Neanderthals in Wales : Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley caves / edited by Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Rick Peterson and Elizabeth A. Walker.

Includes bibliographical references.

An introduction to human evolution, and the place of the Pontnewydd Cave human fossils / Chris Stringer -- The history of the caves / Elizabeth A. Walker and Tristan Gray Hulse -- The geomorphology of the country around Pontnewydd Cave / David Q. Bowen and Helen J. Livingston -- The geology of Pontnewydd Cave / William B. Jones -- The sedimentary sequence / Richard Mourne [and others] -- The excavations at Pontnewydd Cave / Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Rick Peterson -- The excavations at Cefn and Cae Gronw / Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Rick Peterson -- The fauna / Andrew P. Currant and Anne Eastham with notes by Kate Scott and Bryony Coles -- The human remains / Tim Compton and Chris Stringer -- Pontnewydd Cave : the characterization, petrology, taphonomy and interpretation of the archaeological finds / Stephen Aldhouse-Green [and others] -- Dating / Nicholas C. Debenham [and others] -- Stable isotope analysis of animal bone from Pontnewydd Cave / Mandy Jay, Vaughan Grimes and Michael P. Richards -- The Pontnewydd people, their cave and their world / Stephen Aldhouse-Green -- Epilogue : The glass island / Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Elizabeth A. Walker.

The final publication of results of the excavations at Pontnewydd cave in north-east Wales has been eagerly awaited. The site was investigated as part of the Palaeolithic Settlement of Wales Research Programme, which has been responsible for transforming understanding of the nature of human settlement on the very margins of Eurasia by early Neanderthals. The caves of the Elwy valley in north-east Wales contain evidence of the earliest human occupation of Wales. This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research. It describes the traces of occupation left around 225,000 years ag.

English.

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