Stone age archaeology : essays in honour of John Wymer / edited by Nick Ashton, Frances Healy and Paul Pettitt
Oxford : Oxbow, 1998. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #424925
ISBN: 190018866X
Physical description; viii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; 1. Bifaces, Booze and the Blues. Anecdotes from the Life and Times of a Palaeolithic Archaeologist / Andrew J. Lawson and Andrew Rogerson -- 2. J. J. W. A Tribute from the Upper Thames / R. J. MacRae -- 3. On the Move. Theory, Time Averaging and Resource Transport at Olduvai Gorge / John McNabb -- 4. Elandsfontein and Klasies River Revisited / H. J. Deacon -- 5. The Pleistocene History and Early Human Occupation of the River Thames Valley / David R. Bridgland -- 6. As Represented by the Thames Valley / Derek A. Roe -- 7. Quaternary Stratigraphy and Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Lark Valley, Suffolk / Simon G. Lewis -- 8. Hoxne, Suffolk: Time Matters / Bruce Gladfelter -- 9. Unity and Diversity in the Early Stone Age / J. A. J. Gowlett -- 10. An Intuitive Sense / Nick Ashton and Phil Dean -- 11. An Interim Report of an Archaeological Watching Brief on Palaeolithic Deposits at Dunbridge, Hants / P. A. Harding -- 12. Observations on the Artefacts from the Breccia at Kent's Cavern / Jill Cook and Roger Jacobi -- 13. Clactonian and Acheulian Industries in Britain: Their Chronology and Significance Reconsidered / Francis F. Wenban-Smith -- 14. Twisted Ovate Bifaces in the British Lower Palaeolithic: Some Observations and Implications / Mark J. White -- 15. Handaxes and Palaeolithic Individuals / Clive Gamble -- 16. Southern Rivers / Katharine Scott -- 17. Pleistocene Deposits and Archaeological Horizons in the Ariendorf Gravel Quarry, Lower Central Rhineland, Germany / Elaine Turner -- 18. Discoidal Core Technology in the Palaeolithic at Oldbury, Kent / Jill Cook and Roger Jacobi -- 19. The Archaeology of Distance: Perspectives from the Welsh Palaeolithic / Stephen Aldhouse-Green -- 20. Pushing Out the Boat for an Irish Palaeolithic / Peter C. Woodman -- 21. Long Blade Technology and the Question of British Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Lithic Assemblages / R. N. E. Barton -- 22. A Preboreal Lithic Assemblage from the Lower Rhineland Site of Bedburg-Konigshoven, Germany / Martin Street -- 23. Early Mesolithic Settlement in England and Wales: Some Preliminary Observations / Michael John Reynier -- 24. Early Mesolithic Mastic: Radiocarbon Dating and Analysis of Organic Residues from Thatcham III, Star Carr and Lackford Heath / A. J. Roberts, R. N. E. Barton and J. Evans -- 25. The Methods Used to Produce a Complete Harpoon / John Lord -- 26. Two Assemblages of Later Mesolithic Microliths from Seamer Carr, North Yorkshire: Fact and Fancy / A. David -- 27. Mesolithic Sites at Two Mile Bottom, near Thetford, Norfolk / Peter Robins -- 28. Studying the Mesolithic Period in Scotland: A Bibliographic Gazetteer / Alan Saville -- 29. The Surface of the Breckland / Frances Healy -- A Bibliography / John Wymer.
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