AHOB Publications and Resources
Summary Time Chart[Download]
Quaternary chronology with key British sites, archaeological industries, palaeogeography, and major warm periods and ice advances for the past 700,000 years.
Workshop Proceedings
Project participants periodically gather to present their research and to discuss progress at a workshop symposium. Proceedings of those workshops are available here.
Homo britannicus
Read about the AHOB project in Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus, published by Penguin Books in 2006.
Supplementary DataFrom: Preece, R.C & Parfitt, S.A. 2007. "The Cromer Forest-bed Formation: some recent developments relating to early human occupation and lowland glaciation."
* Database of Early and early Middle Pleistocene Water Voles (Rodentia: Mimomys savini and Arvicola) [Download file as PDF]
* Map of sites in the database [Download file as PDF]
Talks at the AHOB workshop held July, 2003 in London. From left to right: Chris Stringer, Russell Coope, Simon Lewis, and Richard Preece.
AHOB Publications
Hundreds of scientific papers have been published as part of the AHOB project. Here are three random selections:
1. Boismier, W., Schreve, D.C., White, M.J. Robertson, D.A. Stuart, A.J., Etienne, S., Andrews, J., Coope., G.R., Field, M., Greeh, F.M.L. Ken, D.H., Lewis, S.G., French, C.A., Rhodes, E. Schwenninger, J-L., Tovey, K and O'Connor. S. 2003. A Middle Palaeolithic site at Lynford Quarry, Mundford, Norfolk: Interim statement. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 69, 314-324
2. Schulting, R.J., and M.P. Richards (2002). Finding the coastal Mesolithic in Southwest Britain: AMS dates and stable isotope results on human remains from Caldey Island, South Wales. Antiquity 76:1011-1025.
3. Weaver T.D., Roseman, C.C. and Stringer, C.B. 2008. Close correspondence between quantitative and molecular-genetic divergence times for Neandertals and modern humans. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA. 105, 4645–4649
Microfossils and AHOB
About the Happisburgh site
About Roger Jacobi(c) 2009, Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project
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