References and Notes
- The description of the sites, the history of their study, and the ways of obtaining the required samples from their assemblages cannot be provided here. The reader is referred to M. Y. Ohel, The Clactonian-Acheulian Interface in Britain (Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Chicago, 1977) which provides all the necessary references.
- The stratigraphy and chronology of these sites have been discussed in numerous publications including F. Bordes, Proc. Prehist. Soc. 22,1 (1957); F. Bourdier, Prehistoire de France (Flammarion, Paris, 1967); J. Wymer, Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain (Baker, London, 1968); P. A. Mellars, in British Prehistory: A New Outline, A. C. Renfrew, Ed. (Duckworth, London, 1974, p. 41).
- For full explanations and justifications of the measurements and measuring techniques the reader must be referred again to the reference mentioned in Note 1. Variables no. 1–8 are in millimeters; no. 9 in degrees; no. 10–16 are observations or counts.
- Discussions on technological attributes and related topics may be found in a number of volumes including: J. Gunn, in Lithic Technology, E. Swanson, Ed. (Mouton, The Hague, 1975), p. 35; J. Gunn and R. Mahula, Hop Hill: Culture and Climatic Change in Central Texas (Center for Archaeological Research, Univ. Texas at San Antonio, 1977); L. Lewis Johnson, in The Individual in Prehistory, J. N. Hill and J. Gunn, Eds. (Academic, New York, 1977); R. Bonnichsen, Models for Deriving Cultural Information from Stone Tools (National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1977).
- N. H. Nie et al, SPSS (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1975), p. 269.
- H. M. Blalock, Jr., Social Statistics (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972), p. 228.
- See Note 4, Bonnichsen, p. 166.
- For the application of this term, see L. R. Binford and J. B. Bertram, in For Theory Building in Archaeology, L. R. Binford, Ed. (Academic, New York, 1977), p. 87.
- For access to the collections I am grateful to L. Balout, Mme. de Thoury and M. Rousseau of Musée de l’Homme, Paris; A. Tuffreau, A. Duval and J. P. Kerboal of Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; R. and Mme. Agache of Musée Boucher de-Perthes, Abbeville; G. de G. Sieveking and J. C. Bobsall of the British Museum, London; and R. Hagen of the Luton Museum. Special thanks are due to D. A. Roe of Oxford University for precious help. I am most obliged to T. Perzigian and R. Stuebing, both of the University of Cincinnati, for consultation, editing, and statistical guidance. Investigations in England and France were supported by grants (to R. Singer, University of Chicago) from the U.S. National Science Foundation (GS-2907) and the Lichstern Fund of the University of Chicago. The paper was written during a Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati.