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The final publication of results of the excavations at Pontnewydd cave in north-east Wales has been eagerly awaited. The site was investigated as part of the Palaeolithic Settlement of Wales Research Programme, which has been responsible for transforming understanding of the nature of human settlement on the very margins of Eurasia by early Neanderthals. The caves of the Elwy valley in north-east Wales contain evidence of the earliest human occupation of Wales. This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research. It describes the traces of occupation left around 225,000 years ago by people who were ancestors of the Neanderthals. These include stone tools, animal bones and the remains of the people themselves. The key cave site, Pontnewydd, is full of international significance, producing artefacts and fauna associated with early Neanderthal skeletal material, related to repeated occupations of the cave around a quarter of a million years ago. Key issues relating to gender and diet will be explored. Within the faunal assemblage at Pontnewydd, as also within the potentially contemporary assemblage from the nearby cave of Cefn, it is possible to see interglacial elements which may date to MIS 7 or, even, to the preceding interglacial cycle (MIS 9), fully 50 to 100,000 years earlier. The pointers here are the rhinoceros Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis , a large horse Equus ferus , and the leopard, Panthera pardus . None of these can be later than MIS 7 and may even be of MIS 9 age. Moreover, the species of bear represented at both Pontnewydd and Cefn is the cave bear ( Ursus spelaeus ) and these seem to be replaced by brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) during MIS 11 or 9. This inference of an early date for elements of the Pontnewydd and Cefn faunas is borne out by the presence of macaque at Cefn, a species not known in Britain after MIS 9. This multi-authored monograph will place the Elwy valley caves within a geological and archaeological context; allow a detailed publication of research on the artefacts, fauna and hominid remains; and provide a synthesis of how this work feeds back into understandings of the Palaeolithic settlement on the edge of the then known world.

Table of Contents:
An Introduction to Human Evolution, and the Place of the Pontnewydd Cave Human Fossils (Chris Stringer) 2. The History of the Caves – Elizabeth A. Walker and Tristan (Gray Hulse) 3. The Geomorphology of the Country Around Pontnewydd Cave (David Q. Bowen and Helen J. Livingston) 4. The Geology of Pontnewydd Cave (William B. Jones) 5. The Sedimentary Sequence (Richard Mourne, David Case, Heather A. Viles and Peter A. Bull) 6. The Excavations at Pontnewydd Cave (Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Rick Peterson) 7. The Excavations at Cefn and Cae Gronw (Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Rick Peterson) 8. The Fauna (Andrew P. Currant and Anne Eastham with notes by Kate Scott and Bryony Coles) 9. The Human Remains (Tim Compton and Chris Stringer) 10. Pontnewydd Cave: the Characterization, Petrology, Taphonomy and Interpretation of the Archaeological Finds (Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Richard E. Bevins, Heather Jackson, Rick Peterson and Elizabeth A. Walker with a note by Tim Young) 11. Dating (Nicholas C. Debenham, Tim Atkinson, Rainer Grün, Nick Hebden, Thomas Higham, Rupert Housley, Paul Pettitt, Edward J. Rhodes, Peter Rowe and Li Ping Zhou) 12. Stable Isotope Analysis of Animal Bone from Pontnewydd Cave (Mandy Jay, Vaughan Grimes and Michael P. Richards) 13. The Pontnewydd People, Their Cave and Their World (Stephen Aldhouse-Green) Epilogue – The Glass Island (Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Elizabeth A. Walker)

Review :
"...a well-crafted and extremely informative volume that gives a unique insight to early Neanderthals in north-western Europe."-- (6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781842174609
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxbow Books
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1842174606
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Sub Title: Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves


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