The Pleistocene Succession in England

Kennard, A. S.

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“…Differences between the faunal and archaeological assemblages from West Thurrock and the neighbouring Essex sites of Grays Thurrock (Morris 1836) and Little Thurrock (Bridgland & Harding 1993) were recognised at an early stage by Hinton (1910), Kennard (1916), and Warren (1923a), all of whom concluded that the former was significantly younger than the latter two. However, palynological studies subsequently failed to differentiate between them and all three localities have been ascribed to the Ipswichian Interglacial (eg, West 1969;Carreck 1972;Hollin 1977;Gibbard etal.…”

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A Levallois Knapping Site at West Thurrock, Lower Thames, UK: its Quaternary Context, Environment and Age

Schreve

Harding

White

et al. 2006

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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A Levallois Knapping Site at West Thurrock, Lower Thames, UK: its Quaternary Context, Environment and Age

Schreve

Harding

White

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Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“…28 In all this, Lubbock's views were in marked contrast to those of many of his contemporaries, who retained stubbornly monoglacialist opinions; none more so than his fellow Prestwich medallist, the amateur malacologist, A. S. Kennard. 29 As with many of the great controversies of his day, on this matter Lubbock is seen to have been on the side that eventually won the argument, having shown both prescience and foresight, often ahead of younger scientists such as Kennard.…”

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John Lubbock's early contribution to the understanding of river terraces and their importance to Geography, Archaeology and Earth Science

Bridgland

2013

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In his writings John Lubbock expounded views on the understanding of past climates, prehistoric faunas, early humans, and the evolution of landscape and river systems. His contributions on some of these related topics are scarcely remembered, despite comparison with modern thinking showing them frequently to have been prescient. He visited the Somme valley, observing river terrace gravels and Palaeolithic artefacts in the company of the leading geologists and archaeologists of his day, visits that furnished knowledge of the early archaeological record and were also formative in terms of his understanding of river-valley and landscape evolution. He noted that terraces represented former valley-floor levels and that rivers had deepened their valleys in response to uplift of the land, something that is often not fully grasped at the present time. He was also an early believer in interglacial -glacial climatic fluctuation, an idea not widely accepted in Britain until after his death.

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“…Thus Wright's (1914) Quaternary Ice Age chiefly concerned glacial stratigraphy, and so did Slater's 1929 account. There were, however, interesting attempts to inject palaeontological evidence into Pleistocene stratigraphy, as with the non-marine molluscs by Woodward and Kennard (Kennard, 1916) and with mammals by Hinton (1910Hinton ( , 1926. These attempts were not successful, since there was inadequate stratigraphical control of the age of the assemblages concerned.…”

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“…These attempts were not successful, since there was inadequate stratigraphical control of the age of the assemblages concerned. Kennard (1916) pointed out that it was wrong to use the Penck and Bruckner (1909) chronology for the Alps as a basis for the English Pleistocene succession. This fourfold scheme of Alpine glaciations had by then become a chronology widely applied in Europe and elsewhere.…”

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Palaeobotany and Pleistocene Stratigraphy in Britain

West

1981

New Phytologist

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SUMMARYThe history of the application of palaeobotany to the development of Pleistocene stratigraphy in Britain is reviewed. Problems arising in the interpretation of pollen assemblages are discussed from palaeobotanical and stratigraphical points of view. Problems of correlation and nomenclature are also discussed. HISTORICAL SURVEYClement Reid in his classic work on The Origin of the British Elora (Reid, 1899) observed that 'to the extreme glacialist the "Pleistocene" is equivalent to the "Glacial" Period, and the scattered relics of Interglacial mild epochs are judged to be of small importance'. He added that his work on the history of the British flora might be thought to go to the opposite extreme since he believed that 'the accumulation of ice and snow merely marked two or more culminating epochs in a period when the climate was at least as commonly temperate as Arctic', Clement Reid's studies of macroscopic plant remains from British Pleistocene deposits had led him to classify the plant assemblages as 'pre-glacial', 'early glacial', 'interglacial', 'late glacial' and 'Neolithic', He laid stress on the importance of stratigraphical evidence for the age of his assemblages, with the nature of the assemblage giving the evidence for former climate, Clement Reid's work should be viewed against the background of British Pleistocene studies at that time, well-described by Lamplugh (1906) in his British Association address on 'British Drifts and the Interglacial Problem', Lamplugh noted that James Geikie's (1895) scheme of European glacial and interglacial stages found little or no support in Britain, and that its complexity derived from a too-ready acceptance by James Geikie of the geological consequences of Croll's Astronomical Theory. Lamplugh concluded that 'the British evidence for the Interglacial hypothesis, though requiring further consideration in some districts, is nowhere satisfactory'.At the same time, on the continent, Hartz (1909) in Denmark was establishing the nature of interglacial plant successions through careful stratigraphical work on plant macroscopic remains, and in Germany, Weber (1896a) was also studying interglacial plant remains. Nevertheless, as in Britain, argument on the interglacial hypothesis went on, Hartz (1909) wrote that 'the evidence that the Glacial Period in Europe and North America has been interrupted by one or several interglacial periods increases year by year, and the adherents of "Monoglacialismus", who have become very few in number (though very prolific with the pen) during the last ten years, seem to lose ground more and more'.To a large extent, these discussions on the interglacial hypothesis centred on the definition of the term interglacial. Thus Lamplugh {loc. cit.) regarded the 0028-646X/81/010127+ 11 »()2,00/0

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The Pleistocene Succession in England

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A Levallois Knapping Site at West Thurrock, Lower Thames, UK: its Quaternary Context, Environment and Age

A Levallois Knapping Site at West Thurrock, Lower Thames, UK: its Quaternary Context, Environment and Age

John Lubbock's early contribution to the understanding of river terraces and their importance to Geography, Archaeology and Earth Science

Palaeobotany and Pleistocene Stratigraphy in Britain

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