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Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset: Microstratigraphy of the Late Pleistocene/earliest Holocene sediments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2004

RICHARD I. MACPHAIL
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34, Gordon Sq., London, WC1H 0PY, UK
PAUL GOLDBERG
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675, Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. 02215, USA
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Abstract

Eleven thin sections of Late-glacial and early Holocene sediments from Gough's Cave were investigated by soil micromorphology in order to complement analyses of contemporary faunal and human remains. Despite the paucity of continuous vertical and lateral stratigraphic sequences, which were the result of cave exploitation during the first half of the twentieth century, we were able to elucidate site formation processes relating to both Late-Glacial environmental conditions and the burial environment affecting human remains.

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© Natural History Museum, 2003

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