Terrestrial environments during MIS 11: evidence from the Palaeolithic site at West Stow, Suffolk, UK

Preece, Richard C.; Parfitt, Simon A.; Bridgland, David R.; Lewis, Simon G.; Rowe, Peter; Atkinson, T. C.; Candy, Ian; Debenham, Nick; Penkman, Kirsty; Rhodes, E. J.; Schwenninger, J.-L.; Griffiths, Huw I.; Whittaker, John E.; Gleed-Owen, Christopher P.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.11.016

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“…Critics of this view (e.g. Roebroeks et al 1992) have pointed out that interglacial occupation could be detected throughout Europe, and there is now clear evidence for occupation within forest environments as early as MIS 11 (11c), including preserved hearths from which burnt artefacts have been recovered as part of a primary--context Acheulian assemblage, at Beeches Pit, West Stow, Suffolk (Preece et al 2006(Preece et al , 2007Gowlett et al 2005; Fig. 1).…”

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Fluvial archives as a framework for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: patterns of British artefact distribution and potential chronological implications

Bridgland

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2014

Boreas

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. With the adoption of an 'expanded chronology' for the Middle Pleistocene, based on the greater number of warm and cold episodes evident in the marine oxygen isotope record from deep ocean cores, has come the recognition of a meaningful progression of artefact types, something that could not be achieved with reference to the previous 'compressed chronology'. In Britain, at least, it has been established that Levallois knapping techniques appeared in MIS 9-8, that bout coupé handaxes are indicative of MIS 3 and, rather more tentatively, that assemblages with twisted ovate handaxes in significant numbers represent MIS 11 occupation. Added to these key markers, it is now possible to suggest that further tool types occur preferentially in deposits of particular age: assemblages with significant proportions of cleavers and 'ficron' handaxes appear to be correlated with deposits formed at around the time of the MIS 9 interglacial. This newly recognized patterning within the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic record differs markedly from the previous use, in the mid--20 th

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Section: The Lower-middle Palaeolithic Transitionmentioning

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Fluvial archives as a framework for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: patterns of British artefact distribution and potential chronological implications

Bridgland

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2014

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“…However, based on evidence from long terrestrial and marine vegetation records from the Massif Central (France; Reille et al, 2000) and off Iberia (Desprat et al, 2005), there is now a substantial body of research that indicates a land-sea correlation of MIS 11c with the Holsteinian interglacial (e.g. de Beaulieu et al, 2001;Kukla, 2003;Nitychoruk et al, 2005Nitychoruk et al, , 2006Müller and Pross, 2007;Preece et al, 2007).…”

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Sub-decadal- to decadal-scale climate cyclicity during the Holsteinian interglacial (MIS 11) evidenced in annually laminated sediments

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Abstract.To unravel the short-term climate variability during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11, which represents a close analogue to the Holocene with regard to orbital boundary conditions, we performed microfacies and time series analyses on a ∼3200-yr-long record of annually laminated Holsteinian lake sediments from Dethlingen, northern Germany. These biogenic varves comprise two sub-layers: a light sub-layer, which is controlled by spring/summer diatom blooms, and a dark sub-layer consisting mainly of amorphous organic matter and fragmented diatom frustules deposited during autumn/winter. Time series analyses were performed on the thickness of the light and dark sub-layers. Signals exceeding the 95 % and 99 % confidence levels occur at periods that are near-identical to those known from modern instrumental data and Holocene palaeoclimatic records. Spectral peaks at periods of 90, 25, and 10.5 yr are likely associated with the 88-, 22-and 11-yr solar cycles, respectively. This variability is mainly expressed in the light sublayer spectra, suggesting solar influence on the palaeoproductivity of the lake. Significant signals at periods between 3 and 5 yr and at ∼6 yr are strongest expressed in the dark sub-layer spectra and may reflect an influence of the El Niño-Correspondence to: A. Koutsodendris (koutsodendris@em.uni-frankfurt.de) Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) during autumn/winter. Our results suggest that solar forcing and ENSO/NAO-like variability influenced central European climate during MIS 11 similarly to the present interglacial, thus demonstrating the comparability of the two interglacial periods at sub-decadal to decadal timescales.

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“…This is supported by the existence of just LTM at a number of important Cromerian and Hoxnian archaeological sites in western central East Anglia which implies that the later ice advance associated with the 'upper till sheet' did not extend as far east (e.g. Rose, 1992;Preece et al, 2007;Ashton et al, 2008). Additionally, geochemical data from the WTTM in northwest Norfolk demonstrate a strong northwest/westerly derived ice flow component across the Wash similar to that suggested by Straw (1983) and later by Fish and Whiteman (2001).…”

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Reconstructing flow paths of the Middle Pleistocene British Ice Sheet in central-eastern England: the application of regional soil geochemical data

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Breward

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Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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Terrestrial environments during MIS 11: evidence from the Palaeolithic site at West Stow, Suffolk, UK

Cited by 136 publications

References 119 publications

Fluvial archives as a framework for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: patterns of British artefact distribution and potential chronological implications

Fluvial archives as a framework for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: patterns of British artefact distribution and potential chronological implications

Sub-decadal- to decadal-scale climate cyclicity during the Holsteinian interglacial (MIS 11) evidenced in annually laminated sediments

Reconstructing flow paths of the Middle Pleistocene British Ice Sheet in central-eastern England: the application of regional soil geochemical data

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