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Living on the edge: Neolithic herders in the eastern Sahara

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Angela E. Close
Angela E. Close*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA
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Abstract

The Eastern Sahara – an arid waste since Neolithic times – is one of the very few regions where one can find, by simple surface survey, little clusters of stone artefacts lying just where they fell 5000 and more years ago. They offer rather direct and specific information about how stone was moved, used and left behind by mobile pastoralists in a marginal environment.

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 242 , March 1990 , pp. 79 - 96
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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