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Ashton, N., McNabb, J., Irving, B., Lewis, S. & Parfitt, S. 1994. Contemporaneity of Clactonian and Acheulian flint industries at Barnham, Suffolk. Antiquity 68: 585-589.

Ashton, N. & Lewis, S. 2002. Deserted Britain: Declining Populations in the British Late Middle Pleistocene. Antiquity 76 (2002): 388–396.

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Bridgland, D.R. 1994. Quaternary of the Thames. Geological Conservation Review Series 7. Chapman and Hall, London.

Bridgland, D.R. 1996. Quaternary River Terrace Deposits as a Framework for the Lower Palaeolithic Record. In C.S. Gamble & A.J. Lawson (eds) The English Palaeolithic Reviewed: 23–39. Wessex Archaeology Ltd, Salisbury.

Bridgland, D.R. 2000. River terrace systems in north-west Europe: an archive of environmental change, uplift and early human occupation. Quaternary Science Reviews 19: 1293–1303.

Callow, P. 1986. A Comparison of British and French Acheulean bifaces. In S.N. Collcutt (ed.) The Palaeolithic of Britain and its Nearest Neighbours: Recent Trends: 3-7. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.

Chambers, J.C. In prep. The Examination and Analysis of Derived Context Assemblages with Special Reference to Artefacts Recovered from the Solent and Axe Rivers, Southern England. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Southampton.

Church, M. & Hassan, M.A. 1992. Size and distance of unconstrained clasts on a streambed. Water Resources Research 28: 299-303.

Coope, G.R. 2001. Biostratigraphical distinction of interglacial coleopteran assemblages from southern Britain attributed to Oxygen Isotope Stages 5e and 7. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 1717-1722.

Coulson, S.D. 1986. The Bout Coupé Handaxe as a Typological Mistake. In S.N. Collcutt (ed.) The Palaeolithic of Britain and its Nearest Neighbours: Recent Trends: 53-54. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.

Currant, A. & Jacobi, R. 2001. A formal mammalian biostratigraphy for the Late Pleistocene of Britain. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 1707-1716.

Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Serrallonga, J., Juan-Tresserras, J., Alcala, L. & Luque, L. 2001. Woodworking activities by early humans: a plant residue analysis on Acheulian stone tools from Peninj (Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution 40: 289–299.

Gamble, C.S. 1996. Hominid Behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene: an English Perspective. In C.S. Gamble & A.J. Lawson (ed’s) The English Palaeolithic Reviewed: 61-71. Wessex Archaeology Ltd, Salisbury.

Gamble, C.S. 1997. Review. The Skills of the Lower Palaeolithic World. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63: 407-410.

Gamble, C.S. & Roebroeks, W. 1999. The Middle Palaeolithic: a point of inflection. In W. Roebroeks & C.S. Gamble (ed’s) The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe: 3-21. University of Leiden Press, Leiden.

Gibbard, P.L. & Lewin, J. 2002. Climate and related controls on interglacial fluvial sedimentation in lowland Britain. Sedimentary Geology 151: 187-210.

Harding, P, Gibbard, P.L., Lewin J., Macklin, M.G. & Moss E.H. 1987. The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed river. In G. de G. Sieveking & M.H. Newcomer (ed’s) The Human Uses of Flint and Chert: Proceedings of the Fourth International Flint Symposium Held at Brighton Polytechnic, Oct-15 April 1983: 115-126. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Hosfield, R.T. 1999. The Palaeolithic of the Hampshire Basin: a regional model of hominid behaviour during the Middle Pleistocene. BAR British Series 286. Archaeopress, Oxford.

Hosfield, R.T. 2001. The Lower Palaeolithic of the Solent: site formation and interpretive frameworks. In F.F. Wenban-Smith & R.T. Hosfield (ed’s) Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Solent River: 85–97. Lithic Studies Society Occasional Paper 7. Lithic Studies Society, London.

Hosfield, R.T. & Chambers, J.C. 2002. Processes and Experiences — Experimental Archaeology on a River Floodplain. In M.G. Macklin, P.A. Brewer & T.J. Coulthard (ed’s) River Systems and Environmental Change in Wales: Field Guide: 32–39. British Geomorphological Research Group, Aberystwyth.

Hosfield, R.T. & Chambers, J.C. 2003. Rivers gravels, flakes and handaxes: Experiments in site formation, stone tool transportation and transformation. Paper presented at the 1st Conference of the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment (Vienna, 10-12th October 2003).

Jacobi, R.M., Rowe, P.J., Gilmour, M.A., Grün, R. & Atkinson, T.C. 1998. Radiometric dating of the Middle Palaeolithic tool industry and associated fauna of Pin Hole Cave, Creswell Crags, England. Journal of Quaternary Science 13: 29-42.

Keen, D.H. 2001. Towards a late Middle Pleistocene non-marine molluscan biostratigraphy for the British Isles. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 1657-1665.

Howard, A.J. & Macklin, M.G. 1999. A generic geomorphological approach to archaeological interpretation and prospection in British river valleys: a guide for archaeologists investigating Holocene landscapes. Antiquity 73(281): 527-541.

Maddy, D. & Bridgland, D.R. 2000. Accelerated uplift resulting from Anglian glacioisostatic rebound in the Middle Thames Valley, UK?: evidence from the river terrace record. Quaternary Science Reviews 19: 1581–1588.

Maddy, D., Bridgland, D.R. & Westaway, R. 2001. Uplift-driven valley incision and climate-controlled river terrace development in the Thames Valley, UK. Quaternary International 79: 23–36.

McNabb, J. & Ashton, N. 1992. The Cutting Edge: Bifaces in the Clactonian. Lithics: The Newsletter of the Lithics Studies Society 13: 4–10.

McNabb, J. 1996. More from the cutting edge: further discoveries of Clactonian bifaces. Antiquity 70(268): 428-436.

Mellars, P. 1996. The Neanderthal Legacy. University of Princeton Press, Princeton.

Mithen, S. 1996. Social learning and cultural tradition. In J. Steele & S. Shennan (ed’s) The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: 207-229. Routledge, London.

Petit, J.R., Jouzel, J., Raynaud, D., Barkov, N.I., Barnola, J-M., Basile, I., Benders, M., Chappellaz, J., Davis, M., Delaygue, G., Delmotte, M., Kotlyakov, V.M., Legrand, M., Lipenkov, V.Y., Lorius, C., Pepin, L., Ritz, C., Saltzman, E. & Stievenard, M. 1999. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 399: 429-436.

Preece, R.C. 2001. Molluscan evidence for differentiation of interglacials within the ‘Cromerian Complex’. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 1643-1656.

Rhodes, E. 2003. Luminescence dating: recent advances, new results. Paper presented at the Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Day Meeting (London, 10th-11th April 2003).

Roberts, M.B. & Parfitt, S.A. 1998. Boxgrove: a Middle Pleistocene hominid site at Eartham Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex. English Heritage, London.

Roe, D.A. 1981. The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, London.

Roebroeks, W., Conard, N.J. & van Kolfschoten, T. 1992. Dense forests, cold steppes and the Palaeolithic settlement of northern Europe. Current Anthropology 33: 551-586.

Rose, J., Turner, C., Coope, G.R. & Bryan, M.D. 1980. Channel changes in a lowland river catchment over the last 13,000 years. In R.A. Cullingford, D.A. Davidson & J. Lewin (ed’s) Timescales in Geomorphology: 159-175. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester.

Schreve, D.C. 2001. Mammalian evidence from Middle Pleistocene fluvial sequences for complex environmental change at the oxygen isotope sub-stage level. Quaternary International 79: 65–74.

Singer, R., Wymer, J., Gladfelter, B.G. & Wolff, R.G. 1973. Excavation of the Clactonian Industry at the Golf Course, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 39: 6-74.

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Stern, N. 1994. The implications of time-averaging for reconstructing the land-use patterns of early tool-using hominids. In J.S. Oliver, N.E. Sikes & K.M. Stewart (ed’s) Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology: 89-105. Academic Press Limited, London.

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Vandenberghe, J. 1993. Changing fluvial processes under changing periglacial conditions. In I. Douglas & J. Hagedorn (ed’s) Geomorphology and Geoecology: 17-28. Gebruder Borntraeger, Berlin.

Vandenberghe, J. 1995. Timescales, Climate and River Development. Quaternary Science Reviews 14: 631-638.

Vandenberghe, J. 2002. The relation between climate and river processes, landforms and deposits during the Quaternary. Quaternary International 91: 17–23.

Wenban-Smith, F.F. 1998. Clactonian and Acheulean Industries in Britain: Their Chronology and Significance Reconsidered. In N. Ashton, F. Healy & P. Pettitt (eds) Stone Age Archaeology: Essays in Honour of John Wymer: 90–97. Oxbow Monograph 102 & Lithic Studies Society Occasional Paper No. 6. Oxbow Books, London.

Wenban-Smith, F.F., Gamble, C.S. & ApSimon, A. 2000. The Lower Palaeolithic Site at Red Barns, Porchester: Bifacial technology, Raw Material Quality, and the Organisation of Archaic Behaviour. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 66: 209-256.

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