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.
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.
D. O'Brien and S. Tiffany, eds. pp. 13–31. Berkeley: University of California Press. Thomas, J., 1996 Neolithic houses in Mainland Britain and Ireland: a sceptical view. In Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and Beyond.
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.
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 ...
This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them.
An Introduction from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Industrial Revolution John Hunter, Ian Ralston. have the major social issues of the time. ... The industrial archaeology of Northern Ireland. London: HMSO. Trinder, B., 1994.
This is a comprehensive review of the sites yielding evidence of the Lower Paleolithic in Britain.
This book will serve as an essential text for anyone studying the period: undergraduate and graduate students, specialists in the field and community archaeology groups.
This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them.
The Old Stone Age in Wales , in Foster , I. Ll . , and Daniel , I. G. ( Eds . ) . Prehistoric and Early Wales . ... Mitchell , G. F. , Penny , L. F. , Shotton , F. W. , and West , R. G. 1973. The correlation of Quaternary deposits in ...