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1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Introduction : goals and challenges / Elena A.A. Garcea -- Palaeoenvironments of eastern North Africa and the Levant in the late Pleistocene / Jennifer R. Smith -- A new luminescence chronology for Aterian cave sites on the Atlantic coast of Morocco / Jean-Luc Schwenninger [and others] -- The spread of Aterian peoples in North Africa / Elena A.A. Garcea -- The Lower and Upper Later Stone Age of North Africa / Elena A.A. Garcea -- Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in the Egyptian Nile Valley / Pierre M. Vermeersch -- Late Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in the Nile Valley of Nubia and Upper Egypt / Romuald Schild, Fred Wendorf -- Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Levant / John J. Shea -- The Levantine Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic / Ofer Bar-Yosef, Anna Belfer-Cohen -- The Later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant : a brief history and review / Brian Boyd -- Bridging the gap between in and out of Africa / Elena A.A. Garcea |
| Summary |
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East. Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate. After decades of neglect, the archaeological record from North Africa has now been seen to parallel in significance that of the Near East. This book offers an opportunity to observe the Afro-Asian si |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed January 15, 2021) |
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Stone age -- Africa, North
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Stone age -- Middle East
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Prehistoric peoples -- Africa, North
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Prehistoric peoples -- Middle East
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Africa, North
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Middle East
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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ART -- African.
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Antiquities
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Hunting and gathering societies
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Prehistoric peoples
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Stone age
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Wildbeuter
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Steinzeit
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Africa, North -- Antiquities
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
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North Africa
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Middle East
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Naher Osten
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Nordafrika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garcea, Elena A. A., editor
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| ISBN |
9781842177341 |
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1842177346 |
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1299485219 |
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9781299485211 |
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9781842177327 |
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184217732X |
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