Haua Fteah

American  

[hou-uh fuh-tee-uh] / ˌhaʊ ə fəˈti ə /

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.

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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