The stratigraphy and chronology of the fluvial sediments at Warsash,UK: implications for the Palaeolithic archaeology of the River Test |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;2. Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK;3. Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, British Museum, 56 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK;4. Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK;1. Sections of Orthodontics and Oral Biology, UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA;2. C. Wolfe Software Engineering, 13376 Dronfield Avenue, Sylmar, CA 91342, USA;3. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Kaiser Permanente, Lancaster, CA 93534, USA;1. Department of Civil Engineering, Late G N Sapkal College of Engineering, Nashik 422213, India;2. Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, Netherlands;1. Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland;2. Warsaw University, Biology Department, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Miecznikowa 3, Warsaw, Poland;3. Biophysics of Macromolecules, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany;4. Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany;5. INSERM U1151, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France;1. Université de Toulouse, UPS GET, 14 avenue E. Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France;2. CNRS, GET, 14 avenue E. Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France;3. IRD, UR 234, GET, 14 avenue E. Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France;4. Normandie University, France;5. UCBN, M2C, F-14000 Caen, France;6. CNRS, UMR 6143 M2C, F-14000 Caen, France;7. CNRS, ISTerre, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France;8. Université de Lille 1, CNRS, Géosystèmes, Villeneuve D’Ascq, France;9. Département de Géologie, EA4098 LaRGe Labo. de Rech. en Géosciences, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Campus de Fouillole – 97159 Pointe à Pitre Cedex, Guadeloupe (FWI), France |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports new fieldwork at Warsash which clarifies the terrace stratigraphic framework of the Palaeolithic archaeology of the region. Sections were recorded in former gravel pits and at coastal locations, supplemented by the use of ground penetrating radar and luminescence dating techniques. The region’s extensive borehole archive was also analysed to produce a revised terrace stratigraphy at Warsash and for the Test valley as a whole. At Warsash, some of the sediments previously identified as the Mottisfont/Lower Warsash Terrace are reassigned to the Hamble, Belbin/Upper Warsash and Ganger Wood/Mallards Moor Terraces. A luminescence dating programme, using test procedures not utilised in earlier dating studies in the region, yielded age estimates for the Hamble and Mottisfont/Lower Warsash Terraces at Warsash and also highlighted the complicated nature of the fluvial sediments of the River Test, suggesting that published luminescence ages for these deposits should be treated with some caution. This study indicates that the data used to construct terrace stratigraphies also requires careful assessment. The use of bedrock height and sediment thickness data produces more coherent long profile correlations than those produced by terrace surface data alone. The revised terrace stratigraphy provides the framework for the Palaeolithic archaeology at Warsash and clarifies correlations within and between archaeologically important sediments of the Test Valley, enabling it to contribute to discussions on the Lower-Middle Pleistocene settlement history of southern Britain. |
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| Keywords: | Lower-Middle Pleistocene Warsash Solent River terrace stratigraphy Long profiles Luminescence dating (IRSL, OSL) |
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