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Title

Archaeology of early Northeastern Africa : in memory of Lech Krzyżaniak / edited by Karla Kroeper, Marek Chłodnicki, Michał Kobusiewicz.

Publication

Poznań : Poznań Archaeological Museum, 2006.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xxx, 1061 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in African archeology, 0866-9244 ; vol. 9

Uniform Title

Studies in African archaeology (Poznań, Poland) v. 9.

Subject

• Africa, Northeast > Antiquities > Congresses
• Afrika <Nordost>
• Antiquities
• Archäologie
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Africa, Northeast > Congresses
• Neolithic period
• Neolithic period > Africa, Northeast > Congresses
• Northeast Africa

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Poznań Archeological Museum, Institute of Archeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Science, Poznań Branch and International Comission of the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa held at the Poznań Archeological Museum, Juliy14th-18th 2003.

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• Includes bibliographical references.

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• committed to retain

Contents

• Some new reflections on Islang and Nofalab Neolithic sites in Khartoum Province, Sudan / Abdelrahim M. Khabir -- A survey of the Wadi Awatib near Naga / Przemysław Bobrowski and Maciej Jórdeczka -- New data about rural economy in the Kerma culture : the site of Gism el-Arba (Sudan) / Louis Chaix -- A further "tessera" to the huge "mosaic" : studying the ancient settlement pattern of the El Salha region (south-west of Omdurman, central Sudan) / Mauro Cremaschi ... [et al.] -- Mid Holocene game drives in Nubian landscapes? / David N. Edwards -- The prehistory of the Blue Nile region (central Sudan and western Ethiopia) / Victor M. Fernández -- Pottery making processes at Esh Shaheinab, Sudan / Elena A.A. Garcea -- The faunal remains of the early Neolithic site Kadero, central Sudan / Achilles Gautier -- Kerma people in Egypt (middle and classic Kerma) / Brigitte Gratien -- Ritual and political aspects of iron working : iron in war and conflict / Randi Haaland --^
• Jebel Sahaba revisited / Margaret Judd -- Two unusual monuments in the northern Dongola reach of the Nile, Sudan / Derek A. Welsby -- A-group society in the context of Northeastern Africa / Bruce Beyer Williams -- Relative chronology of rock art at Djedefre's Water Mountain, SW-Egypt / Friedrich Berger -- Late Neolithic settlements (E-01-2 "camp") from the Gebel Ramlah Playa Basin, south-western desert of Egypt (preliminary report) / Przemysław Bobrowski, Romuald Schild and Gilberto Calderonii -- The early A-group in upper Lower Nubia, Upper Egypt and the surrounding deserts / Maria Carmela Gatto -- Pottery of the Wadi Howar - traditions, transformations and their implications / Birgit Keding -- An attempt at structuring the Holocene occupation of the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper -- The archaeology of Wadi Hariq (NW-Sudan) : results from excavations 1999 and 2001 / Mathias Lange --^
• Abkan connections - the relationship between the Abkan culture in the Nile Valley and early Nubian sites from the Laqiya region (eastern Sahara, northwest Sudan) / Mathias Lange and Hans-Åke Nordström -- Some enigmatic phenomena of the East, Central and West Sahara / Mark Milburn -- Mid-Holocene pastoralism in northwestern Sudan : cattle bone finds from Wadi Hariq and their cultural implications / Nadja Pöllath -- The prehistoric pottery of Abu Tartur, Western Desert of Egypt / Heiko Riemer and Peter Schönfeld -- Origins and development of bifacial stone tools and their implications for the beginning of animal herding in the Egyptian Western Desert / Noriyuki Shirai -- El Abadiya 3, Upper Egypt, a late Palaeolithic site on the shore of a large Nile lake / Pierre M. Vermeersch, W. Van Neer and F. Gullentops -- A pre-dynastic ass (Equus asinus) from the Sheikh Muftah cultural horizon of the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt / C.S. Churcher and M.R. Kleindienst --^
• Geoarchaeological investigations in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt : did a meteorite strike Dakhleh during the time of Middle Stone Age occupations? / Maxine R. Kleindienst ... [et al.] -- Stone knapping tradition in Old Kingdom Dakhleh / Michał Kobusiewicz -- The use and exploitation of the sorghum and wild plants in the hidden valley village (Farafra Oasis Egypt) / Giulio Lucarini -- Holocene prehistory of the Wadi el Midauwara above the Kharga Oasis, Egypt / Mary M.A. McDonald -- Out of Dakhla : cultural diversity and mobility between the Egyptian oases and the Great Sand Sea during the Holocene humid phase / Heiko Riemer -- Skeletal biology of Neolithic human remains from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt / J.L. Thompson and G.M. Madden -- Experimental archaeology in Dakhleh Oasis, south central Egypt : new insights on the prehistoric pottery industry / Ashten R. Warfe and Andrew S. Jamieson -- A new list of vases with 'cult-signs / Joanna Aksamit --^
• Models of state formation in predynastic Egypt / Branislav Anđelković -- State formation in ancient Egypt after the reading of Ibn Khaldûn's Muqaddimah / Lucas Baqué-Manzano -- Some general remarks on the origins of the state in Upper Egypt / Rodolfo Fattovich -- Defining pan-grave pottery / Serena Giuliani -- MacGregor-Man and the development of anthropomorphic figures in the late predynastic period / Nicola Harrington -- Some remarks on a rock drawing from Gebel Tjauti / Ulrich Hartung -- The sequence and chronology of the protodynastic and Dynasty I rulers / Fekri A. Hassan, Alejandro Jiménez Serrano and Geoffrey J. Tassie -- The dog, the Lycaon pictus and order over chaos in predynastic Egypt / Stan Hendrickx -- Early farmers from El-Badari : Aboriginals or "European" agro-Nostratic immigrants to the Nile Valley? Craniometric affinities considered with other evidence / S.O.Y. Keita --^
• The interpretation of variation in skull porosities by burial position in the Dynasty I royal cemetery complex in Abydos, Upper Egypt / S.O.Y. Keita -- Predynastic hairpins and combs from the necropolis of Naqada : preliminary conclusions / Candelaria Martín del Rio Álvarez -- Tell el-Masha'la : a predynastic/early dynastic site in the eastern Nile Delta / Sabrina R. Rampersad -- South Levantine influences on Egyptian stone and pottery production : some rare examples / Edwin C.M. van den Brink and Eliot Braun -- Considering the archaeology of early Northeast Africa : interpretation and methodology / Joris van Wetering and G.J. Tassie -- Human skeletal diversity in the Egyptian Nile Valley / Sonia R. Zakrzewski -- Tell el-Farkha - stratigraphy of the eastern Kom (northern part) / Marek Chłodnicki -- From residence to early temple : the case of Tell el-Farkha / Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz -- Tell el-Farkha necropolis in 2003 / Joanna Dębowska --^
• Egyptian-southern Levantine interaction in the 4th and 3rd millennium B.C. : a view from Tell el-Farkha / Agnieszka Mączyńska -- The archaeology of Jebel Gharbi - contributions to the knowledge of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in northern Libya / Barbara E. Barich -- Earthquakes and tectonic dynamics favouring late Pleistocene human settlements in the Jebel Gharbi, Libya / Elena A.A. Garcea and Carlo Giraudi -- Pastoral groups in the southern Libyan Desert : the Handessi horizon (c. 2400-1100 BC) / Friederike Jesse -- The Levallois assemblages of Sindh (Pakistan) and their importance in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Indian subcontinent / Paolo Biagi -- Linguistic stratigraphies and Holocene history in Northeastern Africa / Christopher Ehret.

ISBN

• 8360109060
• 9788360109069

LCCN

^^2007484688

OCLC

177291362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library