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Cotsen Scholars publish new articles on Fayum, Egypt

by eric — last modified March 30, 2010 11:59 AM

Two new articles on the research done by Willeke Wendrich and Hans Barnard at the Fayum Oasis in Egypt have been published in scientific journals.

The first article, in the current issue of Antiquity, "Identifying low-level food producers: detecting mobility from lithics" can be read here.

The second article, from the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, "Dating stratiﬁed settlement sites at Kom K and Kom W: Fifth millennium BCE radiocarbon ages for the Fayum Neolithic," is available here.

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