tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22856388.post-23384311171520640512006-11-02T21:17:00.000Z2007-01-16T09:38:01.264Z<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6n9s0s0eZ90/RayaL8aqflI/AAAAAAAAAAg/RCw4gJzRRAI/s1600-h/TP+in+situ+flake.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6n9s0s0eZ90/RayaL8aqflI/AAAAAAAAAAg/RCw4gJzRRAI/s320/TP+in+situ+flake.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020557214598463058" border="0" /></a><br />As out test pits are opened up ahead of extraction they are <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">revealing</span> in-<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">situ</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">landsurfaces</span> across the entire north-western part of the quarry.<br /><br />In each test pit small <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">quantities</span> of in-<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">situ</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">knapping</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">debitage</span> are present showing that this was an area actively occupied by Middle <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Pleistocene</span> humans. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Perhaps</span> on the fringe of key hunting and butchery areas. We have yet to locate <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">thes</span><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">e in</span> the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Valdoe</span> environs but the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">quantities</span> of background evidence in the form of diffuse scatter of flakes makes their presence locally a virtual certainty.mipnoreply@blogger.com