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The geology of the area is to be found in:

Aitkenhead N 2002, The Pennines and adjacent areas (4th edition), British Regional Geology 8, Keyworth: British Geological Survey

English nature website of “the southern magnesian limestone natural area” http://www.english-nature.org.uk/science/natural/profiles%5CnaProfile23.pdf

Recent publications on the cave art are:

Paul G. Bahn, Paul Pettitt and Sergio Ripoll, 2003, Discovery of Palaeolithic cave art in Britain Antiquity, Volume 77 Number 296 June, 227 – 231
Paul Bahn, Francisco Muñoz, Paul Pettitt & Sergio Ripoll, 2004, New discoveries of cave art in Church Hole (Creswell Crags, England), Antiquity Vol 78, No 300 June
Ripoll, Sergio, Francisco Muñoz, Paul G. Bahn, and Paul Pettitt, 2004, Palaeolithic cave engravings at Creswell Crags, England Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol 70. 93 – 105.

Publications on Creswell Crags and the Creswellian industry in Nottinghamshire in the Transactions of the Thoroton Society are:

Jacobi Roger, D Garton and Jenny Brown 2001 Field walking and the late Upper Palaeolithic of Nottinghamshire, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 105, 17- 21. This includes a detailed account of the Creswellian flints from s Church Hole.
Garton D 1993 A late Upper Palaeolithic site near Newark, Nottinghamshire, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 98, 145

For those interested in DNA, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the publications are:

Krings, M. et al. 2000, A view of Neanderthal genetic diversity. Nature Genetics. 26, 144 –146
Serre, D. et al. 2004, No evidence of Neandertal mtDNA contribution to early modern humans, PLoS Biology, 2, 0313–0317.

There is an excellent Research bibliography on Creswell Heritage Trust website:

http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/Books_and_links/Research.htm.

Secondary

For secondary printed material again the Creswell Heritage Trust has done the work in its Teachers Bibliography:

http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/Books_and_links/Teacher.htm.

We may also look at the account written by Cornelius Brown in his A History of Nottinghamshire (1896):

"The most picturesque exposure of the magnesian limestone in Nottinghamshire is at Creswell Crags, near Worksop. Here time and a running stream have carved out and fashioned a long ravine. On each side of the stream in the tall limestone cliffs are deep caverns, which have recently been explored by a committee of the British Association. In these caverns have been found an amazing number of remains of animals long ago extinct in this country. Amongst these were the lion, tiger, leopard, hyena, wolf, bear, rhinoceros, bison, hippopotamus, Arctic fox, and the elephant. Doubtless the Creswell caves were in ages past the abode of the cave-dwelling hyenas who dragged their prey into these recesses in the rock. A large proportion of the bones found were gnawed after the manner peculiar to the hyena tribe. In one of these caves the writer discovered a 'first milk molar' of the mammoth (Elephas primigenius), which completed the national collection of the teeth of the mammoth. Before this specimen was handed over to the British Museum, it was described by Sir Richard Owen, F.R.S., before the Geological Society of London. A portion of Creswell Crags is in Derbyshire, but the magnesian limestone of that spot is a totally distinct rock from the 'mountain limestone,' which is such a familiar feature in the scenery of Derbyshire."