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Understanding the Late Palaeolithic tools with lustrous edges from the Lower Nile Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Helle Juel Jensen ,
Romuald Schild ,
Fred Wendorf  and
Angela E. Close
Helle Juel Jensen
Affiliation:
Institut for forhistorisk arkaeologi ved Aarhus Universitet, Moesgård, DK-8270 Højbjerg, Denmark
Romuald Schild
Affiliation:
Institute of the History of Material Culture, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul Swierczewskiego 105, 00-140 Warsaw, Poland
Fred Wendorf
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA
Angela E. Close
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA
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Extract

A new examination of the polish on Late Palaeolithic tools from the Nile identifies some kind of siliceous sheen, but shows no ‘sickle gloss’. This is consistent with the demonstration that cereals were not in precociously early cultivation in Egypt.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 246 , March 1991 , pp. 122 - 128
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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