Year: 1995
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: occupation of Europe:The evidence presented here suggests that the British Isles wasfirst colonized at the heginning of the temperate or interglacial stage that immediately pre-dates the Anglian cold Stage.Lithostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic mode Hing correlates the Anglian with Oxygen Isotope Stage 12. which is dated to between 478. and 423 Kyr BP.Accordingly, the earliest occupation ofBritain occurred around half a million years ago.The early colonizers are assigned, front the Boxgrove specimen, to the species Homo cf heidelbergensis.One hundred thousand years later, at Swanscombe, this group hegins to exhibit some cranial skeletal characteristics usually assoeiated with the Neanderthal lineage.Throughout the period covered by this pa/ter l/icrc is apparent stasis in the lithic industries, which include both biface dominant assemblages andflake tooi dominant assemblages.Strict division between these two types of assemblages is no langer tenable on typological or < hronologu al grounds. Middie Pleistocene Colonization of NW Europe: Sites pre-dating the Anglian Cold Stage2.1.
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2592826695