Table des matières
Alice Leplongeon, Mae Goder-Goldberger et David Pleurdeau
PrefaceThe Nile Valley: environmental refugium or corridor of dispersals?
Part 1. The Nile Valley and adjacent deserts
Martin Williams
Water, wind, ice and seaPrehistoric environments in the Nile Basin between 75,000 and 15,000 years
Maxine R. Kleindienst, Mary M.A. McDonald, Anne R. Skinner et al.
Evidence for Pleistocene habitability and occupations in the Western Desert of Egypt, MIS 4 through early MIS 2Romuald Schild, Christopher L. Hill et Andrzej Bluszcz
Age of the Late Middle Palaeolithic Nile aggradationThe Khormusan and the Atmur El Kibeish Aterian
- Introduction
- The LMP aggradation
- The Late Palaeolithic depositional suite
- Evidence for Last Interglacial (MIS 5e-MIS 5a) lakes in the Atmur El Kibeish peneplain and southern Egypt
- Evidence for MIS 5-MIS 2 lakes in the New Valley and the Aterian in the Western Desert
- Proposing an age for the LMP aggradation
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
Elena A.A. Garcea
The Sudanese Nile ValleyThe ultimate frontiers of the Aterian and the northern and southern Out of Africa routes of early anatomically modern humans
Piotr Osypiński
Upper Nubia and beyond during the Terminal PleistoceneNew premises for the late occurrence of the Middle Stone Age
- Introduction
- Current trends in lithic analysis - brief overview of methods used for the Affad assemblage analysis
- The case of Affad - presentation of results
- Seasonality of Late Pleistocene settlement in Affad
- Variants of Levallois methods in Affad
- Issue of blade and microlithic variants of tool blank production
- Educational dimension of the lithics
- Phenomenon of collection of stone artefacts and their reutilisation at Pleistocene sites
- Dating the Affad assemblages
- Discussion: Nubian industries from the Affad evidence
- Conclusions
Pierre M. Vermeersch
Human occupation density and mobility in the lower Nile Valley(75,000‑15,000 years ago)
Part 2. Neighbouring regions: North Africa, eastern Africa and the Levant
Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey et Nick Barton
Cultural transitions in the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age records of Northwest AfricaAn overview from Morocco
- Introduction
- Definition, origin and chronology of the Northwest African MSA
- The Iberomaurusian
- Indigenous development
- Exogenous development
- Continuity with the Middle Stone Age
- Potential transitions within the Northwest African Middle Stone Age
- 300,000 years-145,000 years
- 145,000 years-60,000 years
- 60,000 to 30,000 years
- 30,000 to 15,000 years
- 15,000‑12,700 years
- Concluding discussion
- Acknowledgements
Eslem Ben Arous, Christophe Falguères, Roland Nespoulet et al.
Review of chronological data from the Rabat-Témara caves (Morocco)Implications for understanding human occupation in north-west Africa during the Late Pleistocene
- Introduction
- Available stratigraphies in the Témara region: an overview
- Témara caves: Stratigraphy and dating
- Dar es Soltan 1
- Dar es Soltan 2
- El Harhoura 1
- El Harhoura 2
- El Mnasra
- Contrebandiers
- Chaperon-Rouge open-air site
- Same fillings, same mixing problems: A limitation with regard to OSL and ESR dating
- Chronological comparison
- Chronological data from the Témara caves: A heterogeneous framework for the end of the MSA
- Upland sequences
- Climate and human mobility between coastal and inland areas
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
Lucy Farr, Robyn Inglis et Graeme Barker
Sedimentary and Human Responses to Aridity in Mediterranean CavesThe MIS 4‑2 Record of the Haua Fteah (Cyrenaica, Northeast Libya)
Mae Goder-Goldberger
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition as seen from Far’ah II and Boker Tachtit, IsraelDoes it relate to the Nile Valley?
Ofer Marder et A. Nigel Goring-Morris
The Lithic Technologies of the Epipalaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Negev, IsraelImplications from Refitting Studies
- Introduction
- The Epipalaeolithic chrono-stratigraphic framework
- Early Epipalaeolithic (25‑18.5 ka cal BP)
- Kebaran Complex (22‑18.5 ka cal BP)
- Nizzanan (20‑18.7/5 ka cal BP)
- Middle Epipalaeolithic (18.5‑15 ka cal BP)
- Geometric Kebaran (18‑15 ka cal BP)
- Mushabian (c. 18.5/17.75‑15 ka cal BP)
- Ramonian (17.75‑15 ka cal BP)
- Late Epipalaeolithic
- Terminal Ramonian/Early Natufian (15‑13 ka cal BP) - Late Natufian (13.5‑11.5 ka cal BP)
- The refitted assemblages
- Results
- The microlithic chaîne opératoire
- Raw Material Exploitation
- Core Shaping-out
- Blank Production
- Core Maintenance and Discard
- Microlith Production
- Discussion
- Summary and concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
Alice Leplongeon, Clément Ménard, Katja Douze et al.
The Horn of Africa at the end of the Pleistocene (75‑12 ka) in its macroregional context- Introduction
- Before the Big Dry (75‑29 ka): increased technological variability
- The Horn of Africa during the Big Dry (MIS 2, 29‑15 ka): a scarcely inhabited region?
- After the Big Dry (15‑12 ka): variability in the LSA, diversification of subsistence strategies
- Discussion
- A late MSA/LSA transition in the Horn of Africa?
- The Horn of Africa: a crossroad region?
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
Mae Goder-Goldberger, Alice Leplongeon et David Pleurdeau
Postface