A very remote period indeed : papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe

Twenty-seven papers on palaeolithic archaeology, dedicated to Derek Roe, the prominent palaeolithic archaeologist.

These constitute a major collection of research ranging from England to Africa, Korea and Russia.

The contributors include some very eminent names including J Desmond Clark, Clive Gamble, Marcel Otte, Ofer Bar-Yosef and John Wymer.

Variability in primary and secondary technologies of the Later Acheulian in Africa (J.

Desmond Clark); Europe and Africa during the Palaeolithic (Marcel Otte); The initial peopling of Eurasia and the early occupation of Europe in its Afro-Asian context: major issues and current perspectives (Nicholas Rolland); In the quest for Palaeolithic human behaviour (Ofer Bar-Yosef); The Palaeolithic industries in Korea: chronology and related new find-spots (Hyeong Woo Lee); Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Central Kazakhstan: the Batpak Valley and environs (Norah Moloney, Sandra L. Olsen & Valery Voloshin); Acheulian handaxe variability in Middle Pleistocene Italy: a case study (Sarah Milliken); Palaeoliths in a lost pre-Anglian landscape (John Wymer); New Lower Palaeolithic finds from the Upper Thames (Terry Hardaker); The Sackung Hypothesis: a challenge for Palaeolithic prospection (Simon Collcutt); A Lyngby point from Mildenhall, Suffolk, and its implications for the British Late Upper Palaeolithic (Alison J.

Roberts & R. Nick E. Barton); Out of Abbeville: Sir John Evans, Palaeolithic patriarch and handaxe pioneer (Mark J.

White); Old collections - a new resource? The history of some English Palaeolithic collections in Cardiff (Elizabeth A.

Walker); Derek Roe, a bibliography.