A Look Inside: The Making of the Middle Sea [Click Images to Enlarge]
The rock of Gibraltar as it looks today and as it might have appeared during phases of lower sea level to the Neanderthals occupying large caverns along its base. Courtesy: Gibraltar Museum 2006.
Experimental travel in a hypothetical reed boat. Photograph by Catherine Perles. Courtesy: Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Traditions.
The loose collection of roundhouses constituting the early Cypriot village of Shillourokambos, set in this reconstruction within a savannah-like landscape with semi-free-ranging yet carefully managed herds. Courtesy: Simple Past/ Marc Azéma.
A reconstruction of the Iceman on the move, including cold-weather grass cape, knapsack, bow and other equipment. Courtesy: Drazen Tomic (after Tracy Wellman). Early rock engraving of cattle being milked at Tiksatin, Libyan Sahara. Courtesy: David Mattingly An 18th-century AD engraving, easily recognizable as a record of an early 1st- millennium BC Sardinian bronze figurine, from the Caylus collection. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
