TY - JOUR
T1 - The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork
AU - Barker, Graeme
AU - Basell, Laura
AU - Brooks, Ian
AU - Burn, Lucilla
AU - Cartwright, Caroline
AU - Cole, Franca
AU - Davison, John
AU - Farr, Lucy
AU - Grün, Rainer
AU - Hamilton, Roisin
AU - Hunt, Chris
AU - Inglis, Robyn
AU - Jacobs, Zenobia
AU - Leitch, Victoria
AU - Morales, Jacob
AU - Morley, Iain
AU - Morley, Mike
AU - Pawley, Steven
AU - Pryor, Alex
AU - Rabett, Ryan
AU - Reynolds, Tim
AU - el-Rishi, Hwedi
AU - Roberts, Richard
AU - Simpson, David
AU - Stimpson, Chris
AU - Touati, Mohammed
AU - van der Veen, Marijke
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet ed-Dabba established that the sediments associated with the Upper Palaeolithic ‘Dabban’ industry were more or less entirely removed by the McBurney excavation. Exploratory excavations in the Hagfet al-Gama, a coastal cave west of the Haua Fteah, found evidence of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Hellenistic occupation. The initial results from the study of botanical remains, both macroscopic and microscopic, obtained in the 2007 season at the Haua Fteah confirm the potential of the site to yield a rich suite of materials to inform on climatic and environmental change, and on human activities in the cave.
AB - The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet ed-Dabba established that the sediments associated with the Upper Palaeolithic ‘Dabban’ industry were more or less entirely removed by the McBurney excavation. Exploratory excavations in the Hagfet al-Gama, a coastal cave west of the Haua Fteah, found evidence of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Hellenistic occupation. The initial results from the study of botanical remains, both macroscopic and microscopic, obtained in the 2007 season at the Haua Fteah confirm the potential of the site to yield a rich suite of materials to inform on climatic and environmental change, and on human activities in the cave.
U2 - 10.1017/S0263718900010074
DO - 10.1017/S0263718900010074
M3 - Article
VL - 39
SP - 175
EP - 221
JO - Libyan Studies
JF - Libyan Studies
SN - 0263-7189
ER -