LEADER 02925nam 22004693a 450 001 9910645970303321 005 20230124202134.0 010 $a9781789699654 010 $a1789699657 035 $a(CKB)4950000000289862 035 $a(ScCtBLL)cc0f8944-9928-4f7e-aa9e-39a9487484d4 035 $a(Perlego)2883323 035 $a(oapen)doab71912 035 $a(ScCtBLL)cd11384e-4459-485e-8eed-310ead231b07 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000289862 100 $a20211214i20212021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley$fKatharine Scott, Christine Buckingham 210 $cArchaeopress Publishing$d2021 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cArchaeopress Publishing,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 330 $aToday the Upper Thames Valley is a region of green pastures and well-managed farmland, interspersed with pretty villages and intersected by a meandering river. The discovery in 1989 of a mammoth tusk in river gravels at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, revealed the very different ancient past of this landscape. Here, some 200,000 years ago, mammoths, straight-tusked elephants, lions, and other animals roamed across grasslands with scattered trees, occasionally disturbed by small bands of Neanderthals. The pit where the tusk was discovered, destined to become a waste disposal site, provided a rare opportunity to conduct intensive excavations that extended over a period of 10 years. This work resulted in the recording and recovery of more than 1500 vertebrate fossils and an abundance of other biological material, including insects, molluscs, and plant remains, together with 36 stone artefacts attributable to Neanderthals. The well-preserved plant remains include leaves, nuts, twigs and large oak logs. Vertebrate remains notably include the most comprehensive known assemblage of a distinctive small form of the steppe mammoth, Mammuthus trogontherii, that is characteristic of an interglacial period equated with marine isotope stage 7 (MIS 7). Richly illustrated throughout, Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley offers a detailed account of all these finds and will be of interest to Quaternary specialists and students alike. 606 $aScience / Paleontology$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science / Archaeology$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 607 $aStanton Harcourt (England)$xAntiquities 615 7$aScience / Paleontology 615 7$aSocial Science / Archaeology 615 0$aSocial sciences. 676 $a936.22 700 $aScott$b Katharine$c(Medium),$01881872 702 $aBuckingham$b Christine 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645970303321 996 $aMammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley$94496753 997 $aUNINA