Between the Mediterranean and the Sahara: Geoarchaeological reconnaissance in the Jebel Gharbi, Libya

Antiquity

Volumn 80, Issue 309, 2006, Pages 567-582

  Barich, Barbara E ^a   Garcea, Elena A A ^b   Giraudi, Carlo ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aterian; Iberomaurusian; Later Stone Age; Libya; Middle Stone Age; Neolithic; Sahara

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HUNTER-GATHERER; STONE AGE;

AFRICA; JEBEL GHARBI; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; NORTH AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 33749431526     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094047     Document Type: Article

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