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Dr
Vicky
Winton
Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting Centre
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
Perth
WA 6009
Australia
Tel: +618 6488 3846
Fax: +618 6488 1023
In December 2004, an interdisciplinary, international, archaeological team conducted fieldwork in the Mékrou Valley of southwest Niger (12°15N, 2°22E). Dr Anne Haour (then University of Oxford, UK), Dr Oumarou Idé (IRSH, Université de Abdou Moumouni, Niger) and Dr Vicky Winton (then University of Oxford, UK) worked together with dating specialist, Helen Rendell (of Loughborough University, UK) to investigate the Stone Age (Early, Middle and Late) and Historical occupation of the Mékrou Valley. Publications and conference presentations arising from this work include Winton and Haour (2005), Rendell et al. (2005), Winton and Idé (2006) and Haour et al. (in prep.). This ADS archive, comprising images, a spreadsheet of artefacts collected and this introduction, relates only to the 2004 investigations of the Mékrou Valley Stone Age occupation, with particular emphasis on the Early and Middle Stone Age evidence.