ALSF Dissemination Project: Lost Landscapes of Palaeolithic Britain The British Palaeolithic post-ALSF: Core Principles for Future Enhancement, Expansion and Engagement

This report has been written in response to a Brief provided by English Heritage entitled A Project Brief for an ALSF Dissemination Project ‘Lost Landscapes of the Palaeolithic’ (July 2011). The overall aim of the project is to raise awareness and widen understanding of the highly important contribution Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) projects have made to Palaeolithic archaeology.
The project forms a key component of Activity 3A3 of the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP: Deeply Buried/Subterranean Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeology) and is seen as an essential precursor to the initiation of a new programme of research aimed at enhancing the protection of the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene resource.
The proposed outcome of the project comprised three components:
A peer reviewed monograph providing an overview and comparative study of Palaeolithic/Pleistocene sites and landscapes of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, with a particular focus on the methods of investigation and results from ALSF projects – the Lost Landscapes of Palaeolithic Britain volume.
An update of The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (TERPS) gazetteer of sites and artefact collections with data from ALSF projects
A separate review or archive report for English Heritage to inform relevant research activities undertaken as part of the NHPP through assessments of best practice and the development of research priorities.
This report concerns the third component of the project and is intended as a supplement to the detailed review of ALSF projects and methods presented in the peer reviewed monograph, authored by the same team of Palaeolithic specialists