Living on the edge: Neolithic herders in the eastern Sahara

Antiquity - Tập 64 Số 242 - Trang 79-96 - 1990
Angela E. Close1
1Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75275, USA

Tóm tắt

The Eastern Sahara – an arid waste since Neolithic times – is one of the very few regions where one can find, by simple surface survey, little clusters of stone artefacts lying just where they fell 5000 and more years ago. They offer rather direct and specific information about how stone was moved, used and left behind by mobile pastoralists in a marginal environment.

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