Marine mollusc exploitation in Mediterranean prehistory: an overview

AC Colonese, MA Mannino, DEBY Mayer, DA Fa… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Marine molluscs have been recovered from sites around the Mediterranean Sea dating as
far back as the Lower Palaeolithic, when hominins might have started consuming them (ca …

A late Pleistocene refugium in Mediterranean North Africa? Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from stable isotope analyses of land snail shells (Haua Fteah, Libya)

AL Prendergast, RE Stevens, TC O'Connell… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Pleistocene to Holocene archaeological record of North Africa is key to
understanding the emergence of anatomically modern humans into West Asia and Europe …

[HTML][HTML] The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)

K Douka, Z Jacobs, C Lane, R Grün, L Farr… - Journal of Human …, 2014 - Elsevier
The 1950s excavations by Charles McBurney in the Haua Fteah, a large karstic cave on the
coast of northeast Libya, revealed a deep sequence of human occupation. Most subsequent …

Origins of the Iberomaurusian in NW Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dating of the Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Taforalt Cave, Morocco

RNE Barton, A Bouzouggar, JT Hogue, S Lee… - Journal of Human …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent genetic studies based on the distribution of mtDNA of haplogroup U6 have led to
subtly different theories regarding the arrival of modern human populations in North Africa …

[HTML][HTML] Timing and pace of dairying inception and animal husbandry practices across Holocene North Africa

J Dunne, S di Lernia, M Chłodnicki, F Kherbouche… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The timing and extent of the adoption and exploitation of domesticates and their secondary
products, across Holocene North Africa, has long been the subject of debate. The three …

The exploitation of wild plants in Neolithic North Africa. Use-wear and residue analysis on non-knapped stone tools from the Haua Fteah cave, Cyrenaica, Libya

G Lucarini, A Radini, H Barton, G Barker - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The North African region offers up essential data for the study of the origins of the
earliest forms of plant exploitation. Data available from several Saharan and coastal areas in …

Changing patterns of eastern Mediterranean shellfish exploitation in the Late Glacial and Early Holocene: Oxygen isotope evidence from gastropod in Epipaleolithic to …

AL Prendergast, RE Stevens, TC O'connell… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The seasonal pattern of shellfish foraging at the archaeological site of Haua Fteah in the
Gebel Akhdar, Libya was investigated from the Epipaleolithic to the Neolithic via oxygen …

The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010: the fourth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007–2009 …

G Barker, A Antoniadou, S Armitage, I Brooks… - Libyan …, 2010 - cambridge.org
The paper reports on the fourth (2010) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory
Project, and on further results of analyses of artefacts and organic materials collected in the …

The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2012: the fifth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave

G Barker, P Bennett, L Farr, E Hill, C Hunt… - Libyan …, 2012 - cambridge.org
The paper reports on the fifth (2012) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory
Project. The primary focus of the season was the continuation of the excavation of the …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–1000 BC: An interpretative synthesis of knowns and unknowns

C Broodbank, G Lucarini - Journal of Mediterranean …, 2019 - journal.equinoxpub.com
Mediterranean Africa forms a crucial junction between the wider Saharan zone and the rest
of the Mediterranean. In contrast to its well-investigated history from the first millennium BC …