ABSTRACT

Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures.  He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the multidisciplinary nature of the subject.

In analyzing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic culture, this book represents the latest research in archaeology, population dispersals, geology, climatology, human palaeontoloty, evolutionary psychology, environmental and biological disciplines and dating techniques, along with many other research methods. 

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|247 pages

Where, What and When

chapter 1|25 pages

Strangers in a Strange Land

The Clactonian problem, outlined and defined

chapter 2|29 pages

Geological and Other Frameworks

chapter 5|30 pages

Hominin Occupation Just Before, During, and Just after Marine Isotope Stage 11

The Swanscombe Interglacial

chapter 6|25 pages

Hominin Occupation Just Before, During, and Just after Marine Isotope Stage 9

The Purfleet Interglacial

chapter 7|29 pages

Hominin Occupation Just Before, During, and Just after Marine Isotope Stage 7

The Aveley Interglacial

chapter 8|32 pages

The European Scene

chapter 9|4 pages

The Story so Far

part II|123 pages

Why And How: The Clactonian itself

chapter 10|26 pages

A Twentieth-Century Child

Non-handaxe assemblages from before 1900 to 1950

chapter 11|23 pages

Coming of Age in the Brave New World

The Clactonian from the 1950s to the present

chapter 12|42 pages

The Contentious Stones

chapter 13|28 pages

How Well Behaved was Homo Heidelbergensis?

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue