ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author look at the evidence for the existence of a non-handaxe assemblage type in Europe. The aim of this chapter is to determine whether or not precise parallels to the Clactonian exist, and then determine whether or not those parallels, or lack of them, allow the reader to chose between one of White's interpretations. Moving northwards over the Alps the people come into the area that Bosinski defines as western-central Europe. An anticlockwise route, taking in northern, central and southern France, Iberia, Italy and the western and eastern halves of north central Europe reveals no evidence for the perpetuation of a non-handaxe tradition that stemmed from an earlier occupation in the Lower Pleistocene or Early Middle Pleistocene. Evidence for a non-handaxe tradition conforming to either of White’s first two propositions is not present in post-Anglian Europe.
