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Articles
Brass, M. 2003.
Tracing the Origins of the Ancient Egyptian Cattle Cult
. In Eyma, A. & Bennett, C. (eds.)
A Delta-Man in Yebu: Occassional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum No. 1
. Parkland: Universal Publishers, 101-110. (PDF onsite)
Wendorf, F. & Schild, R. 1994.
Are the Early Holocene Cattle in the Eastern Sahara Domestic or Wild?
Evolutionary Anthropology
3, 118-128.
Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S., Drake, N., Raffin, M. & Savage, T. 2003.
The Geoarchaeology of Western Sahara. Preliminary results of the first Anglo-Italian expedition in the liberated zone
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Sahara
14: pp. 63-80 (PDF offsite)
Brooks, N. 2006.
Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity
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Quaternary International
(draft version, PDF offsite).
Brooks, N. 2004.
Beyond collapse: the role of climatic desiccation in the emergence of complex societies in the middle Holocene
. In Leroy, S. & Costa, P. (Eds.)
Environmental Catastrophes in Mauritania, the Desert and the Coast. Abstract Volume and Field Guide. Mauritania, 4-18 January 2004
. First Joint Meeting of ICSU Dark Nature and IGCP 490. (PDF offsite)
Anag, G., Di Lernia, S., Cremaschi, M. & Liverani, M. 2002.
Environment, archaeology, and oil. The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara)
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African Archaeological Review
19 (2): 67-73. (PDF offsite)
Cremaschi, M. & Di Lernia, S. 1999.
Holocene climatic changes and cultural dynamics in Libyan Sahara
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African Archaeological Review
16 (4): 211-238. (PDF offsite)
Cremaschi, M., Di Lernia, S. & Garcea, E. 1998.
Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment and Archaeology
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African Archaeological Review
15 (4): 261-286. (PDF offsite)
Di Lernia, S. 2001.
Dismantling dung: Delayed use of food resources among Early Holocene foragers of the Libyan Sahara
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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
19: 1-34. (PDF offsite)
Minozzi, S., Manzi, G., Ricci, F., di Lernia, S. & Borgognini Tarli, S.M. 2003.
Nonalimentary tooth use in prehistory: an Example from Early Holocene in Central Sahara (Uan Muhuggiag, Tadrart Acacus, Libya)
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology
120: 225-232. (PDF offsite)
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The Fezzan Project: Geoarchaeology of the Sahara
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Archaeology
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Recent environmental change
Italian-Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus and Messak
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: Presentation, history, aims, funding, partners and staff
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: Tourism, oil drilling and development
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: Geoarchaeology, prehistoric archaeology, rock art, historic archaeology and landscapes
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