Nick is a curator of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections at the British Museum. He directed and published the excavations at High Lodge and Barnham (both Suffolk) and has published many papers on the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. He is currently working on the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project.

Address: The British Museum, Department of Prehistory and Europe (Quaternary Section), Franks House, 38-56 Orsman Road, London. N1 5QJ

Tel: 0207 3238093

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Dr Bevan is a freelance lithics and small finds specialist with twenty years experience in the analysis of post-Palaeolithic flint assemblages. Her past work includes the analysis of Mesolithic to Iron Age assemblages, mainly from the midlands, southern England and south Wales. Her most recent work involved the analysis of large multi-period flint assemblages from the London Gravels projects for the Museum of London Archeology Service.

In addition to her freelance work on flint and small finds, Lynne works on a part time basis for the Institute of Field Archeologists as their Jobs Information Service compiler.

Address: 4 Randell Square, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire SA16 0TY

Tel: 0121 415 5835

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Clive is a landscape archeologist, specializing in lithic analysis. He has just finished his doctoral thesis at King Alfred's College, Winchester, focusing on the evidence for settlement in the Somerset Levels and Mendip Hills, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 70. Clive is also the lithic specialist for The Shapwick Project (King Alfred's College & University of Bristol) and The Southern Quantocks Archeological Project (King Alfred's College).

Address: 2 Pine Road, South Wootton, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 3JP

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Chris runs his own archaeological business 'Chris Butler Archaeological Services' which undertakes a range of archaeological work in the South-East, including PPG16 related projects, landscape survey and flintwork analysis. He also teaches Archaeology as an Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex, and teaches and examines Archaeology at A-Level. Chris wrote 'Prehistoric Flintwork' in 2005, which is the only widely available guide to prehistoric flintwork in the UK, and is published by Tempus Publishing Ltd.

Address: Rosedale, Berwick, Polegate, East Sussex. BN26 6TB

Tel: 01323 871021 (H)

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Kate is a part-time flint specialist. Her recent projects include the analysis of the flint assemblages from Ascott-under-Wychwood long barrow (Oxfordshire), Terminal 5 (Heathrow), White Horse Stone and Beechbrook Wood (sites on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link). Current research interests include the flint work of the earlier Neolithic period in Britain and the use of low-power use-wear analysis in the interpretation of assemblages.

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Rebecca has just left her post as a flint specialist at Oxford Archeology. Her recent work includes assemblages from sites along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link from Kent to London and Fairfield Park, Bedfordshire, as well as a range of smaller evaluation assemblages.

Rebecca recently completed the MA Artefact Studies course at UCL where she concentrated on flint analysis. She has a particular love for flint arrowheads, stemming from her undergraduate research.

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David is an Archeological Investigator for English Heritage. He is interested in lithics of all periods, but in particular mines, quarries and raw material sources, and Neolithic ground axes.

Address: English Heritage, Kemble Drive, Swindon. SN2 2GZ

Tel: 01793 414901

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Rob is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Reading. He recently excavated at the British Lower Palaeolithic site of Broom (Devon & Dorset), and is currently completing the publication of the site (with Dr Chris Green). His past and current work has explored the river terrace artefact archives of the Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic in Britain (particularly the Solent River), and the formation of river terrace assemblages (including the use of experimental archaeology). He is currently investigating the British Lower Palaeolithic assemblage at the site of Corfe Mullen (Dorset), including fieldwork with Dr John McNabb, and developing various new projects (see Robs Website). Until recently Rob acted as Editor of Lithics, before handing over to Beccy Scott and Andy Shaw.

Address: Dept. of Archaeology, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AB, UK

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Cate is currently studying flint daggers across Europe and in the process of founding a flint dagger study group.

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Wei is presently engaged in Experimental investigations into site formation processes and the earlier Palaeolithic record.

Address: Dept of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AB.

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Francis is based in the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, where he has recently been appointed Principal Research Fellow, leading the Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project . He also works as a specialist Palaeolithic /Quaternary archaeological consultant, working on pre-development assessments, evaluations and excavations, as well as doing lithic analysis. Previous work includes being Senior Supervisor for the Boxgrove Hominid Project, and directing and writing up Palaeolithic fieldwork at Swanscombe (Kent) and Red Barns (Hants). He is also involved with archaeology in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, where there has recently been the spectacular find of a butchered elephant, 400,000 years old. For more details of his current work click here.

Address: Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton. SO17 1BJ

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