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David Lubell (ed.), Holocene Prehistory in the Telidjene Basin, Eastern Algeria: Capsian Occupations at Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia

Archaeopress, Oxford, 2016, 225 pp., ISBN 978178491-373-1

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Mutri, G. David Lubell (ed.), Holocene Prehistory in the Telidjene Basin, Eastern Algeria: Capsian Occupations at Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia. Afr Archaeol Rev 34, 151–154 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-017-9244-4

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