Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley : : Excavations at Stanton Harcourt Oxfordshire / / Katharine Scott, Christine Buckingham.
This richly illustrated book gives a detailed account of excavations that extended over ten years at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, following the discovery of a mammoth tusk in 1989. More than 1500 vertebrate fossils and a wealth of other biological material were recorded and recovered, along with 3...
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