UID:
almahu_9947367778702882
Format:
1 online resource (322 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-95542-X
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9786612955426
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0-444-53598-5
Series Statement:
Developments in Quaternary science, 14
Content:
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. Study of changes in climate, landscape and biota over the last million years provides the environmental backdrop to understanding human presence and absence together with the development of new technologies. This book brings together the multidisciplinary work of the project. T
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Changing Landscapes of the Earliest Human Occupation of Britain and Europe; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2: Climates of the early Middle Pleistocene in Britain: Environments of the Earliest Humans in Northern Europe; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Climate Change During the early Middle Pleistocene; 2.3. Reconstructing British Climates for the early Middle Pleistocene; 2.4. Climates and Environments of the British early Middle Pleistocene
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2.5. Climate Cyclicity During the early Middle Pleistocene2.6. Significance of early Middle Pleistocene Climates to the Earliest Humans in Northern Europe and Britain; 2.7. Summary; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3: Palaeoenvironments of Ancient Humans in Britain: The Application of Oxygenand Carbon Isotopes to the Reconstruction of Pleistocene Environments; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Oxygen and Carbon Stable Isotopes in Quaternary Studies; 3.3. Modern Carbonates in Britain; 3.4. The Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Record of British Interglacials; 3.5. Carbonates from the Cromerian Complex
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3.6. Carbonates from the Hoxnian Interglacial3.7. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4: Mapping the Human Record: Population Change in Britain During the Early Palaeolithic; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Previous Studies; 4.3. The Solent River and its Tributaries; 4.4. The Middle Thames Reconsidered; 4.5. The early Middle Palaeolithic in Britain; 4.6. The Palaeogeography of Britain; 4.7. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5: The Emergence, Diversity and Significance of Mode 3 (Prepared Core) Technologies; 5.1. Introduction
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5.2. Diversity and Unity in Mode 3 Technologies5.3. Mode 3 Technology in Time and Space; 5.4. Roots and Developments; 5.5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 6: Technology and Landscape Use in the Early Middle Palaeolithic of the Thames Valley; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The Upper Thames; 6.3. The Middle Thames; 6.4. The Lower Thames; 6.5. Discussion; 6.6. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 7: The Early Middle Palaeolithic: The European Context; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. The Environmental Structure of the Early Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 8-6)
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7.3. Early Middle Palaeolithic of Northwest Europe7.4. MIS 7; 7.5. Discussion; 7.6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8: Continuities and Discontinuities in Neandertal Presence: A Closer Look at Northwestern Europe; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. An Ecological Perspective: Definitions and Comparative Data; 8.3. Neandertal Ecology; 8.4. Three Data Sets: Archaeology, Genetics and Comparative Studies; 8.5. Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 9: Testing Human Presence During the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e): A Review of the British Evidence; 9.1. Introduction
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9.2. Stratigraphic Frameworks
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-53597-7
Language:
English
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