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Publications

Project outputs:

  • White, M., Foulds, F., Rawlinson, A., Shipton, C., Davis, R. & Ashton, N. (2026) “Two tribes”: Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional groups in southeastern Britain between 424,000 and 374,000 BP. Journal of Quaternary Science 41: 602–621. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70063
  • Shipton, C., Foulds, F., Rawlinson, A., Ashton, N., Leroyer, M. and White, M. (2026) Pronounced increase in biface knapping skill half a million years ago in Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 69: 105563. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105563
  • Rawlinson, A., Foulds, F., Shipton, C., Ashton, N., Dale, L. and White, M. (2026) Handaxe diversity at the end of the Acheulean: the character and significance of handaxe assemblages from MIS 9 Britain in European context. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18: 104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-026-02468-8
  • Shipton, C., Foulds, F., Rawlinson, A., Leroyer, M., Ashton, N. & White, M. (2025) Turning-the-edge, tranchet and social signalling at Boxgrove. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 36: 58–75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325100152
  • Foulds, F., White, M., Rawlinson, A., Shipton, C. & Ashton, N. (2025) A twist in the tail: on the validity and characteristics of the Phase III handaxe assemblage from Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, UK. Quaternary International 746: 109951. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109951
  • White, M., Rawlinson, A., Foulds, F., Dale, L., David, R., Bridgland, D., Shipton, C. and Ashton, N. (2024) Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: stone tool technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe. Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology 7: 13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00177-z
  • Dale, L., Rawlinson, A., Knowles, P., Foulds, F., Ashton, N., Bridgland, D. & White, M. (2024) Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic. Antiquity 98: 305–322. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.30

Other relevant publications:

  • Davis, R., Lewis, S.G., Hatch, M., Ashton, N., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J.J., Dale, L., Foulds, F., Rawlinson, A. & White, M. (2024) A revised terrace stratigraphy and chronology for the Little Ouse River as a framework for interpreting the late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic of central East Anglia, UK. Quaternary Environments and Humans 2, 100045. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100045
  • White, M., Ashton, N. & Bridgland, D. (2019) Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 85, 61–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2019.1
  • White, M.J., Bridgland, D.R., Schreve, D.C., White, T.S. & Penkman, K.E.H. (2018) Well-dated fluvial sequences as templates for patterns of handaxe distribution: understanding the record of Acheulean activity in the Thames and its correlatives. Quaternary International 480: 118–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.049
  • White, M.J. (2015) ‘Dancing to the rhythms of the biotidal zone’: settlement history and culture history in Middle Pleistocene Britain. In F. Coward, R. Hosfield, M. Pope & F. Wenban-Smith (eds), Settlement , society and cognition in human evolution: landscapes in mind, 154–173. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bridgland, D.R. & White, M.J. (2015) Chronological variations in handaxes: patterns detected from fluvial archives in NW Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science 30, 623–38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2805
  • Bridgland, D.R & White, M.J. (2014) Fluvial archives as a framework for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: patterns of British artefact distribution and potential chronological implications. Boreas 46, 543–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fbor.12059
  • Foulds, F. (2014) Invisible individuals, visible groups: on the evidence of individuals and groups at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK. In Foulds, F. Drinkall, H., Perri, A., Clinnick D. & Walker, J. (eds), Wild things: recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research, 12–40. Oxford: Oxbow Books.