TRANSFORMATIONS OF UPPER PALEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS IN THE DABBA INDUSTRYFROM HAUA-FTEAH (LIBYA)

Different models of stone-working technology in the Upper Palaeolithic are tested by examining an assemblage from Haua Fteah, on the Libyan coast of north Africa. Evidence that some scrapers have been reworked into burins, while some burins were modified to form scrapers, show ho w this typically Upper Palaeolithic industry contains morphological tr ansformations between types. This evidence is consistent with a techno logical continuity from the Middle Palaeolithic.