Where this work sits in the wider landscape

A starting place for those who are new to figure stones and eoliths: background notes, curated galleries, and the developing Atlas of early tools and portable rock art.

code-driven catalogue of early tools and portable rock art with plate-level citations, age estimates and links back to original monographs and plates or photos wherever possible.

A growing gallery of South Downs finds, figure stones, portable rock art and flint tools. Selected photos and video of comparative material, presented as a searchable database with filter features.

Articles, discussions and visual documentation around eoliths, figure stones, portable rock art and the wider prehistoric art context, including scans, site notes and experimental thoughts.

Companion blog focusing more on ancient tools, methods and technological questions: mode 1 and mode 2 industries, ochre and fire technologies, cordage, tabular flint and mining, and the technological details that matter for early-tool claims.

Forum for community discussions and peer exchange: posting finds, arguing about edges, and comparing notes on both classic sites and new local assemblages.

Video series walking through the broad picture of my South Downs site, the find types, technologies, flint tool assemblages, and prehistoric art works, contextual, geology and science.

ORCID profile for the Eoliths.org project lead, listing persistent identifiers for publications and making it easier to cite or cross-link work across platforms.

Open-access paper outlining the broader research framework, with example plates and finds from the South Downs and classic European eolith sites.

Hosting space for drafts and related material connected to the Eoliths.org project, including earlier versions of “Eoliths and Figure Stones – Evidence of Cognition”.

Overview of classic eolith sites (Thenay, Boncelles, Kent plateau and others) with translated plates and discussion arguing for Tertiary stone tools.

English-language survey of the early eolith debate, including Rutot’s experiments, continental material and summaries of the main objections.

Early full publication of the Altamira polychrome bison ceiling with high-quality plates, foundational for accepting Palaeolithic cave art as genuine.

Monaco-funded survey of Cantabrian painted and engraved caves (Altamira, Castillo, Covalanas and others) with exhaustive plates of decorated panels.

UCL Institute of Archaeology project pages for the Middle Pleistocene site at Boxgrove (Eartham Quarry). Covers the sites, hominins, geology, stone tools, fauna and wider landscape mapping around your South Downs study area.

Popular overview of the Boxgrove excavations, human remains (“Boxgrove Man”), and the wider Palaeolithic landscape near your South Downs study area.

Major open digital library with millions of digitised books, journals and plates – including many classic French geology, palaeontology and prehistory volumes.

University of Lille’s patrimonial digital library, successor to IRIS and NordNum, hosting thousands of 19th–20th-century works, including Société géologique du Nord runs.

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences publication portal, including bulletins and memoirs relevant to Rutot and early Belgian work on eoliths and Oligocene industries.

Shared digital repository from a consortium of research libraries, with millions of scanned books and journals – useful for wider background and obscure prehistory titles.

Research-grade global fossil database with an interactive map. Filter by time slice and region to pull fossil occurrence lists for Miocene, Pliocene or Pleistocene Europe and cross-check faunas against your sites.

Specialist database of Cenozoic land mammals with strong coverage of European Miocene and Pliocene localities. Ideal for assembling faunal lists and correlating mammal assemblages with lithic horizons.

Natural History Museum A–Z of dinosaurs with facts, images and maps. Lets you filter dinosaurs by where they were found, including Europe, useful when checking possible dinosaur motifs in flint or cave art.

Broad, readable encyclopedia of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Good as a quick starting point before drilling into PBDB/NOW or primary literature, especially for visualising likely European taxa.

Open-access review of Quaternary dating methods and instrumental advances – radiocarbon, cosmogenic nuclides and related radiometric techniques used for Pleistocene contexts.

Historiographic look at how figures like Aimé Rutot used collections of stones and plates to argue for very deep prehistory, and how those arguments were received.