Derek Roe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Roe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Roe |
| SIGNATURE | ROE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 923 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain
This book deals with the earliest period of human settlement in Britain, proposing a series of archaeological stages for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods. An introduction on the problems and methods of studying the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene periods leads into the technical argument, a sequence of development derived from evidence of stone artefacts and other signs of human activity at stratified sites in south-east England. Materials …
Benefit of foresight: The way it was
The British Lower Palaeolithic: Out of the Doldrums
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Spanish late Pliocene and early Pleistocene hominid, palaeolithic and faunal finds from Orce (Granada) and Cueva Victoria (Murcia)
Sumnlaary and Overview
This conclusion to the volume should have come from the hand of Glynn Isaac himself, after consultation with all his colleagues in the project. It should be full of the breadth of vision that he brought to the archaeology of the early Palaeolithic, and indeed to all his writing; it should be in his characteristic style; and it should have been written several years ago, at about the time when he would have been a youthful fifty. Though there are …
Olduvai Gorge, Volume 5: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds, 1968-1971
Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds 1968-1971
The Orce Basin (Andalucía, Spain) and the Initial Palaeolithic of Europe
Recent excavations in southern Spain have led to claims that humans were present in this part of Europe much earlier than had been generally believed — perhaps as early as 1.8–1.4 million years ago. The evidence from the Orce basin is summarized and discussed. Initial work at a newly discovered site, Fuentenueva 3a, indicates a good chance that genuine artefacts may indeed be present in early Pleistocene levels. Further excavation at this site ca…
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies]
This paper summarizes the results of recent excavations (1982-90) at the Middle Paleolithic site of Kebara Cave. Work at the cave by earlier excavators is also discussed. Although analysis of the Kebara materials is still far from completed, an overview of the current stage of the investigations includes (1) a synthesis of the site's complex stratigraphy and dating; (2) a description of the spatial patterning of hearths, ash lenses, and bone and …
Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies]
Studies in the Upper Palaeolithic of Britain and Northwest Europe
A Modem Archaeologist
Studying stones: An introduction
1985). Studying stones: An introduction. World Archaeology: Vol. 17, Studying stones, pp. 1-2
A handaxe of Libyan Desert glass
The handaxe of Libyan Desert glass (PL. XIIIb & FIG. I) was found on 23 June 1979, in the Sand Sea of S.W. Egypt, at latitude 25°o8' N, longitude 25° 35·5' E, near the southern boundary of the known distribution area of the glass. Lying just north of the Gilf Kebir, this part of the Sand Sea is characterized by an extensive field of linear dunes, trending almost exactly N-S, which are up to Ioom high, tens of km long, and separated by interdune c…
Introduction: Precise moments in remote time
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
The Clactonian: An Independent Complex or an Integral Part of the Acheulean? [and Comments and Reply]
The Clactonian tradition of the British Lower Palaeolithic is currently accepted as an autonomous prehistoric culture, distinct from the Acheulean and pre-dating it. The recent excavations of a number of central sites have opened up a new opportunity for a comprehensive reinvestigation of Clactonian versus Acheulean artifacts along with other aspects related to the two complexes. This study examines and analyzes an unprecedented quantity of objec…
La Préhistoire Française. Vol. I. Published under the direction of H. de Lumley. II: Pp. xvi + 770 + figs. and pls. (4 colour) in text. 12: pp. xii + 912 + figs. in text. No prices given
La Préhistoire Française. Vol. I. Published under the direction of H. de Lumley. II: pp. xvi + 770 + figs. and pls. (4 colour) in text. 12: pp. xii + 912 + figs. in text. No prices given. - Volume 57 Issue 2
Prehistory: An Introduction
Some Hampshire and Dorset handaxes and the question of ‘Early Acheulian’ in Britain
A Lower Palaeolithic handaxe found a few years ago at St Catherine's Hill, Christ church, is described. Various aspects of its technology and morphology appear archaic, and although it was found in a secondary context, with no clear geological evidence for its true age, relatively old Pleistocene gravels do occur at the summit of the hill. At the Ballast Hole, Corfe Mullen, a few miles west, J. B. Calkin and J. F. N. Green recorded some 25 years …
Prehistory as a Kind of History
Prehistory
Prehistory: The modern approach
There is still an all too frequent tendency for the archaeologist to be popularly regarded as a professional treasure hunter. The prehistorian would be similarly classified, and few people would bother to set him in a separate category. And those who take such a view of him are also inclined to suppose that his sole function is to excavate, and that his equipment, his badge of office almost, is nothing more sophisticated than a spade. If this wer…
Final Palaeolithic Cultures and the Middle Stone Age
The Middle Stone Age or Mesolithic Period has lost something of the meaning originally attributed to it. With the close of the Wiürm glaciation, the west European area which dominated much of the last chapter loses its importance for the moment, and the centre of interest shifts to south-west Asia, where the human groups and the special circumstances existed which were to produce probably the most important breakthrough of the whole of prehistory…
The Iron Age
By Iron Age here is meant the Pre-Roman Iron Age of Europe, since it is the spread of the Roman Empire which brings this short account of prehistory to a close, however incomplete it must thereby remain. The literate civilisation of Rome, for all its stranglehold on the ancient world, did not penetrate to every corner of even Europe: the legions never reached Scandinavia, or central Germany, or even the far west and north of the British Isles, al…
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies]
This paper summarizes the results of recent excavations (1982-90) at the Middle Paleolithic site of Kebara Cave. Work at the cave by earlier excavators is also discussed. Although analysis of the Kebara materials is still far from completed, an overview of the current stage of the investigations includes (1) a synthesis of the site's complex stratigraphy and dating; (2) a description of the spatial patterning of hearths, ash lenses, and bone and …
British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Handaxe Groups
In the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1964, the writer presented (Roe, 1964) an interim report on his programme of research on the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic material, describing methods of studying assemblages of handaxes by metrical and statistical analysis, and outlining the first results obtained. The present paper offers a summary of the final results obtained for certain aspects of the same research project, in partic…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain
This book deals with the earliest period of human settlement in Britain, proposing a series of archaeological stages for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods. An introduction on the problems and methods of studying the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene periods leads into the technical argument, a sequence of development derived from evidence of stone artefacts and other signs of human activity at stratified sites in south-east England. Materials …
Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies]
The British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Some Problems, Methods of Study and Preliminary Results
This is an interim report on a Cambridge Research Thesis which has been in progress for three years, and which will eventually cover the major part of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. The whole project may be divided into four phases: 1. Collection and examination of all the available material; 2. Selection of those groups of implements appropriate for study; 3. Application of objective methods of study, mainly in the field of metrical …
Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds 1968-1971
A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites
The Clactonian: An Independent Complex or an Integral Part of the Acheulean? [and Comments and Reply]
The Clactonian tradition of the British Lower Palaeolithic is currently accepted as an autonomous prehistoric culture, distinct from the Acheulean and pre-dating it. The recent excavations of a number of central sites have opened up a new opportunity for a comprehensive reinvestigation of Clactonian versus Acheulean artifacts along with other aspects related to the two complexes. This study examines and analyzes an unprecedented quantity of objec…
Discrimination of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic handaxe groups using canonical variates
The British handaxe material discussed in this paper has been assiduously collected by Derek Roe and a gazetteer of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites has been published by the Council for British Archaeology as their research report number 8 (Roe i968a). Further publications cover the metrical approach that Roe has adopted in dealing with the handaxes, a preliminary report (I964), and a more comprehensive coverage later (x968b). In …
Introduction: Precise moments in remote time
Spanish late Pliocene and early Pleistocene hominid, palaeolithic and faunal finds from Orce (Granada) and Cueva Victoria (Murcia)
The Orce Basin (Andalucía, Spain) and the Initial Palaeolithic of Europe
Recent excavations in southern Spain have led to claims that humans were present in this part of Europe much earlier than had been generally believed — perhaps as early as 1.8–1.4 million years ago. The evidence from the Orce basin is summarized and discussed. Initial work at a newly discovered site, Fuentenueva 3a, indicates a good chance that genuine artefacts may indeed be present in early Pleistocene levels. Further excavation at this site ca…
Studying stones: An introduction
1985). Studying stones: An introduction. World Archaeology: Vol. 17, Studying stones, pp. 1-2
Prehistory: An Introduction
The British Lower Palaeolithic: Out of the Doldrums
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
A handaxe of Libyan Desert glass
The handaxe of Libyan Desert glass (PL. XIIIb & FIG. I) was found on 23 June 1979, in the Sand Sea of S.W. Egypt, at latitude 25°o8' N, longitude 25° 35·5' E, near the southern boundary of the known distribution area of the glass. Lying just north of the Gilf Kebir, this part of the Sand Sea is characterized by an extensive field of linear dunes, trending almost exactly N-S, which are up to Ioom high, tens of km long, and separated by interdune c…
Prehistory as a Kind of History
The British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Some Problems, Methods of Study and Preliminary Results
This is an interim report on a Cambridge Research Thesis which has been in progress for three years, and which will eventually cover the major part of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. The whole project may be divided into four phases: 1. Collection and examination of all the available material; 2. Selection of those groups of implements appropriate for study; 3. Application of objective methods of study, mainly in the field of metrical …
British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Handaxe Groups
In the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1964, the writer presented (Roe, 1964) an interim report on his programme of research on the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic material, describing methods of studying assemblages of handaxes by metrical and statistical analysis, and outlining the first results obtained. The present paper offers a summary of the final results obtained for certain aspects of the same research project, in partic…
A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites
Prehistory
Prehistory: The modern approach
There is still an all too frequent tendency for the archaeologist to be popularly regarded as a professional treasure hunter. The prehistorian would be similarly classified, and few people would bother to set him in a separate category. And those who take such a view of him are also inclined to suppose that his sole function is to excavate, and that his equipment, his badge of office almost, is nothing more sophisticated than a spade. If this wer…
Final Palaeolithic Cultures and the Middle Stone Age
The Middle Stone Age or Mesolithic Period has lost something of the meaning originally attributed to it. With the close of the Wiürm glaciation, the west European area which dominated much of the last chapter loses its importance for the moment, and the centre of interest shifts to south-west Asia, where the human groups and the special circumstances existed which were to produce probably the most important breakthrough of the whole of prehistory…
The Iron Age
By Iron Age here is meant the Pre-Roman Iron Age of Europe, since it is the spread of the Roman Empire which brings this short account of prehistory to a close, however incomplete it must thereby remain. The literate civilisation of Rome, for all its stranglehold on the ancient world, did not penetrate to every corner of even Europe: the legions never reached Scandinavia, or central Germany, or even the far west and north of the British Isles, al…
The Old Stone Age
It is in many senses true to say that less happens in the Old Stone Age, for all its vast length, than in any of the other major periods of prehistory. There are many reasons for this, of which the most obvious is the low level of man's intellect and ability at this stage of human development. This should not only be thought of in terms of his having a small or inefficient brain; limbs and hands too were probably clumsy enough in the earliest sta…
Discrimination of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic handaxe groups using canonical variates
The British handaxe material discussed in this paper has been assiduously collected by Derek Roe and a gazetteer of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites has been published by the Council for British Archaeology as their research report number 8 (Roe i968a). Further publications cover the metrical approach that Roe has adopted in dealing with the handaxes, a preliminary report (I964), and a more comprehensive coverage later (x968b). In …
Prehistory as a Kind of History
Prehistory: An Introduction
Some Hampshire and Dorset handaxes and the question of ‘Early Acheulian’ in Britain
A Lower Palaeolithic handaxe found a few years ago at St Catherine's Hill, Christ church, is described. Various aspects of its technology and morphology appear archaic, and although it was found in a secondary context, with no clear geological evidence for its true age, relatively old Pleistocene gravels do occur at the summit of the hill. At the Ballast Hole, Corfe Mullen, a few miles west, J. B. Calkin and J. F. N. Green recorded some 25 years …
La Préhistoire Française. Vol. I. Published under the direction of H. de Lumley. II: Pp. xvi + 770 + figs. and pls. (4 colour) in text. 12: pp. xii + 912 + figs. in text. No prices given
La Préhistoire Française. Vol. I. Published under the direction of H. de Lumley. II: pp. xvi + 770 + figs. and pls. (4 colour) in text. 12: pp. xii + 912 + figs. in text. No prices given. - Volume 57 Issue 2
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
The Clactonian: An Independent Complex or an Integral Part of the Acheulean? [and Comments and Reply]
The Clactonian tradition of the British Lower Palaeolithic is currently accepted as an autonomous prehistoric culture, distinct from the Acheulean and pre-dating it. The recent excavations of a number of central sites have opened up a new opportunity for a comprehensive reinvestigation of Clactonian versus Acheulean artifacts along with other aspects related to the two complexes. This study examines and analyzes an unprecedented quantity of objec…
Introduction: Precise moments in remote time
A handaxe of Libyan Desert glass
The handaxe of Libyan Desert glass (PL. XIIIb & FIG. I) was found on 23 June 1979, in the Sand Sea of S.W. Egypt, at latitude 25°o8' N, longitude 25° 35·5' E, near the southern boundary of the known distribution area of the glass. Lying just north of the Gilf Kebir, this part of the Sand Sea is characterized by an extensive field of linear dunes, trending almost exactly N-S, which are up to Ioom high, tens of km long, and separated by interdune c…
Studying stones: An introduction
1985). Studying stones: An introduction. World Archaeology: Vol. 17, Studying stones, pp. 1-2
Studies in the Upper Palaeolithic of Britain and Northwest Europe
A Modem Archaeologist
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies]
This paper summarizes the results of recent excavations (1982-90) at the Middle Paleolithic site of Kebara Cave. Work at the cave by earlier excavators is also discussed. Although analysis of the Kebara materials is still far from completed, an overview of the current stage of the investigations includes (1) a synthesis of the site's complex stratigraphy and dating; (2) a description of the spatial patterning of hearths, ash lenses, and bone and …
Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies]
The Orce Basin (Andalucía, Spain) and the Initial Palaeolithic of Europe
Recent excavations in southern Spain have led to claims that humans were present in this part of Europe much earlier than had been generally believed — perhaps as early as 1.8–1.4 million years ago. The evidence from the Orce basin is summarized and discussed. Initial work at a newly discovered site, Fuentenueva 3a, indicates a good chance that genuine artefacts may indeed be present in early Pleistocene levels. Further excavation at this site ca…
Olduvai Gorge, Volume 5: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds, 1968-1971
Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds 1968-1971
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