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The Dating of Surface Flint Implements and the Evidences of the Submerged Peat Surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

S. Hazzledine Warren
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It is admitted by all workers in prehistory that the human implements which are found upon the surface do not all belong to the Neolithic period, although, until recently, they have always been called Neolithic. It therefore seems better to define them clearly as a Surface Series, without prejudice to their date.

Beyond this point of general agreement, differences of opinion are strongly marked. Some workers would boldly place the majority of the Surface Series in the Later Palæolithic period, or “Cave Age,” while others are unable to accept this view.

It must be admitted that we have very little knowledge of remains belonging to a strictly-defined Neolithic period. We know that “Neolithic” implements continued to be extensively used during the Early Bronze Age, and even in later times.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 1919 , pp. 94 - 104
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1919

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page 94 note * See “The Essex Naturalist.” Vol. XVI. 1911, pp. 265–282 Google Scholar.

page 98 note * The remains of the polished surfaces of the axe-heads out of which the specimens were made are indicated in the figures by double stars. Polished surfaces also occur nearer the centres in figures 5 and 6.

page 99 note * In many of the figures 11 to 26 which show two or more views of a specimen, a indicates the top view, b the side view, and c the end view of the flaking. These letters are placed at corresponding points in the different views.

page 103 note * The more “classical” types of Neoliths from the Lyonesse surface have been illustrated in papers published in the Essex Naturalist Vol. XVI., 1908. pp. 46–51 Google Scholar, 6 plates, and Journ. Royal Anthrop. Inst., Vol. XLII., 1912, pp. 91–135, 8 platesGoogle Scholar.