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Neanderthals in Wales : Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley caves / edited by Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Rick Peterson and Elizabeth A. Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neanderthals--Wales.
- Neanderthals.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Wales.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities, Prehsitoric--Wales.
- Antiquities, Prehsitoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The final publication of results of the excavations at Pontnewydd cave in north-east Wales has been eagerly awaited. The site was investigated as part of the Palaeolithic Settlement of Wales Research Programme, which has been responsible for transforming understanding of the nature of human settlement on the very margins of Eurasia by early Neanderthals. The caves of the Elwy valley in north-east Wales contain evidence of the earliest human occupation of Wales. This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research. It describes the traces of occupation left around 225,000 years.
- Contents:
- Cover; Foreword - David Anderson; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface - Derek Roe; Pontnewydd - A Personal Prologue - Stephen Aldhouse-Green; Key; 1 An Introduction to Human Evolution, and the Place of the Pontnewydd Cave Human Fossils; 2 The History of the Caves; 3 The Geomorphology of the Country Around Pontnewydd Cave; 4 The Geology of Pontnewydd Cave; 5 The Sedimentary Sequence; 6 The Excavations at Pontnewydd Cave; 7 The Excavations at Cefn and Cae Gronw; 8 The Fauna; 9 The Human Remains
- 10 Pontnewydd Cave: the Characterization, Petrology, Taphonomy and Interpretation of the Archaeological Finds11 Dating; 12 Stable Isotope Analysis of Animal Bone from Pontnewydd Cave; 13 The Pontnewydd People, Their Cave and Their World; Epilogue - The Glass Island; References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-84217-917-9
- OCLC:
- 829461121
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