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Title

Interregional contacts in the later prehistory of northeastern Africa / edited by Lech Krzyżaniak, Karla Kroeper and Michał Kobusiewicz.

Publication

Poznań : Poznań Archaeological Museum, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Kobusiewicz, Michał.
• Kroeper, Karla.
• Krzyżaniak, Lech.
• Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu.

Description

490 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in African archaeology, 0866-9244 ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Studies in African archaeology (Poznań, Poland) v. 5.

Subject

• Africa, Northeast > Antiquities > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Africa, Northeast > Congresses

Note

• "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, 8th-12th September, 1992"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Social complexity and cultural contacts in Northeastern Africa between 3000 and 1000 B.C. / Andrea Manzo -- Near Eastern connection II / Andrew B. Smith -- Archaeology of Jebel Gharbi (Northwest Libya) and the Libyan sequence / Barbara E. Barich, Cecilia Conati-Barbaro and Carlo Giraudi -- Cultural areas and interregional relations/ Jean-Loïc Le Quellec -- Anthracological studies in the Northeastern Sahara / Hala Barakat -- Farafra Oasis between the Sahara and the Nile / Barbara E. Barich, Fekri A. Hassan and Alessandra A. Stoppiello -- Between the Oases and the Nile -Djara / Rudolph Kuper.
• Relations between Dakhleh Oasis and the Nile Valley in the Mid-Holocene / Mary M. A. McDonald -- Architecture of Early Neolithic huts at Nabta Playa / Romuald Schild ... [et al.] -- Late Neolithic of Gilf Kebir / Werner Schön -- Late Neolithic megalith complex in the Eastern Sahara / Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Nieves Zedeno -- Imports and imitations in Predynastic funerary contexts at Hierakonpolis / Barbara Adams -- Predynastic site of Halfiah Gibli, Upper Egypt, and interconnections within the Nagada network / Kathryn A. Bard -- Expressions of social status / Chris Ellis -- Raw material procurement in the Tarifian and in the Naqada Culture / Bolesław Ginter, Janusz K. Kozłowski and Maciej Pawlikowski.
• Recent investigations in the Badari region (Middle Egypt) / Diane L. Holmes -- Lithic assemblages from Hierakonpolis and interregional relations in Predynastic Egypt / Diane L. Holmes -- Analysis of Nagada Predynastic crania / Shomarka O.Y. Keita -- Evidence for interregional contacts between late prehistoric Lower and Upper Egypt / E. Christiana Köhler -- Human biological variation at Nagada / Nancy C. Lovell and Andrew L. Johnson -- Predynastic site of Adaima (Upper Egypt) / Beatrix Midant-Reynes -- Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic cemetery of Beni Amir (Eastern Delta) / Mohamed Adel M. Abdel el-Moneim -- Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic mound of Beni Amir (Eastern Delta) / Mohamed Adel M. Abd el-Moneim.
• Protodynastic excavations at Tell Hassan Dawud / Mohamed Ibrahim Bakr, Mohamed Adel Abd el-Moneim and Mahmoud Omar M. Selim -- Lower and Upper Egypt in the Chalcolithic Period / Klaus Schmidt -- Local crop production versus import of cereals during the Predynastic Period in the Nile Delta / Ursula Thanheiser -- Survey in northwestern Sinai / Isabella Caneva -- Observations on the earliest phase of relations between Egypt and Canaan during the Early Bronze Age / Ram Gophna -- Post-Shaheinab Neolithic remains at Geili / Isabella Caneva -- Cultural developments in the final hunting-gathering horizons in the Middle and Upper Nile Valley / Elena A.A. Garcea -- Contacts between the Nubian 'A-Groups" and Predynastic Egypt / Maria C. Gatto and F. Tiraterra.
• Mesolithic/Neolithic of the Blue Nile / Alfredo Jimeno ... [ et al.] -- Technology, goals and efficiency of quartz exploitation in the Khartoum Neolithic / Michał Kobusiewicz -- Jebel Kobkabba / Michał Kobusiewicz and Jacek Kabaciński -- Neolithic sites on the White Nile / Mahmoud el-Tayeb Mahmoud -- New light on Mesolithic resource scheduling and site inhabitation in Central Sudan / Joris Peters -- Afro-Arabian circuit / Rodolfo Fattovich -- Experiments in grinding cereals / Tsuyoshi Fujimoto -- Considerations on the "Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan" / Stan Hendrickx -- Iron age terracotta pestles in the Sahel area / Eric Huysecom.
• Aegypto-Aegean relations up to the 2nd millenium B.C. / Jacke Phillips -- Origin and dispersal of millet cultivation in India / Purushottam Singh -- Archaeometric analysis of copper swords from Kerma, Nubia / Suzanne M.M. Young.

ISBN

8390043475

OCLC

37617350

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library