THE
ESSEX NATURALIST:
BEING THE
Journal of the Essex Field Club.
VOLUME XXIV.
THE PALAEOLITHIC INDUSTRIES OF THE
CLACTON AND DOVERCOURT DISTRICTS.
By S. HAZZLEDINE WARREN, F.G.S.
(Read Feb. 27th, 1932 ; with later additions.)
(With 1 Plate and 5 Text Figures.)
Introduction.
FOR some years it has been my intention to deal on compre-
hensive lines with the gravels of the Tendring Hundred
between Colchester and the sea coast. From time to time I have
visited many gravel pits and temporary exposures over this area,
but generally speaking, I have found so little in the way of imple-
ments or fauna that I have been tempted away to devote most
of my time and energies to the rich sea-coast sites while these
remain available for study.
Although I have not carried out the comprehensive work
that I contemplated I feel that the incomplete information I
have gathered may usefully be placed on record, together with
some tentative suggestions upon the outstanding problems of
correlation.
The New Perspective in Prehistory.
I think that recent investigations have conclusively proved
that the Palaeolithic succession is more complex than we formerly
imagined.
Thirty years ago one not unnaturally thought that the
sequence of the Palaeolithic industries represented the evolution
of the human race through a steady development of successive
stages. Although that is true in a very broad sense, it is now
sufficiently obvious that the various industries will not fit when
placed together in a continuous sequence.
If we glance at the anthropology of the present day nothing
is more striking than the manner in which widely different races