

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Archaeology of Britain by John Hunter,Ian Ralston Pdf

Author : John Wymer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Paleolithic period
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033938783

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Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as Represented by the Thames Valley by John Wymer Pdf

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Noyes Data Corporation/Noyes Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014750957

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British Prehistory by Colin Renfrew Pdf

Author : Beccy Scott
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 184217973X

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Becoming Neanderthals by Beccy Scott Pdf

Exploring the development of classically Neanderthal behaviours in Europe between MIS 9-6, this book focuses on the British record, especially stone tools as durable residues of human action.

Author : Anne O'Connor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191526947

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Finding Time for the Old Stone Age by Anne O'Connor Pdf

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age explores a century of colourful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors. In the mid nineteenth century curious stone implements were found alongside the bones of extinct animals. Humans were evidently more ancient than had been supposed - but just how old were they? There were several clocks for Stone-Age (or Palaeolithic) time, and it would prove difficult to synchronize them. Conflicting timescales were drawn from the fields of geology, palaeontology, anthropology, and archaeology. Anne O'Connor draws on a wealth of lively, personal correspondence to explain the nature of these arguments. The trail leads from Britain to Continental Europe, Africa, and Asia, and extends beyond the world of professors, museum keepers, and officers of the Geological Survey: wine sellers, diamond merchants, papermakers, and clerks also proposed timescales for the Palaeolithic. This book brings their stories to light for the first time - stories that offer an intriguing insight into how knowledge was built up about the ancient British past.

Author : Anne O'Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199215478

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Finding Time for the Old Stone Age by Anne O'Connor Pdf

This study looks at the fascinating attempts from the Victorian era to the middle of the 20th century to reconstruct Britain's prehistoric past, to provide a chronology for stone tools and to relate these finds to geological sequences.

Author : Nick Ashton
Publisher : Collins New Naturalist Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : 0008150354

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Early Humans by Nick Ashton Pdf

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment. In this long overdue new book, distinguished archaeologist Nick Ashton uncovers the most recent findings, following the remarkable survival and discovery of bones, stone tools and footprints which allow us to paint a picture of the first human visitors to this remote peninsula of north-west Europe. As part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project and subsequent research, Ashton is involved in an unrivalled collaborative effort involving archaeologists, palaeontologists, and earth scientists at different British institutes, including the Natural History Museum and the British Museum. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores the latest discoveries such as footprints at Happisburgh, Norfolk that are thought to be nearly one million years old, flint artefacts at Pakefield in Suffolk and mammoth remains at West Runton, among others. These remarkable remnants help our quest to unravel the interactions between the changing environments and their ancient human occupants, as well as their lifestyles and migrations. Early humans colonised our remote corner of the European mainland time and again, despite being faced with ice age climates with far-reaching consequences. Setting the scene on the Norfolk coast almost a million years ago, Ashton tells the story of the fauna, flora and developing geography of Britain against the backdrop of an ever-changing climate. Above all, he explores how early people began as brief visitors to this wild remote land, but over time through better ways of acquiring food and developing new technologies, they began to tame, shape and dominate the countryside we see today.