Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement in Wales: with special reference to Dyfed

David, Andrew

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“…Barton 2005; 2009; Barton and Roberts 1996; Barton et al . 2003; Conneller 2007; David 2007; Jacobi 2004; Jacobi and Higham 2009; Pettitt 2008). Inevitably, since southern British finds dominate the Lateglacial record, most researchers have looked to parallels and connections in adjacent parts of the Continent, particularly France and the Low Countries.…”

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An Upper Palaeolithic Flint and Chert Assemblage From Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: First Results

Ballin¹,

Saville²,

Tipping

et al. 2010

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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This paper describes the discovery of the first open-air Upper Palaeolithic site to be found in Scotland, at Howburn, near Biggar in SouthLanarkshire. An account is given of the composition and distribution of the lithic assemblage, which is discussed in terms of its British and north-west European context. Provisional parallels drawn are with the Late Hamburgian (Havelte) sites and assemblages of southern Scandinavia, northern Germany and the Netherlands. There is no absolute dating evidence for the site, but an age in the region of 12,000 14 C yr BP, towards the end of the earlier (Bølling) Lateglacial Interstadial stage, is proposed on the basis of the lithic artefacts.introduction BackgroundAs part of the field-walking campaigns for its 'Prehistory North of Biggar Project', the Biggar Archaeology Group (BAG) investigated an arable field at Howburn Farm, Elsrickle, South Lanarkshire, in southern Scotland. The field was walked by the BAG on four occasions between 2003-2005, producing a range of prehistoric lithic artefacts and potsherds, mainly from the upper eastern part of the field close to a stream course. Thousands of lithic artefacts were recovered, mostly of flint and chert, with occasional pieces of pitchstone and Cumbrian tuff (polished axehead fragments). Diagnostic types and attributes suggested that the field-walked chert artefacts were mainly Later Mesolithic in date and the Arran pitchstone and polished axeheads were of Early Neolithic date. Most of the flint was thought to date to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age period. These typo-chronological estimates seemed supported in part by the recovery of Neolithic pottery (plain carinated bowl sherds as well as impressed and Beaker sherds and Grooved Ware) in and nearby to the field.In 2005 field-walking located a previously unnoticed concentration of flint and chert artefacts in an area approximately 40 m in diameter at one spot on the eastern side of the field. This concentration, marked especially by a higher presence and larger size of artefacts of flint than elsewhere in the field, was assumed to have been brought to the surface because of fresh disturbance by ploughing. Accordingly, an exploratory excavation was undertaken by the BAG OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 29(4) 323-360 2010

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“…3 3 It should be noted that an almost identical example to this piece (which measures 22 x 9 x 3 mm), found among the finds from Nanna's Cave, south‐west Wales (David 1991, fig. 14.7; 2007, fig. 2.13, 8), has been regarded as a Federmesser point, but this is within an otherwise appropriate assemblage context. …”

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An Upper Palaeolithic Flint and Chert Assemblage From Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: First Results

Ballin¹,

Saville²,

Tipping

et al. 2010

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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“…By c. 8000 cal BC they appear to be widespread along this coastline (e.g. East Barns, Howick), even reaching north Wales, perhaps via the northern seaways, as implied by the site at Prestatyn (see also David and Walker 2004). The single early date from Daer Reservoir, an inland high-altitude site in South Lanarkshire, is not included in this analysis as the site has also produced a later date suggesting mixed deposits, and publication is still awaited.…”

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Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland

Passmore¹,

Waddington²

2012

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xxiv Zuasammenfassung xxv Samenvatting xxvi Sammenfatning xxvii Till Tweed Volume I Erratum xxviii Contents Part 1. Setting the Scene vii Contents Calibration The model for the start and end of the Neolithic The overlapping ceramics model Alternative: the abutting model The Milfield henge complex and related sites Taming of the land: transition or revolution? Settlement Post-built structures Neolithic pits Geography of Neolithic settlement in Northumberland Land use and subsistence Technology and material culture Ceramics Lithics Monumentalising the land Neolithic Chalcolithic 6.

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“…In general, Star Carr-type and other Early Mesolithic sites (i.e. pre c. 10.5 ka yrs BP) occur first across North Yorkshire, East Anglia and southern England (Woodman, 2015), appearing very soon after (by at least c. 10 ka yrs BP) on the western shores of England and Wales (Bell, 2007;David, 2007) and in lowland Scotland (Lawson 2001;Saville, 2008). The Irish Early Mesolithic significantly lags the first evidence of Mesolithic populations in England, Scotland and Wales, with the earliest reliable evidence of occupation occurring at 9.75 ka yrs BP (Bayliss and Woodman, 2009) but good evidence for continuous occupation from that point in time onwards.…”

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Evidence of wildfire in the British Isles during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition: Revealing spatiotemporal patterns and controls

Tsakiridou

Hardiman

Grant

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement in Wales: with special reference to Dyfed

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An Upper Palaeolithic Flint and Chert Assemblage From Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: First Results

An Upper Palaeolithic Flint and Chert Assemblage From Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: First Results

Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland

Evidence of wildfire in the British Isles during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition: Revealing spatiotemporal patterns and controls

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