A general look at the residential sites of the Upper Pleistocene in Libya and the cross cultural relations with its desert-coastal and Eastern Mediterranean.
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البليستوسين الأعلى, ايكولوجي, ثقافوي, البين, ثقافية, العاترية, الصيادين, الجامعين, الباليوليتي الأوسطAbstract
All the available historical, archaeological, geological evidence /information on the sites human residence in the Upper Pleistocene in Libya has been re-recollected and assembled in an attempt to provide panoramic picture and research based on an ecological-cultural perspective that seeks to identify climate changes in the Quaternary period environment and the impact of such climate changes on the lives of hunter-gatherers in Libya as well as studying cross cultural relations between human residence sites in Libya with its desert-coastal and Eastern Mediterranean counterparts. However, Stratigraphic and chronological tensions and synthetic materials coming from the Haua Fteah cave in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, the Uan Afuda cave in Acacus and several sites in the Western Mountain/ Jabal Nafusa provide fertile ground for study, where points of similarity and regional differences can be tracked and linked to the ecological and technical mechanisms of the cultural/economic shift.
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