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Gough's Cave
Somerset

 

 

Andrews, P. and Fernández-Jalvo, Y. 2003. Cannibalism in Britain: taphonomy of the Creswellian (Pleistocene) faunal and human remains from Gough's Cave (Somerset, England) Bulletin of The Natural History Museum Geology Series 58 (supp): 59-81.
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Baker, E. E. 1904. Prehistoric man at Cheddar: Programme of the excursion on Saturday. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Axbridge Branch). 4 pp
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Balch, H.E. (1947) Mendip - The Great Cave of Wookey Hole. J. Wright and Sons, Bristol and Simpkin Marshall, London (3rd edn.).
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Balch, H.E. (1948) Mendip - Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. J. Wright and Sons, Bristol and Simpkin Marshall, London (2nd edn.).
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Barton, R.N.E., Jacobi, R.M., Stapert, D. and Street, M. 2003. The Late Glacial reoccupation of the British Isles and the Creswellian. Journal of Quaternary Science, 18: 631-643.
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Bello, S.M., Parfitt, S.A. and Stringer, C.B. 2011. Earliest directly-dated human skull-cups. PLoS ONE 6(2) e17026. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017026
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Bello, S., Parfitt, S. and Stringer, C. 2011. Gough’s Cave, Somerset. British Archaeology 118, 12-19.
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Bello, S.M. 2011. New results from the examination of cut-marks using 3D imaging. In Ashton, N.M., Lewis, S.G. and Stringer, C.B. (eds) The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 249-262.
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Burleigh, R., E. B. Jacobi, and R. M. Jacobi. 1985. Early human resettlement of the British Isles following the last glacial maximum: new evidence from Gough's Cave, Cheddar. Quaternary Newsletter, 45: 1-6.
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Collcutt, S. N. 1986. Analysis of sediments in Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, and their bearing on the Palaeolithic archaeology. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeololgical Society. 17: 129-140.
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Currant, A. and R. Jacobi. 2001. A formal mammalian biostratigraphy for the Late Pleistocene of Britain. Quaternary Science Reviews, 20: 1707-1716.
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Currant, A.P., Jacobi, R.M., Stringer, C.B. 1989. Excavations at Gough’s Cave, Somerset 1986-7. Antiquity 63, 131–136.
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Currant, A. (1986) The Lateglacial mammal fauna of Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 17, 286-304.
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Currant, A. P. 1987. Late Pleistocene saiga antelope Saiga tatarica on Mendip. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 18: 74-80.
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Davies, H. N. 1904. The discovery of human remains under the stalagmite-floor of Gough's Cavern, Cheddar. Quarterly Journal of of the Geological Society of London, 60: 335-348.
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Donovan, D. T. 1955. The Pleistocene deposits at Gough's Cave, Cheddar, including an account of recent excavations. Proceedings of the University Bristol Spelaeological Society, 7: 76-104.
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Humphrey, L. and Stringer, C. 2002. The human cranial remains from Gough's Cave (Somerset, England). Bull.Br.Mus.nat.Hist.(Geol.) 58: 153-168.
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Jacobi, R.M. and Higham, T.F.G. 2009. The early Lateglacial re-colonisation of Britain: New radiocarbon evidence from Gough’s Cave. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 1895-1913.
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Jacobi, R.M. and Higham, T.F.G. 2011. The Later Upper Palaeolithic re-colonization of Britain: New results from AMS radiocarbon dating. In Ashton, N.M., Lewis, S.G. and Stringer, C.B. (eds) The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 223-247.
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Jacobi, R. M. 1986. The history and literature of Pleistocene discoveries at Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 17: 102-115.
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Jacobi, R. M. 2000. The Late Pleistocene of Somerset. Pp. 45-52 in C. J. Webster (ed.), Somerset Archaeology: Papers to Mark 150 Years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Somerset County Counsel.
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Jacobi, R.M. 2004. The Late Upper Palaeolithic lithic collection from Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset and human use of the cave. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 70, 1-92
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Leroi-Gourhan, A. and R. M. Jacobi. 1986. Analyse pollinique et matérial archéologique de Gough's Cave (Cheddar, Somerset). Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Français, 83: 83-90.
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Leroi-Gourhan, A. 1986. Pollen analysis of sediment samples from Gough's Cave, Cheddar. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 17: 141-144.
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Oxford radiocarbon database, 2012. T. Higham and K. Douka.
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Parkin, R.A., Rowley-Conwy, P. and Serjeantson, D. 1986. Late Palaeolithic exploitation of horse and red deer at Gough’s Cave, Cheddar, Somerset. Proc. Univ. Bristol Spelaeological Soc. 17, 311–330.
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Price, C. R. 2003. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Small Mammals in Southwest Britain: Environmental and Taphonomic Implications and their Role in Archaeological Research. Archaeopress, Oxford.
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Copyright 1990, Ruth Charles
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Stringer, C. B. 1986. The hominid remains from Gough's Cave. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 17: 145-152.
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Stringer, C. B. 1986. Direct dates for the fossil hominid record. Pp. 45-50 in J. A. J. Gowlett and R. E. M. Hedges (eds.), Archaeological Results from Accelerator Dating. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Oxford.
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Stringer, C. B. 2000. The Gough's Cave human fossils: an introduction. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum London (Geology), 56: 135-139
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Stringer. C. B. 2006. Homo britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain. Penguin/Allen Lane: London. 319 pp.
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Trinkaus, E., Humphrey, L., Stringer, C., Churchill, S. and Tague, R. 2003. Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of the sex and age at death. Bulletin of The Natural History Museum Geology Series 58 (supp): 45-50
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