Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group

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Chauhan, Parth R.^1,2,3  Bridgland, David R.⁴  Moncel, Marie-Helene⁵  Antoine, Pierre⁶  Bahain, Jean-Jacques⁷  Briant, Rebecca⁸  Cunha, Pedro P.⁹  Despriee, Jackie⁵  Limondin-Lozouet, Nicole⁶  Locht, Jean-Luc¹⁰  Martins, Antonio A.¹¹  Schreve, Danielle C.¹²  Shaw, Andrew D.¹³  Voinchet, Pierre⁷  Westaway, Rob¹⁴  White, Mark J.¹⁵  White, Tom S.¹⁶ 

[1] Indian Inst Sci Educ & Res, Dept Humanities & Social Sci, Sect 81, Mohali 140306, Punjab, India

[2] Stone Age Inst, 1392 W Dittemore Rd, Gosport, IN 47433 USA

[3] Indiana Univ, Dept Anthropol, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[4] Univ Durham, Dept Geog, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[5] CNRS, UMR 7194, Museum Natl Hist Nat, Inst Paleontol Humaine,Dept Prehist, Paris, France

[6] Univ Paris 01, CNRS, UMR8591, Lab Geog Phys, 1 Pl A Briand, F-92195 Meudon, France

[7] Museum Natl Hist Nat, Lab Prehist, Paris, France

[8] Birbeck Univ London, Dept Geog Environm & Dev Studies, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, England

[9] Univ Coimbra, Dept Earth Sci, Marine & Environm Res Ctr, P-3030790 Coimbra, Portugal

[10] INRAP Nord Picardie, CNRS, UMR 8591, Lab Geog Phys, 518 Rue St Fuscien, F-80000 Amiens, France

[11] Univ Evora, Dept Geociencias, ICT, P-7000671 Evora, Portugal

[12] Royal Holloway Univ London, Dept Geog, Ctr Quaternary Res, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England

[13] Univ Southampton, Fac Humanities Archaeol, Southampton SO17 1BF, Hants, England

[14] Univ Glasgow, Sch Engn, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland

[15] Univ Durham, Dept Archaeol, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[16] Univ Cambridge, Dept Zool, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, England

关键词: Fluvial archives;    Hominin occupation;    River terraces;    Lower Palaeolithic;    Middle Palaeolithic;    Acheulian;    Levallois;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.016

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Fluvial sedimentary archives are important repositories for Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts throughout the 'Old World', especially in Europe, where the beginning of their study coincided with the realisation that early humans were of great antiquity. Now that many river terrace sequences can be reliably dated and correlated with the globally valid marine isotope record, potentially useful patterns can be recognized in the distribution of the find -spots of the artefacts that constitute the large collections that were assembled during the years of manual gravel extraction. This paper reviews the advances during the past two decades in knowledge of hominin occupation based on artefact occurrences in fluvial contexts, in Europe, Asia and Africa. As such it is an update of a comparable review in 2007, at the end of IGCP Project no. 449, which had instigated the compilation of fluvial records from around the world during 2000-2004, under the auspices of the Fluvial Archives Group. An overarching finding is the confirmation of the well -established view that in Europe there is a demarcation between handaxe making in the west and flake core industries in the east, although on a wider scale that pattern is undermined by the increased numbers of Lower Palaeolithic bifaces now recognized in East Asia. It is also apparent that, although it seems to have appeared at different places and at different times in the later Lower Palaeolithic, the arrival of Levallois technology as a global phenomenon was similarly timed across the area occupied by Middle Pleistocene hominins, at around 0.3 Ma. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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