The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain

This book deals with the earliest period of human settlement in Britain, proposing a series of archaeological stages for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods.

Derek A. Roe

Preface 1. Background to the Study of the Old Stone Age in Britain 2. The Pleistocene Background 3. The Search for a Basic Lower Palaeolithic Sequence 4. Expanding the Basic Sequence 5. More Sites, and the Question of Variation 6. The Middle Palaeolithic 7. Towards the Archaeology of the Period: Some Conclusions, Interpretations and Speculations