Antiquity 78 (301)

summary information regarding the 127 fish bone assemblages surveyed

Reports on the discovery of eggs of the genus Trichuris in Late Mesolithic deposits from South Wales, indicating that whipworm was present in Europe before the arrival of agriculture. This raises the possibility that human infection by Trichuris arose through contact with wild animals.

The UK has recently become a state party to the 1970 UNESCO Convention and is now introducing a package of measures designed to strengthen its treaty obligations, central to which is the creation of a new criminal offence of dishonestly dealing in cultural objects unlawfully removed anywhere in the world. These also include the development of effective tools to aid enforcement and due-diligence. Recent events in Iraq have also force the UK Government to announce its intention to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention.

Response to P Crombé and M Van Strydonck (this volume).

On the cultural significance of stone tools and toolmaking, including their relationship to shapes and symbols in Palaeolithic parietal and mobiliary art, and the similarity of the sound of lithic percussion to the onomatopoeic words which describe breaking or striking in a wide variety of languages.