The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2011: Late-Holocene environments and human activity from a cave fill in Cyrenaica, Libya

Chris Hunt; Ian Brooks; John Meneely; David Brown; A. Buzaian; Graeme Barker

The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2011: Late-Holocene environments and human activity from a cave fill in Cyrenaica, Libya

Chris Hunt, Ian Brooks, John Meneely, David Brown, A. Buzaian, Graeme Barker

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Abstract

Little is known about late Holocene environmental change in Cyrenaica. The late Holocene sequence in the Haua Fteah, the key regional site, is highly discontinuous and characterised by stable-burning deposits. The geoarchaeology of the late-Holocene cave fill of a small cave, CP1565, located close to the Haua Fteah, is described. The well-stratified sequence, dating from the fourth century AD to the present day, provides a glimpse of life at the bottom of the settlement hierarchy and of changing environments over the last 1600 years, with degraded vegetation and aridity in the ‘Little Ice Age’.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77
Number of pages	10
Journal	Libyan Studies
Volume	42
Publication status	Published - Jan 2011

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