DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.03.007
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84877042837
论文题名: Molluscan and ostracod successions from Dierden's Pit, Swanscombe: Insights into the fluvial history, sea-level record and human occupation of the Hoxnian Thames
作者: White T.S. ; Preece R.C. ; Whittaker J.E.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2013
卷: 70 起始页码: 73
结束页码: 90
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Hoxnian
; Middle Pleistocene
; Mollusca
; Ostracoda
; Palaeolithic
; Sea-level
; Swanscombe
; Thames
Scopus关键词: Hoxnian
; Middle Pleistocene
; Mollusca
; Ostracoda
; Palaeolithic
; Swanscombe
; Thames
; Molluscs
; Sea level
; Stratigraphy
; Animals
; archaeology
; biostratigraphy
; invertebrate
; paleoclimate
; paleontology
; reconstruction
; sea level change
; succession
; typology
; England
; Kent
; Swanscombe
; Thames River [England]
; United Kingdom
; Arvicola cantiana
; Microtus richardsoni
; Mollusca
; Muridae
; Ostracoda
英文摘要: Swanscombe, Kent, is an internationally renowned hominin site located on the south bank of the River Thames, east of London. The Swanscombe sequence has been reconstructed from exposures at several localities from which important archaeological and palaeontological assemblages have been recovered. The most important of these is Barnfield Pit, where two stone-tool industries (Clactonian and Acheulian) have been recorded in superposition, together with three refitting pieces of a hominin skull associated with the Acheulian. Dierden's Pit (=Ingress Vale), ~0.5km to the north of Barnfield Pit, has also yielded Palaeolithic artefacts but is best known as a source of abundant non-marine molluscs and as the type locality for the water vole Arvicola cantiana. This paper describes the molluscan and ostracod successions through the Dierden's Pit sequence, which shed light on important aspects of the fluvial, sea-level and archaeological histories of the Thames during MIS 11. A dramatic change occurs in the molluscan record at Swanscombe, marked by the appearance of the 'Rhenish suite' of freshwater molluscs, which has previously been used to suggest confluence of the Thames and Rhine systems. The 'Rhenish suite' occurs in the Middle Gravels at Barnfield Pit and throughout the Shell bed at Dierden's Pit, where the component species did not appear simultaneously but colonized the Thames in an ordered sequence. The occurrence of the 'Rhenish suite' provides a secure basis for correlation of important archaeological horizons at Swanscombe, which have previously been mis-correlated on the basis of artefact typology. Moreover, it enables correlation with other MIS 11 sequences, some of which (Clacton and East Hyde) can be directly linked to the pollen stratigraphy of the Hoxnian. The ostracod succession at Dierden's Pit provides the first clear evidence of increasing brackish influence at Swanscombe and has formed the basis for palaeoclimatic reconstructions using the Mutual Ostracod Temperature Range (MOTR) method. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60629
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作者单位: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom; Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2BD, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
White T.S.,Preece R.C.,Whittaker J.E.. Molluscan and ostracod successions from Dierden's Pit, Swanscombe: Insights into the fluvial history, sea-level record and human occupation of the Hoxnian Thames[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2013-01-01,70