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Journal of the Geological Society; 1994; v. 151; issue.4; p. 599-605;
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.151.4.0599
© 1994 Geological Society of London

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Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk 1989–92

N.M. ASHTON1, D.Q. BOWEN2, J.A. HOLMAN3, C.O. HUNT4, B.G. IRVING5, R.A. KEMP6, S.G. LEWIS7, J. McNABB8, S. PARFITT9 & M.B. SEDDON10

1 Department of Prehistoric & Romano-British Antiquities, British Museum, 38 Orsman Rd., London N1 5QJ, UK
2 Institute of Earth Sciences, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3DB, UK
3 Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Michigan State University Museum, Michigan, 48824-1045, USA
4 Department of Geography, Huddersfield University, Huddersfield HB1 3DH, UK
5 Department of Human Environment, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WClH OPY, UK
6 Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, W20 0EX, UK
7 Department of Geography & Geology, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Cheltenham GL50 3PP, UK
8 144 Camden Road, Camden, London NW1 4AJ, UK
9 Institute of Archaeology, Field Archaeology Unit, University College London, London, WC1H OPY, UK
10 Department of Palaeontology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CFl 3NS, UK

Preliminary results are presented from three seasons' work at the Lower Palaeolithic site at Barnham. The complex stratigraphy is described and a provisional interpretation given, which suggests that the archaeological deposits date to a warm phase after the Anglian (Middle Pleistocene) cold stage. A fauna1 assemblage from the deposits is described, providing an environmental and biostratigraphic context for the site. Further geochronological control is provided by amino acid ratios on shells from the sequence. Two flint assemblages have been excavated, the first consisting of flakes and cores, and the second including bifaces. These assemblages and their position in the British sequence are considered in terms of their stratigraphic context and their relationship to other Lower Palaeolithic assemblages in the British Isles.




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