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Transformations of Upper Palaeolithic implements in the Dabba industry from Haua Fteah (Libya)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Hiscock
Peter Hiscock*
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Northern Territory University, Casuarina NT 0909, Australia. E-mail: P_HISCOCK@BANKS.NTU.EDU.AU
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Different models of stone-working technology in the Upper Palaeolithic are tested by examining an assemblage from Haua Fteah, on the Libyan coast of north Africa. Evidence that some scrapers have been reworked into burins, while some burins were modified to form scrapers, show how this typically Upper Palaeolithic industry contains morphological transformations between types. This evidence is consistent with a technological continuity from the Middle Palaeolithic.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 657 - 664
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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