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The Stone Age of the Libyan Littoral: The Results of a War-Time Reconnaissance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

C. B. M. McBurney
C. B. M. McBurney
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Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
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Military service during the 1942–43 campaign in Libya provided an opportunity for myself and a few friends to make a preliminary reconnaissance of stone age remains along the 1200 miles of coast between Alexandria and Tripoli. Under the circumstances many of our observations were necessarily of a very incomplete and cursory nature. I have nevertheless thought it worth while presenting them as a whole, since they do at least provide a first estimate of the culture-sequence in this interesting and little-studied area. One cave and a few vaguely described, or very scanty, surface finds appear to make up the sum total of previously published discoveries.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 13 , 1947 , pp. 56 - 84
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1947

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