Island Britain – Peninsula Britain: Palaeogeography, Colonisation, and the Lower Palaeolithic Settlement of the British Isles

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Humans in the Hoxnian: habitat, context and fire use at Beeches Pit, West Stow, Suffolk, UK

“…In addition to the Swanscombe area, evidence for this is based on the Clactonian type locality; both sites can be related to the terrace sequence of the River Thames (Bridgland, 1994;Bridgland et al, 1999). The Clactonian has also been recognised in sediments forming a lower terrace of the Thames at sites like Little Thurrock and Purfleet, which have been correlated with late MIS 10/early MIS 9 (Bridgland, 1994;Schreve et al, 2002;White, 2000), suggesting at least two sequential Clactonian immigrations in consecutive climatic cycles (White and Schreve, 2000).…”

“…However, the temporal resolution is insufficient to establish whether they overlapped chronologically or whether there was extremely rapid replacement of the Clactonian by the Acheulian (cf. White and Schreve, 2000).…”

Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity

“…not making handaxes) early in MIS 11 in southeast England (cf. McNabb andAshton, 1992, 1995;Wenban-Smith, 1998;White, 2000;White and Schreve, 2000). Such considerations are of major signifi cance in understanding patterns of human activity and occupation in NW Europe during the Middle Pleistocene.…”

“…Its geochronological age, based on U jTh and TIMS results (average from 10 dates), of 122 ka BP, coupled with its low position within the Somme terrace sequence, makes the evidence from Caours the most convincing to date for a Last Interglacial human presence in Atlantic NW Europe (Antoine et aI., 2006;Antoine et aI., 2007). This implies that the contemporaneous absence from Britain (Sutcliffe, 1995;White and Schreve, 2000) results from insularity rather than refl ecting a wider regional migration pattern.…”

The Early Middle Palaeolithic in Britain: archaeology, settlement history and human behaviour

“…later than commonly believed) breach of the Strait of Dover restricting unhindered access to Britain for the first time (cf. papers in Preece, 1995;White and Schreve, 2000;Bates et al, 2003). Ashton and Lewis (2002) have highlighted an intriguing pattern in the archaeological record of the Middle Thames, the paucity of finds in the Taplow compared to earlier terraces being particularly marked.…”