Just published: The MedAfriCarbon radiocarbon database and web application. Archaeological dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600-700 BC

Just published: The MedAfriCarbon radiocarbon database and web application. Archaeological dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600-700 BC

1587 radiocarbon dates, 368 sites, 5 amazing countries, ca. 2000 articles reviewed, and 385 selected. These are only some of the numbers linked to MedAfriCarbon, the radiocarbon database and its accompanying web application that are outcomes of the Leverhulme-funded, Cambridge-based MedAfrica project - Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC.

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MedAfrica investigates the beginning of agriculture in the Nile Delta

MedAfrica investigates the beginning of agriculture in the Nile Delta

After the successful season in Morocco, Giulio flew to the opposite edge of Mediterranean Africa to join the fieldwork of the Imbaba Governorate Prehistoric Survey in the site of Merimde Beni Salama, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the whole North Africa and one of the earliest village settlements which arose along the Nile Valley, c. almost 7000 years ago.

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MedAfrica at the Science of Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies Conference

MedAfrica at the Science of Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies Conference

From 4 to 6 November 2017 Giulio took part in the SAEMT (Science of Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies) Conference, organised in Cairo by the Ministry of Egyptian Antiquities and a number of international archaeological institutes and universities (ARCE, AUC, DAIK, EES, IFAO).

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