[...]... hammerstones Contexts of Xint artefacts from Church Hole Radiocarbon determinations for Late Upper Palaeolithic human activity at Church Hole Radiocarbon determinations for Late Upper Palaeolithic human activity at Creswell Crags Late Upper Palaeolithic artefacts from Church Hole Butt indices for blades/bladelets in British Late Upper Palaeolithic collections Radiocarbon determinations relevant to the dating... letters and articles in the press ensued Heath had insinuated that the engraved bone was placed in the Creswell Crags cave by someone, having been brought from some other place Dawkins (in Heath Historical Background to Discovery of Cave Art 5 1880: 5) stressed that he, unlike Heath, had been present in Robin Hood Cave when Mello made the discovery In the course of a protracted discussion in the Manchester... Palaeolithic Cave Art in the Wye Valley Current Anthropology, 22/5: 601–2 —— Pinder, A., and Russell, R C 1981 Cave Art Discovery in Britain Illustrated London News, 6990/269 (Jan.), 31–4 Russell, M 2000 Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain Stroud: Tempus Sieveking, A 1987 A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Art in the British Museum London: British Museum ´ Sieveking, G 1972 Art Mobilier in Britain, in M Almagro... to wishful thinking and overinterpretation of largely natural marks, although his deer image may possibly be acceptable Shortly afterwards, in 1928, during excavations in Creswell s Pin Hole Cave, he discovered the famous ‘Pin Hole Cave man’, an engraving on a rib bone which he interpreted as ‘a masked human Wgure in the act of dancing a ceremonial dance’ (1928: 28) (Fig 1.3) He stated that the image... ‘vulva’ in Robin Hood Cave U-series results for Xowstones overlying engravings in Church Hole and Robin Hood Cave U-series results for Xowstones overlying engravings in Church Hole and Robin Hood Cave and calibrated radiocarbon dates of humanly modiWed bones from Creswell The ‘Birds’ panel located within the passageway in Church Hole The ‘Birds’ panel shaded with an accessibility shading algorithm Simulated... of the Caves of Creswell Crags Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 33: 589–612 —— 1880 Early Man in Britain London: Macmillan —— 1925 Late Palaeolithic Art in the Cresswell Caves Man, 25/28 (March) Garrod, D A E 1926 The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain Oxford: Clarendon Grigson, G 1956 Caves, Crags, and Coal Mines Derbyshire Countryside, 21/3 (May/ June), 22–3 —— 1957 The Painted Caves London:... for cave art and to discover it there, that is, its examples of Wgurative Ice Age engravings, the only ones in Britain may perhaps be a planted intrusion in one case, and illusory and non-existent in the others Further relevant evidence will come, of course, from the future excavation and careful sieving of the mounds of sediments lying in front of Church Hole, Pin Hole, and Robin Hood Caves at Creswell if... initial survey and, sure enough, we rapidly encountered engraved marks in a number of caves, which we will be investigating more fully and systematically in the near future At the well-known sites of Creswell Crags, on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, we found both Wgurative and non-Wgurative engravings of the period This was third time lucky for British cave art, following two false alarms In. .. bison head Interestingly, an account in Nature (115/2896 (2 May 1925), 658–9) revealed that, after Armstrong’s paper was read to the Royal Anthropological Institute in April, a letter from Dawkins was read in which he entered a caveat against acceptance of the engravings on bone from Mother Grundy’s Parlour as of human origin In his opinion they were due to the action of roots.’ In the ensuing discussion,... Hole Cave, Creswell Crags, certainly constituted a milestone in prehistoric investigations in the United Kingdom For various reasons, the discovery team, comprising Sergio Ripoll, Paul G Bahn, and Paul B Pettitt was not able to reconvene to continue the work until the ˜ end of June At that time we incorporated Francisco J Munoz into the team to help us in the work of documentation and prospection At . x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" PALAEOLITHIC CAVE ART AT CRESWELL CRAGS IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT This page intentionally left blank Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context PAUL PETT ITT,. Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on. Discovery of Cave Art at Creswell Crags Paul G. Bahn INTRODUCTION: PREVIOUS CLAIMS FOR BRITISH CAVE ART On 14 April 2003, we made the Wrst discovery of Palaeolithic cave art in Britain. Since portable art