Coygan Cave, Laugharne, South Wales, a Mousterian Site and Hyaena Den: a Report on the University of Cambridge Excavations Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • Excavation by Charles McBurney and John Clegg during the early 1960s revealed a sequence with a Mousterian occupation, of which the principal finds were two bout coupé handaxes, stratified close to the base of a Middle Devensian hyaena-den accumulation. The human occupation should belong within the period 64–38 ka with comparative and stratigraphic evidence favouring a date within the earlier part of this range before 50 ka. The hyaena-den occupation probably extends from at least 40 ka (if not 60 ka) until c. 24 ka.

authors

  • Aldhouse-Green, Stephen
  • Scott, Katharine
  • Schwarcz, Henry
  • Grün, Rainer
  • Housley, Rupert
  • Rae, Angela
  • Bevins, Richard
  • Redknap, Mark

publication date

  • 1995