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First Report of the Cambridge Archaeological Expedition to Cyrenaica (1947)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

C. B. M. McBurney ,
R. W. Hey  and
W. Watson
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The choice of the Gebel Akhdar region of Cyrenaica for study arose partly from its geographical position midway between the Atlas and the Levant. At the same time the topography, with a range of considerable hills close to the coast, must at all times have provided a rainfall very appreciably superior to that of the surrounding low-lying territories. The area is thus a strategic one in which to examine the problems of the relationship between these two main areas of settlement in the Southern Mediterranean. The topography also affords exceptional opportunities for the preservation of a detailed geological record of changes in the relations of land and sea during Pleistocene and Recent times.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 14 , 1948 , pp. 33 - 45
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1948

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Footnotes

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A further season's work is planned during the summer of 1948, and the conclusions here presented are therefore of an interim nature.

References

page 34 note 1 See: Gregory, J. W., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. LXVII, 1911, pp. 592–3Google Scholar; Desio, A., Miss. Scient. della R. Acc. d'Ital. a Cufra, Vol. I, 1935 Google Scholar; Blanc, A. C., Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., Vol. LV, 1936, pp. 279–82Google Scholar; Marchetti, M., Idrologia Cirenaica, 1938, pp. 205–27Google Scholar; etc.

page 36 note 1 Neither shore-line has yet been dated geologically or archaeologically, and it may be that the higher is really Pliocene.

page 37 note 1 The existence of these submerged dunes is noted by Desio, A. (Miss. Scient. della R. Acc. d'Ital. a Cufra, Vol. II, 1939, pp. 40–6 and elsewhere)Google Scholar. His conclusions regarding differential movements of the land (op. cit., pp. 52–4) seem, however, to be invalidated for some areas by the constant level of the 5m. shore-line.

page 37 note 2 A fuller account is being published elsewhere.

page 38 note 1 P.P.S. XIII (1947), 80 Google Scholar.

page 41 note 1 Specimens from the same deposit have been identified by G. Tongiorgi as Laurus canariensis Webb, a species now confined to Madeira and the Canary Islands. ( N. Giorn. Bot. It., N.S., Vol. XLII, 1935, pp. 665–6Google Scholar).

page 44 note 1 See more detailed account in L'Anthropologie (forthcoming).