John Mcnabb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 627985 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Mcnabb |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Mcnabb |
| ASSINATURA | MCNABB J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1841-4864 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 297 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Refloating the Aegean Lost Dryland
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards
The methodology developed by Derek Roe in the 1960s to describe the outline shape of handaxes has become an industry standard amongst scholars of the Acheulean. It was applied to the UK and in a modified form in East and Southern Africa. It is being used by a new generation of archaeologists to understand successive Acheulean occupations of the UK in the Middle Pleistocene. There has been a relatively little critique of the method. This paper exp…
Landscapes of Human Evolution
Landscapes of Human Evolution
Problems and Pitfalls in Understanding the Clactonian
Further Thoughts on the Genetic Argument for Handaxes
The Acheulean handaxe has always been considered a social phenomenon. Corbey et al. 35 provide a major challenge to this argument, arguing quite rightly, that it has never been independently established that handaxe temporal depth is a product of intergenerational social learning. They take a number of assumptions integral to the social argument and suggest, using parsimony, that a genetic explanation is equally as plausible for each of them. Com…
The Application of Elliptic Fourier Analysis in Understanding Biface Shape and Symmetry Through the British Acheulean
Evaluating claims for an early peopling of the Americas
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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, …
Crossing the Human Threshold
Crossing the Human Threshold
From side to side
The Acheulean is defined by its iconic tool type, the handaxe, and a suite of other large cutting tools (LCTs). These tools retain information on technical and procedural practices concerned with the manufacture of these butchery tools and carcass processing knives. The Acheulean straddles the period in which more ancient hominin species (H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis) give way to archaic H. sapiens (sensu lato) amongst whom the ancestor of m…
Journeys in space and time. Assessing the link between Acheulean handaxes and genetic explanations
Anthropology by gaslight
The last decade of the Victorian era, the fin de siècle, was a time of deep social anxiety as the power structures and social institutions of the Victorian era came under great critical scrutiny from the arts and the sciences alike. Central concerns about human nature and just how civilised Victorians really were, were allied to concerns about the future of the ‘white race’ and its continued social and political hegemony. Much of the literature o…
The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece
The Cutting Edge, Bifaces in the Clactonian
Phosphate influx affected [PTH] in CKD by determining [P]f in the CDN. In some patients, low calcium influx may have blunted the effect of sevelamer on [PTH]
The archaeology of persistent places
The mirror cracked
Experimental stone tool replication at the Early Stone Age site of Sterkfontein, Gauteng, South Africa
Pole to Pole. Archaeology and Adaptation in the Middle Pleistocene at Opposite Ends of the Acheulean World
The concept of cultural evolution in the Acheulean is linked to a number of important anatomical, phylogenetic, adaptive, cultural and cognitive research questions. Yet there are very few studies which are able to demonstrate advancements in material culture (technological and/or conceptual) supported by large bodies of empirical data. Derek R oe's work at O lduvai G orge is one of the few exceptions and here, in my opinion, raw material consider…
Excavations in the Acheulean Levels at the Earlier Stone Age Site of Canteen Koppie, Northern Province, South Africa
The fluvial gravels of the river Vaal in South Africa have long been known as a source for Earlier Stone Age (ESA) artefacts. Most were discovered through the open cast mining for diamonds that has left very little in situ fluvial sediment remaining today. The site of Canteen Koppie is an internationally famous location with a reputation for prolific Acheulean artefacts, especially handaxes and the enigmatic prepared core and Levallois-like techn…
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…
The British Lower Palaeolithic
Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. In analyzing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic cu…
A Report on the Archaeological Assemblages from Excavations by Peter Beaumont at Canteen Koppie, Northern Cape, South Africa
This volume represents a report of excavation conducted at the site of Canteen Koppie, Barkly West, Northern Cape, South Africa. It is a straight site report describing how the work was conducted and an analysis of the lithic assemblages recovered. This report describes the lithic assemblages associated with the sedimentological column for the Canteen Koppie site. The assemblages represent the first controlled excavations in this world famous loc…
The Cave of Hearths
This volume represents the efforts of a significant collaborative project and provides a completely up-to-date interpretation of the Cave of Hearths (Makapan Cave Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa), which has played a key role in furthering knowledge of hominin prehistory and evolution in southern Africa. This work provides new analyses and interpretations of this important site and its archaeology, geology and palaeontology
The Large Cutting Tools from the South African Acheulean and the Question of Social Traditions
Handaxes and cleavers are the keystone of the Acheulean, a stone-tool-making phenomenon which was made for over a million years (ca. < 1.7 to < 0.25 million years). These large cutting tools are considered a product of social learning within cooperating groups of Homo ergaster and Homo heidelbergensis in Africa and Europe. This paper concentrates on data from the Cave of Hearths and six other South African late Early Pleistocene and Middle Pleist…
Contemporaneity of Clactonian and Acheulian flint industries at Barnham, Suffolk
New field evidence challenges an old-established fundamental of the Lower Palaeolithic sequence in Britain
From side to side
The Acheulean is defined by its iconic tool type, the handaxe, and a suite of other large cutting tools (LCTs). These tools retain information on technical and procedural practices concerned with the manufacture of these butchery tools and carcass processing knives. The Acheulean straddles the period in which more ancient hominin species (H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis) give way to archaic H. sapiens (sensu lato) amongst whom the ancestor of m…
A Report on the Archaeological Assemblages from Excavations by Peter Beaumont at Canteen Koppie, Northern Cape, South Africa
This volume represents a report of excavation conducted at the site of Canteen Koppie, Barkly West, Northern Cape, South Africa. It is a straight site report describing how the work was conducted and an analysis of the lithic assemblages recovered. This report describes the lithic assemblages associated with the sedimentological column for the Canteen Koppie site. The assemblages represent the first controlled excavations in this world famous loc…
The Cutting Edge, Bifaces in the Clactonian
Phosphate influx affected [PTH] in CKD by determining [P]f in the CDN. In some patients, low calcium influx may have blunted the effect of sevelamer on [PTH]
The archaeology of persistent places
The mirror cracked
Excavations in the Acheulean Levels at the Earlier Stone Age Site of Canteen Koppie, Northern Province, South Africa
The fluvial gravels of the river Vaal in South Africa have long been known as a source for Earlier Stone Age (ESA) artefacts. Most were discovered through the open cast mining for diamonds that has left very little in situ fluvial sediment remaining today. The site of Canteen Koppie is an internationally famous location with a reputation for prolific Acheulean artefacts, especially handaxes and the enigmatic prepared core and Levallois-like techn…
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…
Journeys in space and time. Assessing the link between Acheulean handaxes and genetic explanations
Pole to Pole. Archaeology and Adaptation in the Middle Pleistocene at Opposite Ends of the Acheulean World
The concept of cultural evolution in the Acheulean is linked to a number of important anatomical, phylogenetic, adaptive, cultural and cognitive research questions. Yet there are very few studies which are able to demonstrate advancements in material culture (technological and/or conceptual) supported by large bodies of empirical data. Derek R oe's work at O lduvai G orge is one of the few exceptions and here, in my opinion, raw material consider…
More from the cutting edge
An important step in our knowledge of the British Lower Palaeolithic has been the finding that its two recognized components, ‘Clactonian’ and ‘Acheulean’, are not ranged into a simple sequence; the exact relationship between the two is the subject of much debate. What does this do to interpretations of Swanscombe, classic site of the Lower Thames Valley, which has been studied in terms of stratigraphic succession
Choppers and the Clactonian
Choppers and chopping tools have long been associated with the Clactonian industries of Britain. They have either been dismissed as cores, or often described as woodworking tools, but have rarely been studied from a functional perspective. The purpose of this paper is to publish the results of a series of experiments which has been carried out to investigate the functional efficiency of choppers or chopping tools as compared to other alternative …
Thoughtful Flakers
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On Tools and Traditions
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards
The methodology developed by Derek Roe in the 1960s to describe the outline shape of handaxes has become an industry standard amongst scholars of the Acheulean. It was applied to the UK and in a modified form in East and Southern Africa. It is being used by a new generation of archaeologists to understand successive Acheulean occupations of the UK in the Middle Pleistocene. There has been a relatively little critique of the method. This paper exp…
Evaluating claims for an early peopling of the Americas
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Methods of Engraving Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals
Previous observations of the intaglios on quartz cylinder seals from Western Asia suggested that they had been engraved by one or more of four basic techniques, that is, micro‐chipping, filing, drilling and wheel‐cutting. In this paper we test our earlier observations and interpretations experimentally. Examination and comparison of experimentally engraved features with the seal intaglios was made directly with a binocular microscope and also by …
Sticks and Stones
Unretouched flakes, Clactonian notches, true notches and a unifacial chopper were all used in a series of experiments on staves of yew wood. The aim of the experiments was to see which of the various Clactonian tool types could best reproduce the sharp, straight-sided taper of the Clacton spear point. Because of the hardness of the wood the experimenter was forced to begin close to the end of the wooden staves. The unretouched flakes when used in…
Experimental stone tool replication at the Early Stone Age site of Sterkfontein, Gauteng, South Africa
The Lying Stones of Sussex
The Piltdown forgery was an attempt to fabricate an ancient human ancestor, as well as the world that it came from. An important part of substantiating that world was to fabricate the material culture of Eoanthropus dawsoni, the Piltdown Man. This paper looks at the flint tools from the Piltdown site. They reveal important clues as to how the forger perpetrated the hoax, and why certain types of artefact were included, while others were omitted. …
Rescue Excavations at an Acheulean Site at Southend Road, South Woodford, London Borough of Redbridge, E18 (TQ 407905)
During a watching brief related to the construction of the Mil in April 1975 a handaxe in very fresh condition was discovered lying on Pleistocene terrace gravels of the River Roding at Southend Road, South Woodford. Subsequent excavations by Essex County Council revealed that the handaxe formed part of a low density, probably in situ, scatter of Earlier Palaeolithic artefacts. Although these finds caused much excitement among the Palaeolithic co…
Sticks and Stones
Unretouched flakes, Clactonian notches, true notches and a unifacial chopper were all used in a series of experiments on staves of yew wood. The aim of the experiments was to see which of the various Clactonian tool types could best reproduce the sharp, straight-sided taper of the Clacton spear point. Because of the hardness of the wood the experimenter was forced to begin close to the end of the wooden staves. The unretouched flakes when used in…
Choppers and the Clactonian
Choppers and chopping tools have long been associated with the Clactonian industries of Britain. They have either been dismissed as cores, or often described as woodworking tools, but have rarely been studied from a functional perspective. The purpose of this paper is to publish the results of a series of experiments which has been carried out to investigate the functional efficiency of choppers or chopping tools as compared to other alternative …
Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk 1989–92
Preliminary results are presented from three seasons' work at the Lower Palaeolithic site at Barnham. The complex stratigraphy is described and a provisional interpretation given, which suggests that the archaeological deposits date to a warm phase after the Anglian (Middle Pleistocene) cold stage. A fauna1 assemblage from the deposits is described, providing an environmental and biostratigraphic context for the site. Further geochronological con…
Contemporaneity of Clactonian and Acheulian flint industries at Barnham, Suffolk
New field evidence challenges an old-established fundamental of the Lower Palaeolithic sequence in Britain
Thoughtful Flakers
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More from the cutting edge
An important step in our knowledge of the British Lower Palaeolithic has been the finding that its two recognized components, ‘Clactonian’ and ‘Acheulean’, are not ranged into a simple sequence; the exact relationship between the two is the subject of much debate. What does this do to interpretations of Swanscombe, classic site of the Lower Thames Valley, which has been studied in terms of stratigraphic succession
Rescue Excavations at an Acheulean Site at Southend Road, South Woodford, London Borough of Redbridge, E18 (TQ 407905)
During a watching brief related to the construction of the Mil in April 1975 a handaxe in very fresh condition was discovered lying on Pleistocene terrace gravels of the River Roding at Southend Road, South Woodford. Subsequent excavations by Essex County Council revealed that the handaxe formed part of a low density, probably in situ, scatter of Earlier Palaeolithic artefacts. Although these finds caused much excitement among the Palaeolithic co…
Methods of Engraving Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals
Previous observations of the intaglios on quartz cylinder seals from Western Asia suggested that they had been engraved by one or more of four basic techniques, that is, micro‐chipping, filing, drilling and wheel‐cutting. In this paper we test our earlier observations and interpretations experimentally. Examination and comparison of experimentally engraved features with the seal intaglios was made directly with a binocular microscope and also by …
Paradise Lost
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Boxgrove
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A Single Shooter on the Gravelly Knoll
The Large Cutting Tools from the South African Acheulean and the Question of Social Traditions
Handaxes and cleavers are the keystone of the Acheulean, a stone-tool-making phenomenon which was made for over a million years (ca. < 1.7 to < 0.25 million years). These large cutting tools are considered a product of social learning within cooperating groups of Homo ergaster and Homo heidelbergensis in Africa and Europe. This paper concentrates on data from the Cave of Hearths and six other South African late Early Pleistocene and Middle Pleist…
On Tools and Traditions
The Lying Stones of Sussex
The Piltdown forgery was an attempt to fabricate an ancient human ancestor, as well as the world that it came from. An important part of substantiating that world was to fabricate the material culture of Eoanthropus dawsoni, the Piltdown Man. This paper looks at the flint tools from the Piltdown site. They reveal important clues as to how the forger perpetrated the hoax, and why certain types of artefact were included, while others were omitted. …
The Cave of Hearths
This volume represents the efforts of a significant collaborative project and provides a completely up-to-date interpretation of the Cave of Hearths (Makapan Cave Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa), which has played a key role in furthering knowledge of hominin prehistory and evolution in southern Africa. This work provides new analyses and interpretations of this important site and its archaeology, geology and palaeontology
The British Lower Palaeolithic
Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. In analyzing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic cu…
A Report on the Archaeological Assemblages from Excavations by Peter Beaumont at Canteen Koppie, Northern Cape, South Africa
This volume represents a report of excavation conducted at the site of Canteen Koppie, Barkly West, Northern Cape, South Africa. It is a straight site report describing how the work was conducted and an analysis of the lithic assemblages recovered. This report describes the lithic assemblages associated with the sedimentological column for the Canteen Koppie site. The assemblages represent the first controlled excavations in this world famous loc…
Excavations in the Acheulean Levels at the Earlier Stone Age Site of Canteen Koppie, Northern Province, South Africa
The fluvial gravels of the river Vaal in South Africa have long been known as a source for Earlier Stone Age (ESA) artefacts. Most were discovered through the open cast mining for diamonds that has left very little in situ fluvial sediment remaining today. The site of Canteen Koppie is an internationally famous location with a reputation for prolific Acheulean artefacts, especially handaxes and the enigmatic prepared core and Levallois-like techn…
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…
Pole to Pole. Archaeology and Adaptation in the Middle Pleistocene at Opposite Ends of the Acheulean World
The concept of cultural evolution in the Acheulean is linked to a number of important anatomical, phylogenetic, adaptive, cultural and cognitive research questions. Yet there are very few studies which are able to demonstrate advancements in material culture (technological and/or conceptual) supported by large bodies of empirical data. Derek R oe's work at O lduvai G orge is one of the few exceptions and here, in my opinion, raw material consider…
The mirror cracked
Experimental stone tool replication at the Early Stone Age site of Sterkfontein, Gauteng, South Africa
The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece
The Cutting Edge, Bifaces in the Clactonian
Phosphate influx affected [PTH] in CKD by determining [P]f in the CDN. In some patients, low calcium influx may have blunted the effect of sevelamer on [PTH]
The archaeology of persistent places
Archaeology (27 obras) · Geography (27 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (26 obras) · History (17 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Geology (14 obras) · Pleistocene (14 obras) · Acheulean (11 obras) · Geology (11 obras) · History (10 obras)