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Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe (2024)
Journal Article
White, M., Rawlinson, A., Foulds, F., Dale, L., Davis, R., Bridgland, D., …Ashton, N. (2024). Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 7(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00177-z

This paper re-examines earlier Palaeolithic core technology from British sites assigned to MIS 11, 9, and 7 using primarily a châine opératoire approach, with the objective of better understanding the earliest occurrence and distribution of Levallois... Read More about Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe.

Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic (2024)
Journal Article
Dale, L., Rawlinson, A., Knowles, P., Foulds, F., Ashton, N., Bridgland, D., & White, M. (2024). Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic. Antiquity, 98(398), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.30

Hypertrophic ‘giant’ handaxes are a rare component of Acheulean assemblages, yet have been central to debates relating to the social, cognitive and cultural ‘meaning’ of these enigmatic tools. The authors examine giant handaxes from the perspective o... Read More about Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic.

Miscellaneous materials (2020)
Book Chapter
Foulds, E., Shepherd, J., Shaffrey, R., Green, C., Poole, C., Moore, T., & Foulds, F. (2020). Miscellaneous materials. In T. Moor (Ed.), A Biography of Power : Research and excavations at the Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979–2017) (331-346). Archaeopress

Lithics (2019)
Book Chapter
Foulds, F. (2019). Lithics. In M. Holst, & G. Speed (Eds.), Death, Burial and Identity : 3000 years of death in the Vale of Mowbray (558-559). Northern Archaeological Associates. https://doi.org/10.5284/1050910

Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene (2018)
Journal Article
White, M., & Foulds, F. (2018). Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene. Antiquity, 92(362), 304-319. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.35

Bilateral symmetry in handaxes has significant implications for hominin cognitive and socio-behavioural evolution. Here the authors show that high levels of symmetry occur in the British Late Middle Pleistocene Acheulean, which they consider to be a... Read More about Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene.

A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula (2017)
Journal Article
Foulds, F., Shuttleworth, A., Sinclair, A., Alsharekh, A., Al Ghamdi, S., Inglis, R., & Bailey, G. (2017). A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula. Antiquity, 91(360), 1421-1434. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.153

The role played by the Arabian Peninsula in hominin dispersals out of Africa has long been debated. The DISPERSE Project has focused on south-western Arabia as a possible centre of hominin settlement and a primary stepping-stone for such dispersals.... Read More about A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula.

Cave acoustics in prehistory: exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response (2017)
Journal Article
Fazenda, B., Scarre, C., Till, R., Jiménez Pasalodos, R., Rojo Guerra, M., Tejedor, C., …Foulds, F. (2017). Cave acoustics in prehistory: exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(3), 1332-1349. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4998721

During the 1980 s, acoustic studies of Upper Palaeolithic imagery in French caves—using the technology then available—suggested a relationship between acoustic response and the location of visual motifs. This paper presents an investigation, using mo... Read More about Cave acoustics in prehistory: exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response.

Exploring late Neanderthal locales : preliminary reanalyses of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Axe Valley (2016)
Journal Article
Foulds, F. (2016). Exploring late Neanderthal locales : preliminary reanalyses of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Axe Valley. Lithics, 37, 79-82

Recently, White & Pettitt (2011) put forward the concept of Local Operational Areas (LOAs) for several regions in late Middle Palaeolithic Britain. They suggested that local clusters of sites and findspots represent regional areas in which Neandertha... Read More about Exploring late Neanderthal locales : preliminary reanalyses of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Axe Valley.

Invisible Individuals, Visible Groups: On the evidence for individuals and groups at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK (2014)
Book Chapter
Foulds, F. (2014). Invisible Individuals, Visible Groups: On the evidence for individuals and groups at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK. In F. Foulds, H. Drinkall, A. Perri, D. Clinnick, & J. Walker (Eds.), Wild things : recent advances in palaeolithic and mesolithic research (12-40). Oxbow Books

An emphasis on socially orientated approaches to studying the Palaeolithic has become commonplace. As a result, a “bottom up” approach to interpreting the material record has developed, which emphasises the individual as the appropriate analytical un... Read More about Invisible Individuals, Visible Groups: On the evidence for individuals and groups at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK.

Introduction (2013)
Book Chapter
Foulds, F. (2013). Introduction. In F. Foulds (Ed.), Experimental archaeology and theory : recent approaches to archaeological hypotheses (1-8). Oxbow Books

Archaeology is, in its most basic sense, a discipline founded on hypotheses. Our interpretations often present hypothetical explanations of the material record that are established through our understanding and synthesis of the data available to us.... Read More about Introduction.

The Enigmatic Handaxe: In Search of Idiosyncrasies in Bifacial Technology through Three-Dimensional Form (2013)
Book Chapter
Foulds, F. (2013). The Enigmatic Handaxe: In Search of Idiosyncrasies in Bifacial Technology through Three-Dimensional Form. In F. Foulds (Ed.), Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approches to Archaeological Hypotheses (101-129). Oxbow Books

Palaeolithic archaeology has experienced a dramatic shift from processual to post-processual theory in recent years. As a result we have begun to adjust our focus from interpreting the roles of groups of hominids to investigating the way in which ‘in... Read More about The Enigmatic Handaxe: In Search of Idiosyncrasies in Bifacial Technology through Three-Dimensional Form.

Investigating the Individual? An Experimental Approach through Lithic Refitting (2010)
Journal Article
Foulds, F. (2010). Investigating the Individual? An Experimental Approach through Lithic Refitting. Lithics, 31, 6-19

Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in the theoretical outlook of Palaeolithic archaeologists. As a result, the interpretive focus of archaeological investigations has begun to shift from the actions of hominin groups to the ways in which individ... Read More about Investigating the Individual? An Experimental Approach through Lithic Refitting.