RT Journal Article
T1 Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity
A1 Mishra, Sheila
A1 White, Mark J.
A1 Beaumont, Peter
A1 Antoine, P.
A1 Bridgland, David R.
A1 Limondin-Lozouet, Nicole
A1 Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio
A1 Schreve, D.C.
A1 Shaw, A.D.
A1 Wenban-Smith, F.F.
A1 Westaway, R.W.C.
A1 White, T.S.
AB River terraces are well established as an important source of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts in Europe, large collectionshaving been assembled there during the years of manual gravel extraction. Now that many terrace sequences can be reliably dated andcorrelated with the oceanic record, potentially useful patterns can be recognized in the distribution of artefacts. The earliest appearanceof artefacts in terrace staircases, marking the arrival of the first tool-making hominins in the region in question, is the first of severalarchaeological markers within fluvial sequences. The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic transition, with the appearance of Levallois, isanother. Others may be more regional in significance: the occurrences of Clactonian (Mode 1) industry, twisted ovate handaxes and boutcoupe´ handaxes, for example. IGCP Project no. 449 instigated the compilation of fluvial records from all over the ‘old world’.Comparison between British and Central European sequences confirms the established view that there is a demarcation between handaxemaking in the west and flake/core industries in the east. Other centres of activity reported here have been in the Middle East (Syria),South Africa and India. Data from such areas will be key in deciphering the story of the earlier ‘out-of-Africa’ migration, that by pre-Homo sapiens people. There is clear evidence for diachroneity between the first appearances of different industries, in keeping with thewell-established idea of northward migration.
PB Elsevier
SN 0277-3791
YR 2007
FD 2007
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49634
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49634
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 3 may 2024