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South-eastern Mediterranean peoples between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago.
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ISBN: 9781842174036 1842174037 9781842177341 1842177346 1299485219 9781299485211 184217732X 9781842177327 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow

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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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Landscape of the megaliths : excavation and fieldwork on the Avebury monuments, 1997 - 2003.
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ISBN: 9781782975236 1782975233 9781782975250 178297525X 9781842179710 1842179713 9781842173138 1842173138 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow

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This volume describes the results of the Longstones Project , a joint-universities programme of excavation and survey designed to develop a fuller understanding of the context and dynamics of monument construction in the later Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of the Avebury region, Wiltshire. Several elements of this internationally important prehistoric monument complex were investigated: an early-mid 3rd millennium BC enclosure at Beckhampton; the recently re-discovered Beckhampton Avenue and Longstones Cove; a section of the West Kennet Avenue; the Falkner's stone circle; and the Cove within A

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