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Author:   Sarah Milliken ,  Jill Cook
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.311kg
ISBN:  

9781842170564

ISBN 10:   1842170562
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Variability in primary and secondary technologies of the Later Acheulian in Africa (J Desmond Clark) The shape of handaxes, the structure of the Acheulian world (Clive Gamble and Gilbert Marshall) An Acheulian settlement pattern in the Upper Karoo region of South Africa (C. Garth Sampson) A speculative essay on the role of the Victoria West phenomenon at Canteen Koppie, during the South African Earlier Stone Age (John McNabb) Diamonds, alluvials and artefacts. The Stone Age in Sierra Leone and the Cotton Tree Museum (Phillip Allsworth-Jones) Some notes on fish and fishing in Africa (Ray Inskeep) Europe and Africa during the Palaeolithic (Marcel Otte) The initial peopling of Eurasia and the early occupation of Europe in its Afro-Asian context (Nicholas Rolland) In quest for Palaeolithic human behaviour (Ofer Bar-Yosef) Cleavers: their distribution, chronology and typology (Vadim A. Ranov) Ex Africa aliquid semper novi: the view from Pontnewydd (Stephen Aldhouse-Green) A newly identified Acheulian handaxe type at Tabun Cave: the Faustkeilblatter (Zinovy Matskevitch, Naama Goren-Inbar & Sabine Gaudzinski) The Palaeolithic industries in Korea: chronology and related new find-spots (Hyeong Woo Lee) Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Central Kazakhstan: the Batpak Valley and environs (Norah Moloney, Sandra L. Olsen & Valery Voloshin) Venta Micena, Barranco Leon-5 and Fuentenueva-3: three archaeological sites in the Early Pleistocene deposits of Orce, south-east Spain (Josep Gibert, Lluis Gibert, Carlos Ferrandez-Canyadell, Alfredo Iglesias & Fernando Gonzalez) Excavations at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Rio Quipar and Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo: two sites in Murcia (south-east Spain) with Neanderthal skeletal remains, Mousterian assemblages and late Middle to early Upper Pleistocene fauna (Michael J. Walker) Acheulian handaxe variability in Middle Pleistocene Italy: a case study (Sarah Milliken) Palaeoliths in a lost pre-Anglian landscape (John Wymer) New Lower Palaeolithic finds from the Upper Thames (Terry Hardaker) One step beyond. Flint shortage above the Goring Gap: the example of Wolvercote (Nick Ashton) A river runs through it: a decade of research at Stanton Harcourt (Katherine Scott & Christine M. Buckingham) Recent investigations at Dickett's Field, Yarnhams Farm, Holybourne, Hants. (Julie E. Scott-Jackson & Vicky Winton) The Sackung Hypothesis: a challenge for Palaeolithic prospection (Simon Collcutt) A Lyngby point from Mildenhall, Suffolk, and its implications for the British Late Upper Palaeolithic (Alison J. Roberts & Nick Barton) Out of Abbeville: Sir John Evans, Palaeolithic patriarch and handaxe pioneer (Mark J. White) Old collections - a new resource? The history of some English Palaeolithic collections in Cardiff (Elizabeth A. Walker) A burnt Mesolithic hunting camp on the Mendips: a preliminary report on structural traces excavated on Lower Pitts Farm, Priddy, Somerset (Joan J. Taylor) Derek Roe, A Bibliography

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... the book is a good summary of current thinking in Paleolithic archeology and is recommended reading. It is a marvelous tribute to Derek Roe, who has been such a positive spirit in promoting interest in the archeology of very remote times.'--Hilary J Deacon Lithic Technology, 27 (01/01/2002)

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