Claudio Vita‐finzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Vita‐finzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Vita‐finzi |
| SIGNATURE | FINZI C V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 455 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Richard William Hey
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Geography as a shared project
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the ceremony of 2012. With comments by the BBC's Alastair Fothergill, and Professors Charles Withers, Gillian Rose, Stuart Lane and Claudio Vita-Finzi, the speeches encompass historical geography, insp…
Letter from Libya
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Timothy Leetham Taylor, FSA
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Coastlines, Submerged Landscapes, and Human Evolution
We examine some long-standing assumptions about the early use of coastlines and marine resources and their contribution to the pattern of early human dispersal, and focus on the southern Red Sea Basin and the proposed southern corridor of movement between Africa and Arabia across the Bab al-Mandab Straits. We reconstruct relative sea levels in light of isostatic and tectonic effects, and evaluate their paleogeographical impact on the distribution…
Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape
Revised papers from a symposium entitled The impact of ancient man on the landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Near East held in Groningen, the Netherlands, March 1989
To Interpret the Earth
First-order 14C dating of marine molluscs in archaeology
A new technique of radiocarbon dating is presented, offering at modest expense the means to a determination that is good to the 'first order' of magnitude
Landscape and Culture
Radiocarbon Dating
Archeology
Research Guide to the Arid Lands of the World
Volcanic Hazards
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
Research Contributions to the Physical Geography of Israel
Wandering Continents and Spreading Sea Floors on an Expanding Earth
The conference on the Implications of Continent al Drift to the Earth Sciences at Newcastle in 1972 was drawing to a close. For a week, participants had discussed new hypotheses on continent al drift, rift valleys, sea-floor spreading, plate tectonics, reversals of geomagnetic polarity and related topics, and now they were listening to the final paper, by Dr R. S. Dietz, on Continents adrift: new orthodoxy or persuasive joker. Ably illustrated by…
Heartland of Cities
Surface Finds from Iranian Makran
Prehistory of the Nile Valley
Archaeological Dating of Geological Deposits in Jordan
Quaternary Deposits in the Iranian Makran
Recent Earth History
Palaeolithic finds from Cyprus
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The Musandam Expedition 1971-72 Scientific Results
Late Quaternary Subsidence
Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape
Revised papers from a symposium entitled The impact of ancient man on the landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Near East held in Groningen, the Netherlands, March 1989
Prehistoric Economy in the Mount Carmel Area of Palestine
This study is concerned with the exploitation of resources by human groups in the Carmel area over a period of about 50,000 years. To this end an attempt is made to evaluate the changing economic potential of the ‘catchments’ of individual sites, for this enables us to make a comparative analysis of hunting-gathering and agricultural economies. Although the study of prehistoric sites is now usually complemented by some treatment of their setting,…
Landscape and Culture
Desert and River in Nubia
Coastlines, Submerged Landscapes, and Human Evolution
We examine some long-standing assumptions about the early use of coastlines and marine resources and their contribution to the pattern of early human dispersal, and focus on the southern Red Sea Basin and the proposed southern corridor of movement between Africa and Arabia across the Bab al-Mandab Straits. We reconstruct relative sea levels in light of isostatic and tectonic effects, and evaluate their paleogeographical impact on the distribution…
Radiocarbon Dating
Volcanic Hazards
The Climate, Environment and Industries of Stone Age Greece
In the second article of this series, brief mention was made of a cave at Kastritsa, near Lake Ioannina, whose talus had yielded an industry reminiscent of the last phase at the shelter of Asprochaliko. The evidence for an increase in the size of Lake Ioannina during the Last Glaciation was also outlined. The purpose of this paper is to consider the concomitant environmental changes in relation to the evidence for human occupation. Lake Ioannina …
Mediterranean Studies
The Mediterranean Valleys
The Climate, Environment and Industries of Stone Age Greece
In 1965 the investigations described in the first paper of the series were resumed in Epirus. The excavation of the rock shelter of Asprochaliko was continued, and further geological observations made it possible to establish a continental sequence extending from the Last Interglacial to the present day. The geological succession and its associated artifacts was worked out in the Louros valley (fig. 1) and confirmed in other parts of Epirus. It c…
Kokkinopilos
Observations on the Late Quaternary of Jordan
After the deposition of the Lisan Series and the disappearance of the great Pleistocene Jordan lake, erosion in the valleys draining into the Jordan Rift Valley was followed by a phase of tufa formation by the major springs. The tufas were then eroded; and the deposition of poorly-sorted gravel and soil filled the valleys and formed fans at their mouths.Stream downcutting into these deposits resulted in a terrace. A briefer period of aggradation,…
Surface Finds from Iranian Makran
The Hasa Formation
Palaeolithic finds from Cyprus
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Heartland of Cities
Late Quaternary Continental Deposits of Central and Western Turkey
Quaternary Deposits in the Iranian Makran
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
Prehistory of the Nile Valley
The Rharbian Formation of Morocco
What has long been accepted as the standard account of the continental Quaternary succession of Morocco (Choubert et al. 1956) lists five depositional 'cycles' followed by a 'half-cycle', that of the Rharbian. The present article began as a report on a new radiocarbon date for the Rharbian deposits, but a mention of wider issues was prompted by the publication of a review of the Moroccan Quaternary (Beaudet et al. I967) which shows that the statu…
Late Quaternary Alluvial Chronology of Northern Algeria
In northern Algeria two phases of stream aggradation followed the marine transgression of the Last Interglacial. They are now represented by terraces. The first, which was locally preceded by the deposition of tufa by springs, coincided with the marine regression of the Last Glaciation. It embraces Anderson's Mazouna stage and the coastal 'couches rouges ateriennes' of French authors. The second, Anderson's Chelif stage, is post-Roman. Although t…
Roman Dams in Tripolitania
There are many Roman dams in the Tripolitanian province of Libya; only a few of them have received the attention they deserve. This article attempts to explain the variety of purposes served by some of the numerous barrages to be found in a small part of northern Tripolitania.The earliest thorough study of ancient hydraulic works in north Africa was made by La Blanchère in the Enfida of Tunisia. More ambitious surveys have been organized by Gsell…
First-order 14C dating of marine molluscs in archaeology
A new technique of radiocarbon dating is presented, offering at modest expense the means to a determination that is good to the 'first order' of magnitude
Ancient Cultivation in the Negev
A Pluvial Age in the Puna de Atacama
The puna de atacama, which Bowman has described admirably,1 is an area of basins, mountain knots and pied ont alluvial deposits at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, lying partly in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, roughly between latitudes 260 and 180 S. The eastern marches of the Chilean Atacama Desert consist of a number of lofty depressions which are physiographically more akin to the Puna than to the low-lying coastal desert. Few geological fea…
Roman Dams in Tripolitania
There are many Roman dams in the Tripolitanian province of Libya; only a few of them have received the attention they deserve. This article attempts to explain the variety of purposes served by some of the numerous barrages to be found in a small part of northern Tripolitania.The earliest thorough study of ancient hydraulic works in north Africa was made by La Blanchère in the Enfida of Tunisia. More ambitious surveys have been organized by Gsell…
Samuel Butler and Italy
I have chosen Italy as my second country, and would dedicate this book to her as a thank-offering for the happiness she afforded me. Samuel Butler, Introduction to Alps and Sanctuaries. Il nostro inglese ... ama grandemente I'l talia A. G. Patti, in Il Lambruschini, Trapani (July, 1892). It may be surmised that he cared more for Italy and for Handel than he did for his literary reputation, his work on evolution, his controversy with Darwin, or hi…
Nouveaux Villages Algerois
Observations on the Late Quaternary of Jordan
After the deposition of the Lisan Series and the disappearance of the great Pleistocene Jordan lake, erosion in the valleys draining into the Jordan Rift Valley was followed by a phase of tufa formation by the major springs. The tufas were then eroded; and the deposition of poorly-sorted gravel and soil filled the valleys and formed fans at their mouths.Stream downcutting into these deposits resulted in a terrace. A briefer period of aggradation,…
Vanishing Trails of Atacama
Seven Saharan Sites
The Climate, Environment and Industries of Stone Age Greece
In 1965 the investigations described in the first paper of the series were resumed in Epirus. The excavation of the rock shelter of Asprochaliko was continued, and further geological observations made it possible to establish a continental sequence extending from the Last Interglacial to the present day. The geological succession and its associated artifacts was worked out in the Louros valley (fig. 1) and confirmed in other parts of Epirus. It c…
Environment and Archeology
The New Elysian Fields
The Hasa Formation
Arid Lands
Late Quaternary Alluvial Chronology of Northern Algeria
In northern Algeria two phases of stream aggradation followed the marine transgression of the Last Interglacial. They are now represented by terraces. The first, which was locally preceded by the deposition of tufa by springs, coincided with the marine regression of the Last Glaciation. It embraces Anderson's Mazouna stage and the coastal 'couches rouges ateriennes' of French authors. The second, Anderson's Chelif stage, is post-Roman. Although t…
The Climate, Environment and Industries of Stone Age Greece
In the second article of this series, brief mention was made of a cave at Kastritsa, near Lake Ioannina, whose talus had yielded an industry reminiscent of the last phase at the shelter of Asprochaliko. The evidence for an increase in the size of Lake Ioannina during the Last Glaciation was also outlined. The purpose of this paper is to consider the concomitant environmental changes in relation to the evidence for human occupation. Lake Ioannina …
Kokkinopilos
Water, Weather and Prehistory
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The Rharbian Formation of Morocco
What has long been accepted as the standard account of the continental Quaternary succession of Morocco (Choubert et al. 1956) lists five depositional 'cycles' followed by a 'half-cycle', that of the Rharbian. The present article began as a report on a new radiocarbon date for the Rharbian deposits, but a mention of wider issues was prompted by the publication of a review of the Moroccan Quaternary (Beaudet et al. I967) which shows that the statu…
Desert and River in Nubia
Late Quaternary Continental Deposits of Central and Western Turkey
Prehistoric Economy in the Mount Carmel Area of Palestine
This study is concerned with the exploitation of resources by human groups in the Carmel area over a period of about 50,000 years. To this end an attempt is made to evaluate the changing economic potential of the ‘catchments’ of individual sites, for this enables us to make a comparative analysis of hunting-gathering and agricultural economies. Although the study of prehistoric sites is now usually complemented by some treatment of their setting,…
Mediterranean Studies
A New Deal in Geology, Geography and Related Sciences
The Mediterranean Valleys
The Mediterranean Valleys
Geography (36 works) · Geology (27 works) · Geology (27 works) · Archaeology (26 works) · History (18 works) · Paleontology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Paleontology (14 works) · History (12 works) · Physical geography (10 works)