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THE most recent book on African prehistory by Mile. H. Alimen1 continues to adopt the theory of three pleistocene pluvials and two interpluvials. Her field-work having been mainly in the Sahara, this must be taken as her considered interpretation of phenomena in this part of Africa.
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“Préhistoire de l'Afrique” (see especially, pp. 173, 234).
“Olduvai Gorge”; “Study of Pleistocene Climatic Changes in North-East Angola”.
For example, Problèmes d'Afrique centrale, 18, 9 (1952).
C.R Second Panafrican Congress on Prehistory, 293.
ibid., p. 259; Notes africaines, p. 65 (1954); and several papers not yet published.
South African J. Sci., 277 (1955).
van Woerkom, in Shapley, “Climatic Change”, 147.
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DAVIES, O. African Pleistocene Pluvials and European Glaciations. Nature 178, 757–758 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178757b0
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