Here are some links to open access publications to help frame the context of our AHRC funded network project:

• The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908), by Chris Stringer (Evolutionary Anthropology, volume 21, issue 3): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.21311/full
• Human Evolution in the Middle Pleistocene: The Role of Homo heidelbergensis, by G. Philip Rightmire (Evolutionary Anthropology, volume 6 issue 6): http://www.archeo.uw.edu.pl/zalaczniki/upload23.pdf
• Mauer – the type site of Homo heidelbergensis: palaeoenvironment and age, by G. A. Wagner et al. (Quaternary Science Reviews, volume 30, issues 11-12): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H_Schreiber/publication/229107471_Mauer__the_type_site_of_Homo_heidelbergensis_palaeoenvironment_and_age/links/5464b3340cf2cb7e9dac1f49.pdf
• The origin of Neandertals, by Jean-Jacques Hublin (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 106, issue 38): http://www.pnas.org/content/106/38/16022.long
• Before the Emergence of Homo sapiens: Overview on the Early-to-Middle Pleistocene Fossil Record (with a Proposal about Homo heidelbergensis at the subspecific level), by Giorgio Manzi (International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, volume 2011): http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ijeb/2011/582678.pdf
• Patterns of hominid evolution and dispersal in the Middle Pleistocene, by G. Philip Rightmire (Quaternary International, volume 75): http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic887934.files/Rightmire_2001A.pdf
• Homo in the Middle Pleistocene: Hypodigms, Variation, and Species Recognition, by G. Philip Rightmire (Evolutionary Anthropology, volume 17): http://www.talkingneanderthal.com/Rightmire-2008.pdf
• Communicative capacities in Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sierra de Atapuerca in Spain, by I. Martínez et al. (Quaternary International, volume 295): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ignacio_Martinez8/publication/235219957_Communicative_capacities_in_Middle_Pleistocene_humans_from_the_Sierra_de_Atapuerca_in_Spain/links/0912f512f3e7267053000000.pdf
• A cranium for the earliest Europeans: Phylogenetic position of the hominid from Ceprano, Italy, by G. Manzi et al. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 98, issue no. 117): http://www.pnas.org/content/98/17/10011.full
• New evidence for complex climate change in MIS 11 from Hoxne, Suffolk, UK, by Nick Ashton et al. (Quaternary Science Reviews, volume 27, issues 7-8): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379108000085
• Riparian landscapes and human habitat preferences during the Hoxnian (MIS 11) Interglacial: by Nick Ashton et al. (Journal of Quaternary Science, volume 21, issue 5): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.1032/epdf