Haua Fteah

[ hou-uh fuh-tee-uh ]

noun

1. a cave site in Cyrenaica that has produced archaeological evidence of the longest sequence of human habitation in northern Africa, extending to about 80,000 years b.p.

Example Sentences

Simon McBurney was born in 1957, in Cambridge, England, where his father, Charles McBurney, an American archeologist, was a professor of quaternary history; his discoveries included the Haua Fteah caves, in Libya, which are thought to have sheltered humans for twenty thousand years.

From The New Yorker