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The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of
long-term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways
that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a
flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gatherers for large
parts of the 0.5 million years since the English Channel’s
formation. While much of this record is now inaccessible to
systematic archaeological investigation it is critical that we
consider past human societies in the region in terms of access to,
inhabitation in, and exploitation of this landscape. This latest
volume of the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers
provides a starting point for approaching the Middle Palaeolithic
record of the English Channel region and considering the ecological
opportunities and behavioural constraints this landscape offered to
Neanderthal groups in north-west Europe. The volume reviews the
Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record along the fringes of La
Manche in northern France and southern Britain. It examines this
record in light of recent advances in quaternary stratigraphy,
science-based dating, and palaeoecology and explores how
Palaeolithic archaeology in the region has developed in an
interdisciplinary way to transform our understanding of Neanderthal
behaviour. Focusing in detail on a particular sub-region of this
landscape, the Normano-Breton Gulf, the volume presents the results
of recent research focused on exceptionally productive coastal
capture points for Neanderthal archaeology. In turn the long-term
behavioural record of La Cotte de St Brelade is presented and
explored, offering a key to changing Neanderthal behaviour. Aspects
of movement into and through these landscapes, changing
technological and raw material procurement strategies, hunting
patterns and site structures, are presented as accessible
behaviours that change at site and landscape scales in response to
changing climate, sea level and ecology over the last 250,000
years.
Today the Upper Thames Valley is a region of green pastures and
well-managed farmland, interspersed with pretty villages and
intersected by a meandering river. The discovery in 1989 of a
mammoth tusk in river gravels at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire,
revealed the very different ancient past of this landscape. Here,
some 200,000 years ago, mammoths, straight-tusked elephants, lions,
and other animals roamed across grasslands with scattered trees,
occasionally disturbed by small bands of Neanderthals. The pit
where the tusk was discovered, destined to become a waste disposal
site, provided a rare opportunity to conduct intensive excavations
that extended over a period of 10 years. This work resulted in the
recording and recovery of more than 1500 vertebrate fossils and an
abundance of other biological material, including insects,
molluscs, and plant remains, together with 36 stone artefacts
attributable to Neanderthals. The well-preserved plant remains
include leaves, nuts, twigs and large oak logs. Vertebrate remains
notably include the most comprehensive known assemblage of a
distinctive small form of the steppe mammoth, Mammuthus
trogontherii, that is characteristic of an interglacial period
equated with marine isotope stage 7 (MIS 7). Richly illustrated
throughout, Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley offers a
detailed account of all these finds and will be of interest to
Quaternary specialists and students alike.
Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 a court must carry out a
summary assessment of costs in any trial or hearing that lasts one
day or less. Practitioners who prepare for and represent clients in
such hearings can greatly improve their client's chances of
reducing their liability for costs, or enhancing the level of costs
they can recover, if they are well-versed in the relevant costs law
and procedure. This is a practical and portable guide which
contains everything practitioners and judges need to know in order
to conduct a summary assessment of costs in the County Court, or
the High Court or the Court of Appeal. Arranged in a logical and
accessible way, which enables reference at a a glance, the book
includes expert commentary and analysis on the most commonly
arising issues, carefully selected appendices, and checklists aimed
at the busy practitioner. The book is fully up-to-date to include
the November 2005 reforms to CFA regulations. Examples of areas
covered are: when summary assessments are appropriate, what order
the parties should be asking for, the impact of Part 36 offers and
the conduct of the parties, issues arising from the funding of the
claim, and pointers on how to prepare, attack and defend a costs
schedule. In addition to key statutory material and extracts from
the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, the appendices include SCCO
guideline rates for solicitors' and barristers' fees, and relevant
solicitors' costs materials. Written and edited by leading
specialists in costs law, Summary Assessment of Costs will help
those preparing for and appearing at summary assessments to keep
one step ahead of the opposition.
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