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Eoliths from France, Belgium and England.

Example of natural "frost-pitting" in flint.

Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley. Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berks. Cannoncourt Farm pit, section in gravels in the Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace.

Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley. Mansion Lane, Iver, Bucks. Section worked in Iver Terrace.

Plan of classic Pyrenean cave, Ariege.

Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley. Cannoncourt Farm, Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berks. Section in pit worked in the Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace.

Example of starch fracture in flint.

Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley. Stack of brickearth in Cooper's Pit, Cannoncourt Farm, Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berks. Lent Rise-Furze platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace.

Weathered granite rock-outcrop on Dartmoor, Devon.

Maps showing the Bristol area. 1. The basin of the Bristol Avon. 2. Distribution of lower Palaeolithic discoveries around Bristol. 3. Relation of Bristol avon to the rest of the British Isles.

Spuren von Mangelerkrankungen an steinzeitlichen Kinderskeleten = Vestiges of deficiency diseases in Stone Age child skeletons / Petra Carli-Thiele.

Water Hall gravel pit near Hertford, October 1956.

The Neanderthal legacy : an archaeological perspective from western Europe / Paul Mellars.

Primitive civilizations, or, Outlines of the history of ownership in archaic communities / by E.J. Simcox.

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Maps showing the Bristol area. 1. The basin of the Bristol Avon. 2. Distribution of lower Palaeolithic discoveries around Bristol. 3. Relation of Bristol avon to the rest of the British Isles.

Spuren von Mangelerkrankungen an steinzeitlichen Kinderskeleten = Vestiges of deficiency diseases in Stone Age child skeletons / Petra Carli-Thiele.

Water Hall gravel pit near Hertford, October 1956.

The Neanderthal legacy : an archaeological perspective from western Europe / Paul Mellars.

Primitive civilizations, or, Outlines of the history of ownership in archaic communities / by E.J. Simcox.