Pierre Vermeersch
Geographer, specialized in Stone Age cultures Europe and North Africa (Egypt)Name:VERMEERSCH, Pierre Marie JosephAdress:Brouwersstraat 1 bus 21, 3000 Leuven. 32476542258 Prehistorische Archeologie, Geo-Instituut, Celestijnenelaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.Birthday and place: March 31, 1938, Gent, Belgium.Nationality:Belgian.Education:B.A. (Kandidaat) in geography, K.U.Leuven, 1957
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After 40 ka BP population density became restricted. A very significant increase of population, fishers along intermittent lakes, is correlated with the dry phases of Greenland Stadial 2 (22.9-14.7 ka CalBP). During Greenland Interstadial 1 population density became very reduced and nearly no material remains are found from the following 4000 years.
The available chronometric dated material remains of humans for the time period of 40 to 10 ka CalBP from four regions, the Maghreb, Libya, Egypt and the Southern Levant, are analysed by a CalPal approach. It appears that the occupation of those regions through time was diversified and probably related to climatic proxies. It appears that contacts with Sub-Saharan Africa were quite reduced, suggesting that culturally the humans from the Lower Nile Valley and the rest of Northern Africa have more in common with the Levantine and European Upper Palaeolithic than with the African Later Stone Age, confirming a “Back to Africa”.