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WEAP

The Western European Acheulian Project

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WEAP project word cloud

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Project "WEAP" data sheet

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Coordinator	BRITISH MUSEUM Organization address address: GREAT RUSSELL STREET city: London postcode: WC1B 3DG website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Project website	https://www.weap.es
Total cost	195˙454 €
EC max contribution	195˙454 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-09-01 to 2019-08-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BRITISH MUSEUM BRITISH MUSEUM Organization address address: GREAT RUSSELL STREET city: London postcode: WC1B 3DG website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (London)	coordinator	195˙454.00

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Project objective

The Western European Acheulean Project (WEAP) aims to characterize the occupational pattern of western Europe during the Middle Pleistocene (MP) –700 to 300Ka–, through the study of Acheulean technology. Recent research has shown that the Atlantic seaboard is the most likely route for colonisation due to the more oceanic climate compared to eastern Europe and to the richer range of resources in coastal areas. Due to cyclical changes in climate with glaciations and interglacials, northern Europe was frequently depopulated and then recolonized through this period probably from source areas in southern France and Iberia. This route-way should therefore bear witness to the cultural links between north and south. From 1 million to 600,000 years ago there is evidence of brief pioneering events in north-west Europe with a small number of sites and small numbers of stone tool artefacts. After 600,000 year ago more sustained occupation is shown by the increase in sites and the much large stone tool assemblages. They also show technological innovation in the form handaxes and possibly in the use of fire, clothing and shelter, which led to the first sustained occupation of northern latitudes. Although there has been much research and new sites excavated over the last twenty years, there has been little integration between the work in Spain, Britain and France. Based on the applicant’s previous experience, WEAP proposes to create a common method of analysis for the study of six Middle Pleistocene sites from UK and France –in agreement with three Middle Pleistocene technologists–, the use of the experimental technology to complete the archaeological record, and the use of new methodological approaches, such as the 3D scanning technology as the most appropriated statistical analysis, to improve understanding of behavioural patterns in order to build models of human dispersals from south-west to north-west Europe.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Paula GarcÃa-Medrano, Antonella Pedergnana, Lena Asryan, Andreu OllÃ©, Alfonso Benito-Calvo The quartzite cleavers form Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain): the standardization of shape published pages: 33-44, ISSN: 1695-5862, DOI:	Butlleti ArqueolÃ²gic	2020-01-29
2019	Paula GarcÃa-Medrano, Andreu OllÃ©, Nick Ashton, Mark B. Roberts The Mental Template in Handaxe Manufacture: New Insights into Acheulean Lithic Technological Behavior at Boxgrove, Sussex, UK published pages: 396-422, ISSN: 1072-5369, DOI: 10.1007/s10816-018-9376-0	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26/1	2020-01-29
2020	Paula GarcÃa-Medrano, ElÃas Maldonado-Garrido, Nick Ashton, Andreu OllÃ© Objectifying processes: the use of Geometric Morphometry and Multivariate analyses on the Acheulean tools published pages: , ISSN: 2055-0472, DOI:	Journal of Lithic Studies	2020-01-29
2020	Paula GarcÃa-Medrano, Nick Ashton, Marie-HÃ©lÃ¨ne Moncel, Andreu OllÃ© The WEAP Method: A new age in the analysis of the Acheulean handaxes published pages: , ISSN: 2520-8217, DOI:	Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology	2020-01-29

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