caa a22 4500 445362200 CHVBK 20180317142918.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10963-011-9043-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10963-011-9043-9 The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: An Interpretative Synthesis of Neanderthal Occupation at the Northwestern Edge of the Pleistocene World [Elektronische Daten] [Mark White, Paul Pettitt] The British Middle Palaeolithic is divided into two discrete periods of occupation: the Early Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 9-7, ~330-180ka BP) and the Late Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 3, ~59-36ka BP), separated by a long hiatus. Owing to the relative poverty of the record and historical difficulties in dating and correlating archaeological sites, the British Late Middle Palaeolithic has, until recently, received scant attention, and has largely been regarded as the poor man of Europe, especially by British archaeologists. Indeed, there has been more discussion of the absence of humans from Britain than of what they did when they were present. We aim here to redress that situation. Following from recent considerations of the Early Middle Palaeolithic (White et al. in J. Quat. Sci. 21:525-542, 2006; Scott, Becoming Neanderthal, Oxbow, Oxford, 2010), we offer an interpretative synthesis of the British Late Middle Palaeolithic, situating ‘British' Neanderthals in their chronological, environmental and landscape contexts. We discuss the character of the British record, and offer an account of Neanderthal behaviour, settlement systems and technological practices at the northwestern edge of their known Upper Pleistocene range. We also examine the relationship of the enigmatic Early Upper Palaeolithic leafpoint assemblages to Neanderthals. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Britain nationallicence Neanderthals nationallicence Late Middle Palaeolithic nationallicence Doggerland nationallicence White Mark Department of Archaeology, Durham University, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK aut Pettitt Paul Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, S1 4ET, Sheffield, UK aut Journal of World Prehistory Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/1(2011-05-01), 25-97 0892-7537 24:1<25 2011 24 10963 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-011-9043-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-011-9043-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- White Mark Department of Archaeology, Durham University, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pettitt Paul Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, S1 4ET, Sheffield, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of World Prehistory Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/1(2011-05-01), 25-97 0892-7537 24:1<25 2011 24 10963 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer