Although Scandinavian flint is one of the most important materials used for prehistoric stone tool production in Northern and Central Europe, a conclusive method for securely differentiating between flint sources, geologically bound to northern European chalk formations, has never been achieved. The main problems with traditional approaches…[Read more]

Presentation of the architecture and sculpture of a peculiar double medieval church in rural Crete, dating from the 12th to the 16th c.

The Country Where My Heart Is explores the archaeology of the period during which modern nationalism developed. While much of the previous research has focused on how governments and other institutions manipulate the archaeology of the distant past for ideological reasons, the contributors to this volume articulate what material artifacts of the…[Read more]

During the Nubia Salvage Campaign and the subsequent expeditions from the 1960’s to the
1980’s, numerous sites attributed to the Late Palaeolithic (~25–15 ka) were found in the Nile
Valley, particularly in Nubia and Upper Egypt. This region is one of the few to have allowed
human occupations during the dry Marine Isotope Stage 2 and is there…[Read more]

At the end of the Pleistocene (25,000-15,000 BP), there is a shift to more arid conditions in the Negev and the Sinai corresponding to the Last Glacial Maximum. For the Nile Valley and the Levant, the lowering of the Mediterranean sea level, the expansion of the Sahara and the desiccation of some major eastern African lakes had important…[Read more]