Seabed Prehistory : Investigating the Palaeogeography and Early Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Southern North Sea.

Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- A note on dates, water depths and co-ordinate system conventions -- Abstract -- Foreign Language Summaries -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A fortuitous discovery -- Project background -- Study Area -- Marine aggregate dredging and archaeology: managing the historic environment -- The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund -- Contribution to the wider field of submerged prehistory -- Structure of this volume -- Chapter 2: The Original Flint and Faunal Assemblage -- The flint assemblage -- Characterisation of the flake and core assemblage -- Characterisation of the hand axe assemblage -- Raw material procurement -- Post-depositional artefact modifications -- The Area 240 faunal remains: a summary -- Discussion -- Chapter 3: Paleaogeographic Reconstruction Methods -- Introduction -- Area 240 investigations -- Stage 1: existing data review -- Stage 2: geophysical data acquisition -- Positioning -- Single-beam echosounder data -- Sub-bottom profiler data -- Sidescan sonar data -- Magnetometer data -- Methodology discussion -- Comparison and integration of 2005 and 2009 datasets -- Stage 3: seabed sampling -- Stage 4: palaeoenvironmental sampling -- Stages 5 and 6: palaeoenvironmental assessment, analysis and dating -- Subsequent work -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Prehistoric Characterisation of Area 240 and the Southern North Sea Region -- Introduction -- The present-day setting of the Palaeo-Yare -- Area 240 palaeogeographic reconstruction -- Pre-Yare Valley palaeogeography -- The Ur-Frisia delta plain: pre-Anglian (MIS 13 upwards -- &gt -- 478 ka) -- Extensive remodelling of the landscape: Anglian (MIS 12 -- 478-424 ka) -- Early Development of the Palaeo-Yare -- A new drainage pattern: late Anglian (MIS 12 -- c. 434 ka).

A marine incursion: Hoxnian (MIS 11 -- 424-374 ka) -- Channel and floodplain development during the Saalian (MIS 10-6 -- 374-130 ka) -- Overview -- Fluvio-glacial sediment deposition in the Palaeo-Yare -- The last interglacial: Ipswichian (MIS 5e -- 130-115 ka) -- Channel re-activation and continued development: Devensian (MIS 5d-MIS 2 -- 115 ka-11.7 ka) -- Early Devensian (MIS 5d-MIS 3 -- 115 ka-54 ka) -- Mid- to late Devensian (MIS 3-MIS 2 -- 54 ka-11.7 ka) -- Early Holocene channel development and final transgression (&lt -- 11.7 ka) -- Channel development -- Post-transgression development -- Preservation of sediments in Area 240 -- Chapter 5: The Continued Search for Archaeological Material -- Introduction -- Remote sampling techniques -- Grab sampling for artefacts -- Area 240 seabed sampling survey -- Sampling strategy -- Positioning -- Video/stills photographs -- Two metre scientific trawl -- Grab sample acquisition and processing -- Transect 1 -- Transect 2 -- Transect 3 -- Discussion -- Dredging for archaeological, palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental material -- Sampling strategy -- Dredging vessel: assessment of dredge loads -- SBV Flushing Wharf -- Recovered flint -- Recovered palaeontological and environmental material -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Examination of the Archaeology, Methodological Approach and Management of Area 240 and Further Afield -- Introduction -- The Area 240 assemblage formation and post-depositional modification -- The artefact assemblage -- Geological context of the artefacts -- Taphonomic considerations -- A local source of material and production? -- Site formation scenarios -- Summary -- The geographic and cultural setting of the Middle Palaeolithic assemblage within the Palaeo-Yare -- The potential for archaeological material in the aggregate block.

The significance of the artefact assemblage within the Palaeo-Yare -- Faunal remains in Area 240 and the southern North Sea -- Geological context of the faunal remains -- The bigger picture -- Populating our palaeogeography -- Environment and resources -- Movement and colonisation -- Method evaluation -- Reconstruction of the palaeogeography -- Sampling artefacts -- Summary -- Management and mitigation -- Further afield -- Key conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: original flint artefact descriptions -- Index.

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