Philip Allsworth-Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 295975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Allsworth-Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Allsworth-Jones |
| SIGNATURE | ALLSWORTH-JONES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The West African Stone Age
In terms of artefacts present, West Africa is not short of evidence relating to human occupation during the Quaternary. The problem hitherto has been one of context and dating; there has been some progress in this regard but poor preservation conditions still restrict the presence of organic remains prior to the beginning of the Late Stone Age (LSA). Nonetheless, an excellent climatic record for the last 520 kya has been established on the basis …
The Middle Stone Age of Nigeria in its West African Context
The Middle Palaeolithic Site of Buzdujeni in Moldova: Establishing the Archaeological and Environmental Record
Brînzeni: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Upper Palaeolithic site in Moldova
Brînzeni cave occupies an important place in the Palaeolithic of Moldova. Its significance is reconsidered in the light of work carried out at the site in 1992–1993 and subsequently, and the opportunity is taken to bring together both published and previously unpublished reports about it, to shed light on its environmental history and archaeological characterisation. On current evidence, the principal occupation layer occupies a chronologically i…
Rock Art Sites in Jamaica and their Ethnographic Interpretation
26 sites with Pre-Columbian (Taíno) rock art are known in Jamaica, most with petroglyphs only, but there are four with painted images, and three of these are discussed: Mountain River Cave, Potoo Hole, and Spot Valley Cave. In addition, an account is given of the Warminster rock shelter, which has petroglyphs described as among the best remaining in Jamaica. Spot Valley Cave was newly surveyed in 2005, with the help of the Jamaican Caves Organiza…
Ugwuele-Uturu: A Lithic Exploitation Site in South-East Nigeria
The site of Ugwuele-Uturu was discovered in 1977 and excavated on two occasions between then and 1981. A number of general accounts were produced by the excavators, but to a large extent the site remains unpublished. No detailed account of the excavations or of the excavated material is widely available. In the meantime, controversy as to what the site represents continues, in the light of F.N. Anozie’s claim that it is Acheulean. This paper prov…
Remembering Stephen G.H. Daniels
Treponematosis in Pre-Columbian Jamaica: A biocultural approach to the human cranium found in Bull Savannah
Itaakpa, a Late Stone Age site in southwestern Nigeria
Itaakpa rockshelter was excavated in three short field seasons, from 1985 to 1988, during which a human maxilla and mandible were found in a context characteristic of the ceramic phase of the West African Late Stone Age (LSA). An AMS date of 2210±80 b.p. was obtained from burned palm kernels from the same level. There was no apparent stratigraphic or archaeological break between this level and the layers above, and the pottery indicates continuit…
The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology
BACKGROUND: In recent years the Later Stone Age has been redated to a much deeper time depth than previously thought. At the same time, human remains from this time period are scarce in Africa, and even rarer in West Africa. The Iwo Eleru burial is one of the few human skeletal remains associated with Later Stone Age artifacts in that region with a proposed Pleistocene date. We undertook a morphometric reanalysis of this cranium in order to bette…
Pots and people in Eurasia: Two recent Russian publications - Y.B. Tsetlin, N.P. Salugina & I.N. Vasileva (ed.). Ancient pottery production: results and prospects of investigation (Festschrift in hono…
Pots and people in Eurasia: two recent Russian publications - Y.B. Tsetlin, N.P. Salugina & I.N. Vasileva (ed.). Ancient pottery production: results and prospects of investigation (Festschrift in honour of Alexander A. Bobrinsky). 258 pages, 90 illustrations, 73 tables. 2010. Moscow: Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 978-5-94375-092-2 hardback (in Russian with English chapter summaries). - H.V. Volkova The Novinki buria…
Pathological evidence in the Pre-Columbian human remains from the Lee Collection (Jamaica)
The Archaeology Laboratory in the Department of History and Archaeology at UWI has housed the James W. Lee Collection of Arawak artefacts and human remains since 2000.A complete database is being prepared by two of the authors (PAJ and ER) as part of a project under the auspices of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute.The collection spans a total of 265 sites and was collected over a 27 year period .Eight caves and 16 open-air sites produced human remai…
Le Jankovichien: Une civilisation paleolithique en Hongrie
Hunters between East and West: The Paleolithic of Moravia
Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research. Pleistocene Paleoenvironments V. Lozek. Patterns of Human Evolution E. Vlcek Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background. Origins of the Upper Paleolithic. Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic. Western Invasion. Creating Settlement Systems. Appendix A: Catalog of Important Sites. Appendix B: List of Sites. Index
The Upper Palaeolithic Site of Ciuntu on the Middle Pruth, Moldova: A multidisciplinary study and reinterpretation
The Ciuntu rockshelter is situated in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova, on the left bank of the river Pruth. It has a single Upper Palaeolithic layer of occupation, which was originally regarded as Early Upper Palaeolithic and was assigned to the Brinzeni archaeological culture. More recent investigations, including radiocarbon dating, have led to a revision of this suggested age and classification. The site is now regarded as be…
AMS Dates from Formozov's Excavations at Starosel'e in the Crimea
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Continuity and Change in Yoruba Pottery
Mrs. A.K. Fatunsin's Yoruba pottery (Lagos, 1992) is the outcome of a project funded by the Ford Foundation (grant no. 875-1066) as part of its continuing programme 'to preserve and interpret diverse aspects of West Africa's cultural heritage'. The intention of the project as suggested to them in 1985 by this author was that it should 'go beyond the mere collection of artefacts'. Emphasis was to be 'placed on techniques of pottery manufacture, so…
A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum: New factory sites and an associated settlement in the Vallée du Serpent, Mali
The Archaeology of Archaic and Early ModernHomo Sapiens: An African Perspective
Whereas in Europe the transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic and the replacement of Neanderthal by anatomically modern humans appear to be synchronous events, in Africa this is not the case. Neanderthals as such were not present in Africa, and if the ‘Out of Africa’ model is correct, the ancestors of anatomically modern humans must have made their appearance in a Middle Stone Age context before 100,000 years ago. Subsequently, it seems that…
Upper Pleistocene Hominid Evolution in South-Central Europe: A Review of the Evidence and Analysis of Trends [and Comments and Reply]
South-Central Europe has yielded rather large and significant samples of archaic and early modern Homo sapiens dated to the Upper Pleistocene. These hominid samples have received proportionately little detailed consideration in discussions of the nature of the relationship between archaic and modern Homo sapiens in Europe. The First purpose of this paper is to review this material. The second purpose of this paper is to review this material. The …
A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum: New factory sites and an associated settlement in the Vallée du Serpent, Mali
Continuity and Change in Yoruba Pottery
Mrs. A.K. Fatunsin's Yoruba pottery (Lagos, 1992) is the outcome of a project funded by the Ford Foundation (grant no. 875-1066) as part of its continuing programme 'to preserve and interpret diverse aspects of West Africa's cultural heritage'. The intention of the project as suggested to them in 1985 by this author was that it should 'go beyond the mere collection of artefacts'. Emphasis was to be 'placed on techniques of pottery manufacture, so…
The Middle Stone Age of Nigeria in its West African Context
Brînzeni: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Upper Palaeolithic site in Moldova
Brînzeni cave occupies an important place in the Palaeolithic of Moldova. Its significance is reconsidered in the light of work carried out at the site in 1992–1993 and subsequently, and the opportunity is taken to bring together both published and previously unpublished reports about it, to shed light on its environmental history and archaeological characterisation. On current evidence, the principal occupation layer occupies a chronologically i…
The Archaeology of Archaic and Early ModernHomo Sapiens: An African Perspective
Whereas in Europe the transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic and the replacement of Neanderthal by anatomically modern humans appear to be synchronous events, in Africa this is not the case. Neanderthals as such were not present in Africa, and if the ‘Out of Africa’ model is correct, the ancestors of anatomically modern humans must have made their appearance in a Middle Stone Age context before 100,000 years ago. Subsequently, it seems that…
Treponematosis in Pre-Columbian Jamaica: A biocultural approach to the human cranium found in Bull Savannah
The Upper Palaeolithic Site of Ciuntu on the Middle Pruth, Moldova: A multidisciplinary study and reinterpretation
The Ciuntu rockshelter is situated in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova, on the left bank of the river Pruth. It has a single Upper Palaeolithic layer of occupation, which was originally regarded as Early Upper Palaeolithic and was assigned to the Brinzeni archaeological culture. More recent investigations, including radiocarbon dating, have led to a revision of this suggested age and classification. The site is now regarded as be…
Itaakpa, a Late Stone Age site in southwestern Nigeria
Itaakpa rockshelter was excavated in three short field seasons, from 1985 to 1988, during which a human maxilla and mandible were found in a context characteristic of the ceramic phase of the West African Late Stone Age (LSA). An AMS date of 2210±80 b.p. was obtained from burned palm kernels from the same level. There was no apparent stratigraphic or archaeological break between this level and the layers above, and the pottery indicates continuit…
The West African Stone Age
In terms of artefacts present, West Africa is not short of evidence relating to human occupation during the Quaternary. The problem hitherto has been one of context and dating; there has been some progress in this regard but poor preservation conditions still restrict the presence of organic remains prior to the beginning of the Late Stone Age (LSA). Nonetheless, an excellent climatic record for the last 520 kya has been established on the basis …
Pathological evidence in the Pre-Columbian human remains from the Lee Collection (Jamaica)
The Archaeology Laboratory in the Department of History and Archaeology at UWI has housed the James W. Lee Collection of Arawak artefacts and human remains since 2000.A complete database is being prepared by two of the authors (PAJ and ER) as part of a project under the auspices of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute.The collection spans a total of 265 sites and was collected over a 27 year period .Eight caves and 16 open-air sites produced human remai…
Upper Pleistocene Hominid Evolution in South-Central Europe: A Review of the Evidence and Analysis of Trends [and Comments and Reply]
South-Central Europe has yielded rather large and significant samples of archaic and early modern Homo sapiens dated to the Upper Pleistocene. These hominid samples have received proportionately little detailed consideration in discussions of the nature of the relationship between archaic and modern Homo sapiens in Europe. The First purpose of this paper is to review this material. The second purpose of this paper is to review this material. The …
The Archaeology of Archaic and Early ModernHomo Sapiens: An African Perspective
Whereas in Europe the transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic and the replacement of Neanderthal by anatomically modern humans appear to be synchronous events, in Africa this is not the case. Neanderthals as such were not present in Africa, and if the ‘Out of Africa’ model is correct, the ancestors of anatomically modern humans must have made their appearance in a Middle Stone Age context before 100,000 years ago. Subsequently, it seems that…
A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum: New factory sites and an associated settlement in the Vallée du Serpent, Mali
AMS Dates from Formozov's Excavations at Starosel'e in the Crimea
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Continuity and Change in Yoruba Pottery
Mrs. A.K. Fatunsin's Yoruba pottery (Lagos, 1992) is the outcome of a project funded by the Ford Foundation (grant no. 875-1066) as part of its continuing programme 'to preserve and interpret diverse aspects of West Africa's cultural heritage'. The intention of the project as suggested to them in 1985 by this author was that it should 'go beyond the mere collection of artefacts'. Emphasis was to be 'placed on techniques of pottery manufacture, so…
The Upper Palaeolithic Site of Ciuntu on the Middle Pruth, Moldova: A multidisciplinary study and reinterpretation
The Ciuntu rockshelter is situated in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova, on the left bank of the river Pruth. It has a single Upper Palaeolithic layer of occupation, which was originally regarded as Early Upper Palaeolithic and was assigned to the Brinzeni archaeological culture. More recent investigations, including radiocarbon dating, have led to a revision of this suggested age and classification. The site is now regarded as be…
Le Jankovichien: Une civilisation paleolithique en Hongrie
Hunters between East and West: The Paleolithic of Moravia
Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research. Pleistocene Paleoenvironments V. Lozek. Patterns of Human Evolution E. Vlcek Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background. Origins of the Upper Paleolithic. Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic. Western Invasion. Creating Settlement Systems. Appendix A: Catalog of Important Sites. Appendix B: List of Sites. Index
Pathological evidence in the Pre-Columbian human remains from the Lee Collection (Jamaica)
The Archaeology Laboratory in the Department of History and Archaeology at UWI has housed the James W. Lee Collection of Arawak artefacts and human remains since 2000.A complete database is being prepared by two of the authors (PAJ and ER) as part of a project under the auspices of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute.The collection spans a total of 265 sites and was collected over a 27 year period .Eight caves and 16 open-air sites produced human remai…
The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology
BACKGROUND: In recent years the Later Stone Age has been redated to a much deeper time depth than previously thought. At the same time, human remains from this time period are scarce in Africa, and even rarer in West Africa. The Iwo Eleru burial is one of the few human skeletal remains associated with Later Stone Age artifacts in that region with a proposed Pleistocene date. We undertook a morphometric reanalysis of this cranium in order to bette…
Pots and people in Eurasia: Two recent Russian publications - Y.B. Tsetlin, N.P. Salugina & I.N. Vasileva (ed.). Ancient pottery production: results and prospects of investigation (Festschrift in hono…
Pots and people in Eurasia: two recent Russian publications - Y.B. Tsetlin, N.P. Salugina & I.N. Vasileva (ed.). Ancient pottery production: results and prospects of investigation (Festschrift in honour of Alexander A. Bobrinsky). 258 pages, 90 illustrations, 73 tables. 2010. Moscow: Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 978-5-94375-092-2 hardback (in Russian with English chapter summaries). - H.V. Volkova The Novinki buria…
Treponematosis in Pre-Columbian Jamaica: A biocultural approach to the human cranium found in Bull Savannah
Itaakpa, a Late Stone Age site in southwestern Nigeria
Itaakpa rockshelter was excavated in three short field seasons, from 1985 to 1988, during which a human maxilla and mandible were found in a context characteristic of the ceramic phase of the West African Late Stone Age (LSA). An AMS date of 2210±80 b.p. was obtained from burned palm kernels from the same level. There was no apparent stratigraphic or archaeological break between this level and the layers above, and the pottery indicates continuit…
Remembering Stephen G.H. Daniels
Ugwuele-Uturu: A Lithic Exploitation Site in South-East Nigeria
The site of Ugwuele-Uturu was discovered in 1977 and excavated on two occasions between then and 1981. A number of general accounts were produced by the excavators, but to a large extent the site remains unpublished. No detailed account of the excavations or of the excavated material is widely available. In the meantime, controversy as to what the site represents continues, in the light of F.N. Anozie’s claim that it is Acheulean. This paper prov…
Rock Art Sites in Jamaica and their Ethnographic Interpretation
26 sites with Pre-Columbian (Taíno) rock art are known in Jamaica, most with petroglyphs only, but there are four with painted images, and three of these are discussed: Mountain River Cave, Potoo Hole, and Spot Valley Cave. In addition, an account is given of the Warminster rock shelter, which has petroglyphs described as among the best remaining in Jamaica. Spot Valley Cave was newly surveyed in 2005, with the help of the Jamaican Caves Organiza…
The Middle Palaeolithic Site of Buzdujeni in Moldova: Establishing the Archaeological and Environmental Record
Brînzeni: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Upper Palaeolithic site in Moldova
Brînzeni cave occupies an important place in the Palaeolithic of Moldova. Its significance is reconsidered in the light of work carried out at the site in 1992–1993 and subsequently, and the opportunity is taken to bring together both published and previously unpublished reports about it, to shed light on its environmental history and archaeological characterisation. On current evidence, the principal occupation layer occupies a chronologically i…
The Middle Stone Age of Nigeria in its West African Context
The West African Stone Age
In terms of artefacts present, West Africa is not short of evidence relating to human occupation during the Quaternary. The problem hitherto has been one of context and dating; there has been some progress in this regard but poor preservation conditions still restrict the presence of organic remains prior to the beginning of the Late Stone Age (LSA). Nonetheless, an excellent climatic record for the last 520 kya has been established on the basis …
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