Research Catalog

Title

Environmental change and human culture in the Nile Basin and northern Africa until the second millennium B.C. / edited by Lech Krzyżaniak, Michał Kobusiewicz, and John Alexander.

Publication

Poznań : Poznań Archaeological Museum, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Alexander, John, 1922-
• Alexander, John, 1922-2010.
• Kobusiewicz, Michał.
• Krzyżaniak, Lech.
• Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu.

Description

494 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in African archaeology, 0866-9244 ; v. 4

Uniform Title

Studies in African archaeology (Poznań, Poland) v. 4.

Subject

• Africa, North > Antiquities > Congresses
• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Africa, North > Congresses
• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Nile River Watershed > Congresses
• Nile River Watershed > Antiquities > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Africa, North > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Nile River Watershed > Congresses

Note

• English, with one paper in French.
• "Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Archaeological Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań Branch, and the Poznań Archaeological Museum for the International Commission of the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa, Dymaczewo near Poznań, 5-10 September, 1988"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The UNESCO Libyan valleys survey / Graeme Barker -- Plant macrofossils from the archaeological sites of Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya / Krystyna Wasylikowa -- Evalutation of radiocarbon dates of organic samples from Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya / Mieczyslaw F. Pazdur -- The Aterian of the Central Sahara / J. Desmond Clark -- Terminal Paleolithic industries of the Sahara / Andrew B. Smith -- New approaches to Saharan rock art of the Bovidian Period / Andrew B. Smith -- Le néolithique récent dans le sud-ouest du Sahara / Robert Vernet -- Middle Paleolithic occupations at Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Western Desert of Egypt / Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Angela E. Close -- BT-14, a stratified Middle Paleolithic site at Bir-Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt / Angela E. Close -- The faunal spectrum of the Middle Paleolithic in Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt / Achilles Gautier -- Levallois variability and the Middle Paleolithic of the Lower Nile Valley and the Eastern Sahara / Philip van Peer -- Environmental and climatic change in the northern part of the Eastern Desert during Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic times / Andreas Dittmann -- Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara / Katharina Neumann -- Culture and environment between the Sahara and the Nile in the Early and Mid-Holocene / Barbara E. Barisch -- Investigations into the archaeology of the Sitra-Hatiyet, Northwestern Egypt / Erwin Cziesla
• Cultural adaptations in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt in the Early to Mid-Holocene / Mary M.A. McDonald -- Early Holocene basinal sediments of the Dakhleh Oasis region, Egypt / Ian A. Brookes -- Sahel in Egypt / Rudolph Kuper -- Neolithic sediment patterns in the Gebel Kamil area, Southwestern Egypt / Joachim Hahn -- An archaeological survey of the Selima Sandsheet, Sudan / Werner Schuck -- The Gilf Kebir and Lower Wadi Howar / Stefan Kröpelin -- The natural conditions for Pre- and Early Dynastic settlement in the Western Nile Delta around Tell el-Fara'in, Buto / Jürgen Wunderlich -- Comments to the lithic industry of Buto-Maadi culture in Lower Egypt / Klaus Schmidt -- Settlement patterns in the Northeastern Nile Delta during the fourth-second millenia B.C. / Edwin C.M. van den Brink -- The evolution of the Eastern Nile Delta as a factor in the development of human culture / Huib E. de Wit -- New data on the late prehistoric settlement at Minshat Abu Omar, Eastern Nile Delta / Lech Krzyżaniak -- Holocene changes in the Fayum / Janusz K. Kozłowski and Bolesław Ginter -- Paleolithic chert quarrying and mining in Egypt / Pierre M. Vermeersch and Etienne Paulissen -- Plant remains from the Neolithic site at Armant / Maria Lityńska
• Mineralogy of the Nile Valley sediments as an indicator of changes in climate / Maciej Pawlikowski -- Problems of assessing environmental impact on the Predynastic settlements of Hierkonpolis / Michael A. Hoffman and James O. Mills -- Leiterband sites in the Wadi Howar, North Sudan / Birgit Keding -- Holocene evolution of the climate and environment, and stone "city" ruins at Northern Darfur, Sudan / Henri J. Dumont and Asim I. el Moghraby -- Paleoenvironment and economy at Kerma, Northern Sudan, during the third millenium B.C. / Louis Chaix and Annie Grant -- Pre-pastoral Middle Nile / Isabella Caneva -- Animal exploitation between the fifth and the sixth Cataract ca. 8,500-7000 B.P. / Joris Peters -- Environmental change and the development of nomadism in the East-Central Sudan / Karim Sadr -- Climatic and cultural changes in the Southern Atbai, Sudan, from the fifth through the third millenium, B.C. / Anthony E. Marks -- The Gash Group of the Eastern Sudan / Rodolfo Fattovich -- Quarternary ecology in Northern Somalia / Baldur Gabriel, Bernd Voigt and Mumin Mohamud Ghod -- Hunter-gatherers of the Middle Juba Valley, Southern Somalia, during the early Holocene / Mauro Coltori and Margherita Mussi -- Probabilistic calibration of radiocarbon dates with specific examples from Northeastern Africa / Mieczysław F. Pazdur and Danuta J. Michczyńska
• Studies of wear on grinding stones / Tsuyoshi Fujimoto -- Craft production in Lower Egypt during Late Predynastic times with special reference to Ma'adi / Maria Casini.

ISBN

8390043416

OCLC

30999535

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Harvard Library