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Andrew's and Arkel's important discoveries of Chellean-type and Acheulean-type artefacts in the 5 m. ironstone gravels of the Khor Abu Anga, and elsewhere near the confluence of the Blue and White Niles1, is consistent with results obtained in the Lake Plateau Basin of the Nile farther south, where it is plain that erosion levels were not very different from those of to-day, first in “pre-Chellean” and, later, in “Chelleo-Acheulean” times. There is, moreover, striking evidence of “post-Acheulean” sedimentation to higher levels and the consequent deep burial of “Chelleo-Acheulean” and afterwards of “late Acheulean” land surfaces (flats) which had been brought into existence by temporary but relatively long-sustained low levels of Lake Victoria (Victoria Nyanza), and of other open waters.
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WAYLAND, E. A Middle Pleistocene Discovery in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Nature 151, 334 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151334a0
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