R Hosfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 32090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Hosfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hosfield |
| SIGNATURE | HOSFIELD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6357-2805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–11
Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13-11 saw a major transformation in the hominin occupation of Europe, with an expansion in the scale and geographical distribution of sites and artifact assemblages. That expansion is explored here in the context of paleoenvironmental variability, focusing on geographical and chronological trends in climatic and habitat conditions at and between key Lower Paleolithic sites in Western Europe. Climatic conditions at Brit…
Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt & Mark Roberts. 2020. The horse butchery site: A high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. Woking: Spoilheap Publications; 978-1912331154…
Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt & Mark Roberts. 2020. The horse butchery site: a high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. Woking: Spoilheap Publications; 978-1912331154 paperback £25. - Volume 95 Issue 383
Fire in the round: A holistic approach to the Lower Palaeolithic record
Lower and Early Middle Palaeolithic of Southern Britain: The Evidence from the River Test
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5
Lithic artifact assemblage transport and microwear modification in a fluvial setting: A radio frequency identification tag experiment
River processes are widely assumed to have impacted the integrity of lithic assemblages when artifacts are found in fluvial sediments, but the specifics of these influences remain largely unknown. We conducted a real‐world experiment to determine how the initial stages of fluvial entrainment affected lithic artifact assemblages. We inserted replica artifacts with radio frequency identification tags into a gravel‐bedded river in Wales (UK) for sev…
Less of a bird's song than a hard rock ensemble
Corbey et al. (2016) propose that the Acheulean handaxe was, at least in part, under genetic control. An alternative perspective is offered here, focusing on the nature of the Acheulean handaxe and the archaeological record, and re‐emphasizing their status as cultural artefacts. This is based on four main arguments challenging the proposals of Corbey et al. Firstly, handaxes do not have to track environmental variation to be a cultural artefact, …
The Institute’s 2016 Summer Meeting
A Reply to Gilligan
Walking in a Winter Wonderland? Strategies for Early and Middle Pleistocene Survival in Midlatitude Europe
Any occupation of northern Europe by Lower Palaeolithic hominins, even those occurring during full interglacials, must have addressed the challenges of marked seasonality and cold winters. These would have included the problems of: wind-chill and frostbite; duration, distribution and depth of snow-cover; reduced daylight hours; and distribution and availability of animal and plant foods. Solutions can essentially be characterised as a ‘stick or t…
From Hand to Handle: The First Industrial Revolution, by Lawrence Barham
This is a very accessible, timely, and thought-provoking exploration of the earliest hafted artefacts in human (pre)history. The central thesis is that innovations occur via ‘combinatorial evolutio
Micro-abrasion of flint artifacts by mobile sediments: A Taphonomic Approach
Recent Work at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England
Changes in the geological interpretation of the history of the ancient Solent river basin have focused attention on the handaxes discovered in the Corfe Mullen area during quarrying before the Second World War. Recent geological research suggests that the fluvial terrace the handaxes are associated with may pre-date the Anglian glaciation. This is important because it contributes to the question of just when the Solent basin was first occupied by…
Mapping the Human Record: Population Change in Britain During the Early Palaeolithic
Genuine Diversity? The Broom Biface Assemblage
The Broom Lower Palaeolithic locality, on the river Axe at the Devon/Dorset border in south-western Britain, yielded an assemblage of at least 1800 Acheulean artefacts between the 1870s and 1940s through gravel quarrying and antiquarian collection. The bifacial material, predominantly produced in chert but including a small flint component, is characterised by considerable typological diversity and a distinctive asymmetrical element. While aspect…
Terrestrial implications for the maritime geoarchaeological resource: A view from the Lower Palaeolithic
Why are some handaxes symmetrical? Testing the influence of handaxe morphology on butchery effectiveness
The Palaeolithic of the Hampshire Basin: A regional model of hominid behaviour during the Middle Pleistocene
The book explores the potential of geographic information systems (GIS) techniques to reduce the difficulties encountered while dealing with vast lithic data from the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic and support analysis and interpretation of all the available archaeological evidence. The topics discussed are spatial modelling of the industrial landscape and long-term modelling of hominid behaviour
Why are some handaxes symmetrical? Testing the influence of handaxe morphology on butchery effectiveness
Walking in a Winter Wonderland? Strategies for Early and Middle Pleistocene Survival in Midlatitude Europe
Any occupation of northern Europe by Lower Palaeolithic hominins, even those occurring during full interglacials, must have addressed the challenges of marked seasonality and cold winters. These would have included the problems of: wind-chill and frostbite; duration, distribution and depth of snow-cover; reduced daylight hours; and distribution and availability of animal and plant foods. Solutions can essentially be characterised as a ‘stick or t…
Micro-abrasion of flint artifacts by mobile sediments: A Taphonomic Approach
Recent Work at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England
Changes in the geological interpretation of the history of the ancient Solent river basin have focused attention on the handaxes discovered in the Corfe Mullen area during quarrying before the Second World War. Recent geological research suggests that the fluvial terrace the handaxes are associated with may pre-date the Anglian glaciation. This is important because it contributes to the question of just when the Solent basin was first occupied by…
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5
Lithic artifact assemblage transport and microwear modification in a fluvial setting: A radio frequency identification tag experiment
River processes are widely assumed to have impacted the integrity of lithic assemblages when artifacts are found in fluvial sediments, but the specifics of these influences remain largely unknown. We conducted a real‐world experiment to determine how the initial stages of fluvial entrainment affected lithic artifact assemblages. We inserted replica artifacts with radio frequency identification tags into a gravel‐bedded river in Wales (UK) for sev…
Lower and Early Middle Palaeolithic of Southern Britain: The Evidence from the River Test
Fire in the round: A holistic approach to the Lower Palaeolithic record
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–11
Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13-11 saw a major transformation in the hominin occupation of Europe, with an expansion in the scale and geographical distribution of sites and artifact assemblages. That expansion is explored here in the context of paleoenvironmental variability, focusing on geographical and chronological trends in climatic and habitat conditions at and between key Lower Paleolithic sites in Western Europe. Climatic conditions at Brit…
Genuine Diversity? The Broom Biface Assemblage
The Broom Lower Palaeolithic locality, on the river Axe at the Devon/Dorset border in south-western Britain, yielded an assemblage of at least 1800 Acheulean artefacts between the 1870s and 1940s through gravel quarrying and antiquarian collection. The bifacial material, predominantly produced in chert but including a small flint component, is characterised by considerable typological diversity and a distinctive asymmetrical element. While aspect…
The Palaeolithic of the Hampshire Basin: A regional model of hominid behaviour during the Middle Pleistocene
The book explores the potential of geographic information systems (GIS) techniques to reduce the difficulties encountered while dealing with vast lithic data from the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic and support analysis and interpretation of all the available archaeological evidence. The topics discussed are spatial modelling of the industrial landscape and long-term modelling of hominid behaviour
Why are some handaxes symmetrical? Testing the influence of handaxe morphology on butchery effectiveness
Terrestrial implications for the maritime geoarchaeological resource: A view from the Lower Palaeolithic
Genuine Diversity? The Broom Biface Assemblage
The Broom Lower Palaeolithic locality, on the river Axe at the Devon/Dorset border in south-western Britain, yielded an assemblage of at least 1800 Acheulean artefacts between the 1870s and 1940s through gravel quarrying and antiquarian collection. The bifacial material, predominantly produced in chert but including a small flint component, is characterised by considerable typological diversity and a distinctive asymmetrical element. While aspect…
Mapping the Human Record: Population Change in Britain During the Early Palaeolithic
Recent Work at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England
Changes in the geological interpretation of the history of the ancient Solent river basin have focused attention on the handaxes discovered in the Corfe Mullen area during quarrying before the Second World War. Recent geological research suggests that the fluvial terrace the handaxes are associated with may pre-date the Anglian glaciation. This is important because it contributes to the question of just when the Solent basin was first occupied by…
From Hand to Handle: The First Industrial Revolution, by Lawrence Barham
This is a very accessible, timely, and thought-provoking exploration of the earliest hafted artefacts in human (pre)history. The central thesis is that innovations occur via ‘combinatorial evolutio
Micro-abrasion of flint artifacts by mobile sediments: A Taphonomic Approach
Walking in a Winter Wonderland? Strategies for Early and Middle Pleistocene Survival in Midlatitude Europe
Any occupation of northern Europe by Lower Palaeolithic hominins, even those occurring during full interglacials, must have addressed the challenges of marked seasonality and cold winters. These would have included the problems of: wind-chill and frostbite; duration, distribution and depth of snow-cover; reduced daylight hours; and distribution and availability of animal and plant foods. Solutions can essentially be characterised as a ‘stick or t…
The Institute’s 2016 Summer Meeting
A Reply to Gilligan
Less of a bird's song than a hard rock ensemble
Corbey et al. (2016) propose that the Acheulean handaxe was, at least in part, under genetic control. An alternative perspective is offered here, focusing on the nature of the Acheulean handaxe and the archaeological record, and re‐emphasizing their status as cultural artefacts. This is based on four main arguments challenging the proposals of Corbey et al. Firstly, handaxes do not have to track environmental variation to be a cultural artefact, …
Lithic artifact assemblage transport and microwear modification in a fluvial setting: A radio frequency identification tag experiment
River processes are widely assumed to have impacted the integrity of lithic assemblages when artifacts are found in fluvial sediments, but the specifics of these influences remain largely unknown. We conducted a real‐world experiment to determine how the initial stages of fluvial entrainment affected lithic artifact assemblages. We inserted replica artifacts with radio frequency identification tags into a gravel‐bedded river in Wales (UK) for sev…
Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt & Mark Roberts. 2020. The horse butchery site: A high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. Woking: Spoilheap Publications; 978-1912331154…
Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt & Mark Roberts. 2020. The horse butchery site: a high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. Woking: Spoilheap Publications; 978-1912331154 paperback £25. - Volume 95 Issue 383
Fire in the round: A holistic approach to the Lower Palaeolithic record
Lower and Early Middle Palaeolithic of Southern Britain: The Evidence from the River Test
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–11
Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13-11 saw a major transformation in the hominin occupation of Europe, with an expansion in the scale and geographical distribution of sites and artifact assemblages. That expansion is explored here in the context of paleoenvironmental variability, focusing on geographical and chronological trends in climatic and habitat conditions at and between key Lower Paleolithic sites in Western Europe. Climatic conditions at Brit…
Archaeology (18 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Paleontology (8 works) · Pleistocene (7 works) · Fluvial (6 works) · History (6 works)