Author: Davies, Oliver
Title: The Quaternary in the Coastlands of Guinea.
Description: Glasgow: Jackson, Son and Company, 1964. First edition. Pp. xv, 276; 8 full page black-and-white photo-plates, 120 text-figures (line-drawings of artifacts and maps). Publisher's original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, sm 4to. The work covers the archaeology of this coastal West African country. The volume is divided into nine chapters - 1: The Chronological Frame; 2: Pluvial Sequence in Africa; 3: Raised Beaches; 4: West African River-Terraces; 5: Soil-Profiles and Lateralization; 6: Tentative Scheme of Absolute Chronology; 7: Paleolithic Industries; 8: The Mesolithic; and 9: The Neolithic. Signature of former owner, archaeologist Richard Osborne, on the front endpaper. A fine (as new) copy..

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