Kharga Oasis in Prehistory

abraded ACHEULIAN Mound-spring KO10 Acheulio-Levalloisian Aqaba Armant artefacts Aterian Badarian Bedouin Bedouin Microlithic beds bifaced breccia Bulaq Pass bulbar butt Caton-Thompson and Gardner chert clay coarsely faceted cobbles cortex Cretaceous cross-section Dakhla deposits Depression desert Eastern Scarp edge Egyptian Eocene epi-Levalloisian evidence faceted platform Faiyum finely faceted flake scars flake-blade flakes floor forms Ghuata hand-axes hearth-mounds hearths Huzayyin implements Kharga Oasis Khargan industry KO6E KO8A length Levallois Levalloiso-Khargan Libyan Plateau limestone Locus Lower Levalloisian marginal retouch Matana Pass Metres Microlithic nibble Nile Valley Oases oval Palaeolithic patina Peasant Neolithic plain Plateau Tufa Platform average Pleistocene Predynastic Refûf Pass sand sandrock sandstone Scale Scarp scrapers scree Sebilian sherds silt situ Solution Pan specimens spring stratigraphy striking platform surface tabular chert thick thin tortoise-core transverse triangular typological Umm-ed-Dabadib UPPER ACHEULIAN Mound-spring Upper Levalloisian Upper Sheet Gravels ventral Wadi Tufa