AHOB Publications and Resources
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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. Preece, R.C. 2010. The molluscan fauna of the Cromerian type site at West Runton, Norfolk. In Stuart, A.J. and Lister, A.M. (eds) The West Runton Elephant and its Cromerian Environment. Quaternary International 228, 53-62.
2. Lewis, M.D., Pacher, M. and Turner, A., 2010. The larger Carnivora of the West Runton Freshwater Bed. In Stuart, A.J. and Lister, A.M. (eds) The West Runton Elephant and its Cromerian Environment. Quaternary International 228, 116-135.
3. Parfitt, S.A. 2013. Vertebrate biostratigraphy. In: F.F. Wenban-Smith (Ed.), The Ebbsfleet Elephant. Excavations at Southfleet Road in Advance of High Speed 1, 2003-2004. Oxford Archaeology, pp. 233-262.
Microfossils and AHOB
About the Happisburgh site
About Roger Jacobi(c) 2009, Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project
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