TERPS - The English Rivers Project

The JJ Wymer Archive Project was commissioned by English Heritage (EH code 5088) with the support of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), with the intention of securing the Wymer archive and making selected elements of it accessible to public and professional audiences. One of these elements comprised John Wymer's card index of every known Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefact from Britain. These formed the basis of first the Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project and then the English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (TERPS), the results of which were published in 1999 as The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain. Wymer's work on the Southern Rivers Project and TERPS between 1993 and 1997 was conducted in conjunction with Wessex Archaeology, who also undertook the work on the Wymer Archive Project. As part of the development of the Wymer archive, the data gathered for TERPS have been used to create a database, which is available to search or download here. PDF versions of the two volumes of The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, for many years out of print, are also available to read or download.

JJ怀默档案项目（JJ Wymer Archive Project）由英国遗产协会（English Heritage，EH编码5088）委托实施，并获集料税可持续基金（Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund，ALSF）资助，旨在永久保存怀默档案，并向公众及专业群体开放其中精选内容以供查阅。其中一项核心馆藏为约翰·怀默（John Wymer）所整理的英国所有已知旧石器时代早期（Lower Palaeolithic）与中期（Middle Palaeolithic）人工制品卡片索引。
该索引先后作为南部河流域旧石器时代项目（Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project）及英国河流域旧石器时代项目（English Rivers Palaeolithic Project，TERPS）的核心数据基础，相关研究成果于1999年以《英国旧石器时代早期遗存》（The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain）为名正式出版。1993年至1997年间，怀默在参与南部河流域项目与TERPS研究工作期间，与韦塞克斯考古研究所（Wessex Archaeology）开展合作，后者同时承接了怀默档案项目的相关实施工作。
作为怀默档案开发工作的组成部分，TERPS项目采集的数据集已被用于构建可在此处检索与下载的数据库。此外，停印多年的《英国旧石器时代早期遗存》两卷本PDF版本也已上线，可供在线阅读或下载。