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Contrary to expectation, the number and importance of the archaeological undertakings carried on in Palestine and Syria did not decrease during the past year. This happy fact is due to various causes, which have operated so as to neutralize the effect of the world depression. Among them is undoubtedly the steadily growing interest in archaeology throughout the world, as well as the increasing difficulty of excavation in Egypt and Mesopotamia, where the excavator must cope with more and more stringent ordinances in regard to antiquities coupled with xenophobia and corrupt bureaucracy. PALESTINE: EXCAVATIONS ON PREHISTORIC SITES Miss Dorothy Garrod has continued the work in Wad el-Mugharah, south of Carmel near 'Athlit, which she began in 1929. After the close of her autumn campaign of 193?2 (A.J.A., 1933, 161) she worked in the Mugharet et-Tabmin during the period from the first of April to the middle of July, 1933. This cave has yielded the most complete Mousterian stratification so far discovered outside of Europe; the section excavated to bed-rock exhibits the following phases: Upper Mousterian; Middle Mousterian; Lower Mousterian; Upper Acheulean; true Acheulean; Tayacian. The f

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Author

W. F. Albright

Published

1934

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)