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The editor introduces the volume (pp 1-6) with 'The British Upper Palaeolithic: problems and progress' [discusses the relative poverty of the material and reasons for it; the shift from artefactual to full-scale Quaternary enquiry]; John B Campbell (7-42), 'Hiatus and continuity in the British Upper Palaeolithic: a view from the Antipodes' [reasons for gaps in occupation could be other than climatic, since Australian evidence shows how quickly humans can adapt to changed circumstances]; P C Woodman (43-54), 'Why not an Irish Upper Palaeolithic?' [discusses reasons why such has not (yet?) been found]; D Long, C R Wickham-Jones & N A Ruckley (55-62), 'A flint artefact from the northern North Sea' [worked flint from a seabed core between Shetland and Norway suggests a large former land mass for human habitation]; Katharine Scott (63-87), 'Man in Britain in the Late Devensian: evidence from Ossom's Cave' [stratified bone and artefacts from 1950s excavations; seasonality and butchery evidence]; R D S Jenkinson et al (89-97), 'New Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Robin Hood's Cave, Creswell Crags SSSI, UK' [human mandible and associated reindeer antler predating Late Devensian glacial maximum]; Stephen Green et al (99-119), 'Excavations at Little Hoyle (Longbury Bank), Wales, in 1984' [gives environmental and chronometric evidence for 50 000 years of cave deposits; U-series and 14C dates; varied fauna could have attracted humans, tending to support Paviland burial date]; R M Jacobi et al (121-8), 'Accelerator mass spectrometry dating of Upper Palaeolithic finds, with the Poulton elk as an example' [date may suggest woodland developed earlier than thought]; R N E Barton (129-41), 'Experiments with long blades from Sproughton, near Ipswich, Suffolk' [tests of edge damage on replicas showed utility of such blades for heavy duty work on antler or bone]. Jill Cook (143-63), 'The application of scanning electron microscopy to taphonomic and archaeological problems' [diagnostic traits of human and other agenies causing alteration on bone]; Sandra Arndt & Mark Newcomer (165-73), 'Breakage patterns on prehistoric bone points: an experimental study' [tests on 20 variously-sized points of bone, antler, and ivory shot into carcases showed that damaged tips result more from misses than from hits]; remaining papers are E H Moss (175-85), on Pincevent; Dick Stapert et al (187-226) on Oldeholtwolde Late Hamburgian site; and M Dewez (227-34) on late Last Glacial Wallonia. |
