Francis Wenban-Smith

Biographic Data

ID351728
NAMEFrancis Wenban-Smith
GIVEN NAMESFrancis
FAMILY NAMEWenban-Smith
SIGNATUREWENBAN-SMITH F
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS171
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution: Landscapes in Mind

    Open AccessNick Ashton, C Gosden et al.BOOKSettlement, Society and Cognition…2015

    This volume provides a landscape narrative of early hominin evolution, linking conventional material and geographic aspects of the early archaeological record with wider and more elusive social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes. It seeks to move beyond a limiting notion of early hominin culture and behaviour as dictated solely by the environment to present the early hominin world as the outcome of a dynamic dialogue between the physical environm…

  • The Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Britain

    Open AccessFrancis Wenban-Smith, Francis Wenban‐SmithARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2001

  • J. E. Scoot-Jackson. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts from deposits mapped as Clay-with-fints: A new synthesis with significant implications for the earliest occupation of Britain. ix+180 pages…

    Open AccessFrancis Wenban-Smith, Francis Wenban‐SmithARTICLEAntiquity2001

    J. E. Scoot-Jackson. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts from deposits mapped as Clay-with-fints: a new synthesis with significant implications for the earliest occupation of Britain. ix+180 pages, 79 figures, 15 tables. 2000. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-005-8 paperback £30. - Volume 75 Issue 290

  • Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Swan Valley Community School, Swanscombe, Kent

    Open AccessFrancis Wenban-Smith, Francis Wenban‐Smith et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2001Cited by: 22References: 16

    This paper reports on the recovery of Palaeolithic flint artefacts and faunal remains from fluvial gravels at the base of a sequence of Pleistocene sediments revealed during construction works at two sites to the south of Swanscombe village, Kent. Although outside the mapped extent of the Boyn Hill/Orsett Heath Formation, the newly discovered deposits can be firmly correlated with the Middle Gravels and Upper Loam from the Barnfield Pit sequence …

  • The Lower Palaeolithic Site at Red Barns, Portchester, Hampshire: Bifacial Technology, Raw Material Quality, and the Organisation of Archaic Behaviour

    Open AccessFrancis Wenban-Smith, Francis Wenban‐Smith et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2000Cited by: 29References: 31

    The site at Red Barns was excavated in 1975, but the large lithic collection remained unstudied following preliminary examination. This paper reports on further analysis of the lithic material from the site, together with a reappraisal of the faunal remains and original mineralogical analyses, and the results of processing sediment samples from the 1975 excavation. An abundant molluscan assemblage was recovered from the deposits covering the main…

  • Stone Tools and the Linguistic Capabilities of Earlier Hominids

    Open AccessJames Steele, Angus R Quinlan et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal1995Cited by: 2References: 30

    The evolution of human manipulative abilities may be clearly linked to the evolution of speech motor control Both creativity and complexity in vocal and manipulative gestures may be closely linked to a single dimension of brain evolution — the evolution of absolute brain size. Inferring the linguistic capabilities of earlier hominids from their lithic artefacts, however, required us to take account of domain-specific constraints on manipulative s…

  • Early Palaeolithic Cultural Facies and the Levalloisian at Baker's Hole

    Open AccessFrancis Wenban-Smith, Francis Wenban‐SmithARTICLEPapers from the Institute of…1992

    The purpose of this short paper is to use the lithic material recovered from the site of Baker's Hole to demonstrate the point that the classificatory framework generally in operation for British, and also other European, Early Palaeolithic lithic material is overly simplified. The pigeon-holing of assemblages into one of a restricted number of industrial variants, or cultural facies, based on the presence and relative predominance of selected to…

  • Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies]

    Wil Roebroeks, N J Conard et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1992Cited by: 118

  • The Location of Baker's Hole

    Open AccessFrancis Wenban-Smith, Francis Wenban‐SmithARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…1990References: 3

    A map made by F. N Hayward showing the location of the Lower Palaeolithic site of Baker's Hole, found in the Hayward Archive stored by the British Museum at Franks House, shows that the site was not at the location suggested by modern authors. The new location, near some remnant Pleistocene deposits, opens the possibility of using modern techniques to date the archaeological material recovered from the site in 1909