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Some Pleistocene Faunas of the Mediterranean Coastal Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

E. S. Higgs
E. S. Higgs
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Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
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The object of this paper is to compare the fauna from sites on the Mediterranean coast having a similar physiography at the present day and which may have responded to climatic change in a similar way during the Pleistocene.

Carbon 14 dating has shown a relatively short time span for the Late Pleistocene, and it is no longer possible to think of the correlation of cave deposits on a geological time scale. A thousand years or less is of some importance. It is possible and indeed probable that faunas and cave sediments may have been at the same point of time quite different in caves on the shore of the Mediterranean from, say, inland caves at 1,000 or 2,000 feet above sea level, such as those of the Judean Desert.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 27 , December 1961 , pp. 144 - 154
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1961

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