Of mammoths and other monsters: historic approaches to the submerged Palaeolithic
Of mammoths and other monsters: historic approaches to the submerged Palaeolithic
Recent research on the submerged central and southern North Sea basin has focused on the end of the story, the last few millennia before the final inundation. Much older deposits do survive, however, and are documented by collections of Pleistocene fauna recovered by fishing fleets operating from Dutch and British ports during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Analysis of the British collections allows them to be assigned to specific areas of seabed and to broad stages of the Pleistocene climatic sequence. The results provide evidence of more complex and fragmentary undersea landscapes than can be detected using geophysical approaches alone, and indicate targeted areas for future work.
submerged prehistory, palaeolithic, submerged landscapes
857-875
Bynoe, Rachel
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Dix, Justin
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Sturt, Fraser
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August 2016
Bynoe, Rachel
21c246e1-0fa1-48ba-acdc-d29cac364027
Dix, Justin
efbb0b6e-7dfd-47e1-ae96-92412bd45628
Sturt, Fraser
442e14e1-136f-4159-bd8e-b002bf6b95f6
Bynoe, Rachel, Dix, Justin and Sturt, Fraser
(2016)
Of mammoths and other monsters: historic approaches to the submerged Palaeolithic.
Antiquity, 90 (352), .
(doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.129).
Abstract
Recent research on the submerged central and southern North Sea basin has focused on the end of the story, the last few millennia before the final inundation. Much older deposits do survive, however, and are documented by collections of Pleistocene fauna recovered by fishing fleets operating from Dutch and British ports during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Analysis of the British collections allows them to be assigned to specific areas of seabed and to broad stages of the Pleistocene climatic sequence. The results provide evidence of more complex and fragmentary undersea landscapes than can be detected using geophysical approaches alone, and indicate targeted areas for future work.
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 September 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 July 2016
Published date: August 2016
Keywords:
submerged prehistory, palaeolithic, submerged landscapes
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397143
ISSN: 0003-598X
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