Sea-level changes have caused dryland that was once inhabited by our predecessors to become submerged. Some areas have alternated between being dry and wet over numerous cycles. Our investigations have looked at prehistoric evidence from land that has become submerged since the last (Devensian) ice age about 18,000 years ago, and at the vast span of human history in the UK over the last 700,000 years.
Latest prehistory posts:
- The recent discovery of Palaeolithic handaxes in the North Sea has underlined the link between aggregate dredging and archaeology.
To help let aggregate companies know where prehistoric remains might be found, and to target new surveys, Wessex Archaeology has been looking again at old records of artefacts found at sea and on the coast.
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The reports from Wessex Archaeology’s ALSF Seabed Prehistory Project have been made available online via Scribd, where they can be viewed or downloaded as pdfs.
The reports set out details of marine geophysical, geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmental studies.
There are eight volumes covering five study areas, plus an Introduction and Results and Conclusions.
Further details of the Seabed Prehistory [...] - An amazing collection of 28 flint Neanderthal hand-axes has been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth.
The find was made by a Dutch amateur archaeologist who regularly searches for mammoth bones and fossils in marine sand and gravel delivered by Hanson Aggregates Marine Ltd to a wharf [...]
