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South-eastern Mediterranean peoples between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago / Elena A. A. Garcea

This volume synthesises research on Upper Pleistocene archaeology across North Africa and the Near East. It examines the migration of modern humans and the cultural transitions from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic within the south-eastern Mediterranean basin.

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