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Jebel Moya revisited: a settlement of the 5th millennium BC in the middle Nile Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Isabella Caneva
Isabella Caneva*
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Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell'Antichità, Via Palestro 63, 00185 Rome, Italy
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A new look at the old collections from Jebel Moya, the site in the southern Sudan excavated by the Wellcome expedition early in the century, sets Jebel Moya in the light of modern understanding of the Nile and Sahara sequences.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 262 - 268
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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