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Baker's Hole, the Glossary

Baker's Hole is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, mostly consisting of a back-filled quarry, adjacent to Ebbsfleet International railway station in Kent.^[1]

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28 relations: Acheulean, Blue Circle Industries, British Museum, Clactonian, Ebbsfleet International railway station, Ebbsfleet River, Geological Conservation Review, Geologists' Association, Gravesham, Hand axe, Industry (archaeology), Kent, Kent County Council, Levallois technique, Lithic core, Lithic flake, Marine isotope stages, Mousterian, Neanderthal, Northfleet, Portland cement, River Thames, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Stone Age, Swanscombe and Greenhithe, Swanscombe Palaeolithic site, Tram, William Aspdin.
1881 archaeological discoveries
Borough of Dartford
Stone Age sites in Kent

Acheulean

Acheulean (also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis.

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Blue Circle Industries

Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Clactonian

The Clactonian is the name given by archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture that dates to the early part of the Hoxnian Interglacial (corresponding to the global Marine Isotope Stage 11 and the continental Holstein Interglacial) around 424-415,000 years ago.

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Ebbsfleet International railway station

Ebbsfleet International railway station is in Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, east of London, England, near Dartford and the Bluewater Shopping Centre to the west and Gravesend to the east.

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Ebbsfleet River

Ebbsfleet River in Kent, south-east England, is a tributary of the Thames Estuary.

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Geological Conservation Review

The Geological Conservation Review (GCR) is produced by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee and is designed to identify those sites of national and international importance needed to show all the key scientific elements of the geological and geomorphological features of Britain.

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Geologists' Association

The Geologists' Association, founded in 1858, is a British organisation with charitable status for those concerned with the study of geology.

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Gravesham

Gravesham is a local government district with borough status in north-west Kent, England.

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Hand axe

A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history.

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Industry (archaeology)

In the archaeology of the Stone Age, an industry or technocomplex is a typological classification of stone tools.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Kent County Council

Kent County Council is a county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Kent in England.

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Levallois technique

The Levallois technique is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago during the Middle Palaeolithic period. Baker's Hole and Levallois technique are Mousterian.

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Lithic core

In archaeology, a lithic core is a distinctive artifact that results from the practice of lithic reduction.

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Lithic flake

In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis.

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Marine isotope stages

Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate, deduced from oxygen isotope data derived from deep sea core samples.

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Mousterian

The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

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Northfleet

Northfleet is a town in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England.

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Portland cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Swanscombe and Greenhithe

Swanscombe and Greenhithe is a civil parish in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England. Baker's Hole and Swanscombe and Greenhithe are borough of Dartford.

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Swanscombe Palaeolithic site

Swanscombe Skull Site or Swanscombe Heritage Park is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swanscombe, north-west Kent, England. Baker's Hole and Swanscombe Palaeolithic site are borough of Dartford, geological Conservation Review sites, sites of Special Scientific Interest in Kent and stone Age sites in Kent.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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William Aspdin

William Aspdin (23 September 1815 – 11 April 1864) was an English cement manufacturer, and a pioneer of the Portland cement industry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker's_Hole