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A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan

Grzegorz Michalec1 Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PolandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5794-5334View further author information
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Eric Andrieux2 Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, United KingdomORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-0543View further author information
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Ju Yong Kim3 Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Daejeon, Republic of KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4782-8262View further author information
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Young Kwan Sohn4 Department of Geology and Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University (GNU), Jinju, Republic of KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1811-0545View further author information
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Marzena Cendrowska5 Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-555XView further author information
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Maciej Ehlert6 Archeolodzy.org Foundation, Wrocław, PolandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9690-6971View further author information
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Simon J. Armitage5 Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;7 Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United KingdomORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-9188View further author information
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Piotr Moska8 Institute of Physics, Division of Geochronology and Isotope Research of the Environmental, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, PolandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6114-9595View further author information
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Marcin Szmit9 Gdańsk Archaeological Museum, Gdańsk, PolandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2331-1245View further author information
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Ahmed Nassr10 Department of Tourism and Archaeology, College of Arts, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia;11 Department of Archaeology, University of Al Neelain, Khartoum, SudanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2553-1783View further author information
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Mirosław Masojć1 Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PolandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Received 20 Jan 2024, Accepted 03 Jun 2024, Published online: 27 Jun 2024

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