IDNO

LS.75405.MCBUR

Description

Three local men operating bucket and pulley systems to remove soil from a trench, while a fourth and fifth man operates a riddle at the top of the trench, during McBurney excavations at Haua Fteah in the 1950s. [JD 11/01/2026]

Place

N Africa; Libya; Cyrenaica; Haua Fteah

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

1950s

Collection Name

McBurney Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.75404.MCBUR to LS.75450.MCBUR were found inside the wooden slide box now numbered C348/.
The list describing the individual slide 50 is pasted to the inside lid of box C348/:
"Map Lower Palace"
There is no relation between this list and the slide found in slot 50 of box C348/.

Publication: Same image published in 'The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) — Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6' by Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li, Lucy Farr, Evan Hill, Chris Hunt, Sacha Jones, Ryan Rabett, Tim Reynolds, Richard G. Roberts, David Simpson, Graeme Barker. In Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 105, April 2017, Pages 69-88, and captioned: "c. the 1950s McBurney excavations." [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248417300283#fig1, JD 11/01/2026]