Between the Mediterranean and the Sahara: geoarchaeological reconnaissance in the Jebel Gharbi, Libya.(Research)

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Introduction

Recent archaeological research in North Africa has brought into focus the final phase of the Pleistocene which increasingly appears to have been a period of critical environmental and human changes. Starting from the Middle Palaeolithic in the Nile Valley, it has been possible to reconstruct the entire sequence related to the Nile floodings and to recognise different cultural phases linked with the gradual emergence of anatomically modern humans (Vermeersch 2000). However, with a few exceptions (i.e. Roche 1963; Lubell 2000; Barton et al. 2005; Wengler et al. in ...

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