caa a22 4500 605448701 CHVBK 20210128100138.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10437-015-9193-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10437-015-9193-8 The Stone Age in Northwestern Libya: Observations Along a Pipeline [Elektronische Daten] [Fabio Parenti, Davide Mengoli, Luca Natali] More than 500km, from the Mediterranean coast to the Hammada al-Hamra, were surveyed in 2002-‘03 along the AGIP-Gas pipeline. Several morphological units were crossed: the Jefara, the Jebel Gharbi and the Hammada al-Hamra. This paper reports the location of more than 60 surface sites, with special attention to Lower and Middle Stone Age assemblages, by far the most represented periods. More than 6,500 lithic artifacts have been collected spanning from Mode 1 to the Late Stone Age. The survey was carried out on foot, along a narrow band of around 50m width for 80% of the pipeline, representing an extraordinary sample from the coast to the northern desert and, more extensively, in the Wafa area on the Hammada plateau, where stone quarries, fireplaces and important lithic scatters were documented. On the whole, the assemblages, compared with the main Stone Age sites of Northern Africa, seem older in the very southern sector, well into the Hammada, whereas sites on the Jebel cliff and immediately south are dominated by Middle and Late Stone Age cultural traits. The survey proved to be both a good tool for planning development projects and an important occasion for the study of a relevant region of Northern African prehistory. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Stone Age nationallicence Pleistocene nationallicence Northern Sahara nationallicence Pipeline nationallicence Surface collection nationallicence Palaeoenvironment nationallicence Parenti Fabio Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Via Aldrovandi 18, 00197, Rome, Italy aut Mengoli Davide Soc. Lares, San Giovanni in Persiceto, BO, Italy aut Natali Luca Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Via Aldrovandi 18, 00197, Rome, Italy aut African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/3(2015-09-01), 413-441 0263-0338 32:3<413 2015 32 10437 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9193-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9193-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Parenti Fabio Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Via Aldrovandi 18, 00197, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mengoli Davide Soc. Lares, San Giovanni in Persiceto, BO, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Natali Luca Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Via Aldrovandi 18, 00197, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/3(2015-09-01), 413-441 0263-0338 32:3<413 2015 32 10437