A Reappraisal of the Clacton Spearpoint.

摘要: The wooden artifact widely known as the Clacton Spear (pl. 1) was discovered by Samuel Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in 1911. He dug it out of an undisturbed part freshwater sediments, probably a peaty seam, exposed on foreshore at Clacton-on-Sea, c. 80 km ENE London (Warren 1911; 1914, and conversation with K.P.O. 1933). On 30th September 1911, Warren conducted party members Essex Field Club visit to see outcrop Pleistocene fluviatile deposits shore west Pier, brief report this excursion, reference made occurrence fossil mammalia Palaeolithic flint artifacts. At first Henri Breuil tentatively identified worked flints Mesvinian industry Belgium; but after Warren's amassment larger collection, he recognized that artifacts represented distinct industry, or tradition, for which proposed name Clactonian (see 1922 1926; 1932).