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The Pierres de Ben Barour, also known as trapping or tethering stones (TS), are stone artefacts
with notches or grooves usually interpreted as hunting devices on the basis of rock art
engravings. Though their presence is a peculiar feature of desert landscapes from the
Sahara to the Arabian Peninsula, we know little about their age, context and function. Here
we present a new approach to the study of these artefacts based on a large dataset (837
items) recorded in the Messak plateau (SW Libya). A statistically-based geoarchaeological

Starting from its title, this volume highlights the importance of environmental
changes and emphasizes the central contribution to archaeology in the research carried
out in the oasis of Farafra, in the Egyptian Western Desert, under the coordination of
Barbara Barich and Fekri Hassan between 1990 and 2005. The book consists of 7 parts
and is divided into 19 chapters, together with an introduction and a concluding section,
for a total of about 500 pages.

Volume monografico sullo scavo dei livelli del Tardo Calcolitico 3-4 (3800-3400 a.C.) presso il sito di Arslantepe. Scavo, stratigrafia, architettura, rituali funerari, materiale amministrativo, economia primaria, classificazione e tipologia ceramica, analisi archeometriche della ceramica e dei materiali costruttivi, materiali in situ e interpretazione dell'uso degli spazi.
Nel volume vi sono contributi di: Corrado Alvaro, Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Susanna Cereda, Yilmaz Selim Erdal, Pamela Fragnoli, Marcella Frangipane, Giovanna Liberotti, Laura Sadori, Cristiano Vignola.

This work presents the preliminary results of the archaeological research in southern Tunisia. The program, though strongly hindered by the serious internal situation and dramatically shaken by the attacks sf 2015, allowed an initial assessment of the archaeological potential of the