Investigation of a Final Palaeolithic Site at Rookery Farm,Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire

摘要

This paper presents the results of excavations at an Upper Palaeolithic site that was discovered at Rookery Farm, GreatWilbraham, Cambridgeshire in 2002. Diagnostic lithic material – three penknife points – indicates that the site wasprobably occupied between 12,000 and 11,000 BP, a time of deteriorating climatic conditions. Excavations discovereda small task site, located to take advantage of water and a lithic raw material source. The paper discusses RookeryFarm in relation to other sites of this date and patterns of mobility and settlement across north-west Europe.