Things to do in Doggerland when you're dead: surviving OIS3 at the northwestern-most fringe of Middle Palaeolithic Europe

White, M.J.

doi:10.1080/00438240600963031

Things to do in Doggerland when you're dead: surviving OIS3 at the northwestern-most fringe of Middle Palaeolithic Europe

White, M.J.

Authors

Professor Mark White mark.white@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

This paper examines Neanderthal survival skills in Britain. Its starting point is that there are major tensions between the three main sources of relevant information - archaeological, palaeoanthropological and palaeoenvironmental data and their subsequent interpretation - that make our understanding of Neanderthal survival much more precarious than is generally supposed. The paper is speculative, and proffers questions not answers. It challenges us to look past the often mute material record, and to equip Neanderthals with a number of logically prerequisite but generally archaeologically invisible survival tools and practices, beyond the well-trodden paths of mobility, hunting and planning.

Citation

White, M. (2006). Things to do in Doggerland when you're dead: surviving OIS3 at the northwestern-most fringe of Middle Palaeolithic Europe. World Archaeology, 38(4), 547-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240600963031

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Dec 1, 2006
Deposit Date	Apr 8, 2009
Publicly Available Date	Apr 15, 2009
Journal	World Archaeology
Print ISSN	0043-8243
Electronic ISSN	1470-1375
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	38
Issue	4
Pages	547-575
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240600963031
Keywords	Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthal, Archaeology, Palaeoanthropology, Palaeoenvironments, Doggerland.