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Excavations at Gough's Cave, Somerset 1986–7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. P. Currant ,
R. M. Jacobi  and
C. B. Stringer
A. P. Currant
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD
R. M. Jacobi
Affiliation:
Archaeology Section, The University, Nottingham NG7 2RD
C. B. Stringer
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD
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The British Isles, at the northern fringes of human occupation in Pleistocene Europe, offer a collection of Upper Palaeolithic sites which cannot match the riches of the continental mainland. And many of its sites, studied in the 19th century, have been much quarried or even quarried out. New finds from Gough's Cave — one of the classic sites that was almost emptied in the work that made it classic-show, nevertheless, that important new discoveries are still being made from such deposits as remain.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 238 , March 1989 , pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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