Taphonomic and technological analyses of Lower Palaeolithic bone tools from Clacton-on-Sea, UK.

ABSTRACT: The exceptional survival of Middle Pleistocene wooden spears at Schöningen (Germany) and Clacton-on-Sea (UK) provides tantalizing evidence for the widespread use of organic raw materials by early humans. At Clacton, less well-known organic artefacts include modified bones that were identified by the Abbé Henri Breuil in the 1920s. Some of these pieces were described and figured by Hazzledine Warren in his classic 1951 paper on the flint industry from the Clacton Channel, but they have been either overlooked in subsequent studies or dismissed as the product of natural damage. We provide the first detailed analysis of two Clactonian bone tools found by Warren and a previously unrecognized example recovered in 1934 during excavations directed by Mary Leakey. Microscopic examination of percuss

SUBMITTER: Parfitt SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9684524 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature