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Table of contents
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| From the Organizers and Editors …………………………………………………………………………………………………. |
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| List of Members of the Symposium ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. |
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| Address to the Participants (by Jan Żak) ……………………………………………………………………………………….. |
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| Preface (by Fred Wendorf) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. |
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| Introduction |
J. DESMOND CLARK
The domestication process in Northeast Africa: ecological change and adaptive strategies ………………….. |
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| I. General themes |
ACHILLES GAUTIER
Quaternary mammals and archaeozoology of Egypt and the Sudan: a survey ……………………………………. |
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JOHN A. ALEXANDER
The end of the moving frontier in the Neolithic of North-Eastern Africa ………………………………………………. |
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ABBAS S. MOHAMMED-ALI
Evidence of early food-production in Northeast Africa: an alternative model ………………………………………. |
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MARGHERITA MUSSI
Un modéle des débuts de 1’agriculture au Proche-Orient ………………………………………………………………… |
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WHITNEY DAVIS
The earliest art in the Nile Valley ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. |
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ERIKA ENDESFELDER
Social and economic development towards the end of the Predynastic period in Egypt ……………………….. |
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BRUCE G. TRIGGER
The mainlines of socio-economic devélopment ín dynastic Egypt to the end of the Old Kingdom ……………. |
101
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PETER L. SHINNIE
The mainlines of socio-economic development in the Sudan in Post-Neolithic times …………………………….. |
109
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| II. Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt |
FRED WENDORF and ROMUALD SCHILD
Some implications of Late Palaeolithic cereal exploitation at Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper Egypt) ………………… |
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ANN STEMLER and RICHARD H. FALK
Evidence of grains from the site of Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper Egypt) …………………………………………………… |
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PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH
Subsistence activities on the Late Palaeolithic sites of Elkab (Upper Egypt) ……………………………………….. |
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DOUGLAS R. CONNOR
The Kiseiba Plateau: a systematic surface survey in Egypt’s Western Desert …………………………………….. |
143
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K. MORGAN BANKS
Early ceramic-bearing occupations in the Egyptian Western Desert ………………………………………………….. |
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ANGELA E. CLOSE
Early Holocene raw material economies in the Western Desert of Egypt ……………………………………………. |
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MICHAŁ KOBUSIEWICZ
The multicultural Early Holocene site E-79-4 at Ghorab Playa, Western Desert of Egypt ………………………. |
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MARGHERITA MUSSI, ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARRATINI
More on the Terminal Palaeolithic of the Fayum Depression …………………………………………………………….. |
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ROBERT J. WENKE
Early agriculture in the Southern Fayum Depression: some test survey results and research implications |
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MARIA CASlNI
Neolithic and Predynastic in the Fayum …………………………………………………………………………………………. |
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ANTHONY J. MILLS
Research in the Dakhleh Oasis …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. |
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THOMAS R. HAYS
Predynastic development in Upper Egypt ………………………………………………………………………………………. |
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FEKRI A. HASSAN
Toward a model of agricultural developments in Predynastic Egypt …………………………………………………… |
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STAN HENDRICKX
The Late Predynastic cemetery at Elkab (Upper Egypt) …………………………………………………………………… |
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DIRK HUYGE
Rock drawings at the mouth of Wadi Hellal, Elkab (Upper Egypt) ……………………………………………………… |
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MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN
Predynastic cultural ecology and patterns of settlement in Upper Egypt as viewed from Hierakonpolis ….. |
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BOLESŁAW GINTER and JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI
The Tarifian and the origin of the Naqadian …………………………………………………………………………………… |
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BÉATRIX MIDANT-REYNES
La taille des couteaux de silex du type Gebel-el-Arak et la dénomination du silex en égyptien ……………… |
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DIETRICH WILDUNG
Terminal prehistory of the Nile Delta: theses …………………………………………………………………………………. |
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| III. Egyptian Varia |
FLORENCE BRAUNSTEIN-SILVESTRE
Quand le cheval arrive-t-il en Égypte? ………………………………………………………………………………………….. |
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PRENTISS S. de JESUS
Comments on the development of pyrotechnology in early societies …………………………………………………. |
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ALESSANDRA NIBBI
Some Early Dynastic clues relating to the environment of Ancient Egypt ……………………………………………. |
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| IV. Late Palaeolithic, “Early Khartoum” and the Neotithic of the Sudan |
EUGEN STROUHAL
Craniometric analysis of the Late Palaeolithic population of the Wadi Halfa region (Lower Nubia) …………. |
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JEAN LECLANT
Les gravures rupestres du Gebel Gorgod (Nubie) …………………………………………………………………………… |
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ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARATTINI
Saggai: a settlement of hunter-fishers north of Khartoum ……………………………………………………………….. |
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A. TIGANI EL MAHI
An interpretation of the faunal remains from El Zakiab site (Central Sudan) ………………………………………. |
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LECH KRZYŻANIAK
The Neolithic habitation at Kadero (Central Sudan) ………………………………………………………………………… |
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ACHILLES GAUTIER
The fauna of the Neolithic site of Kadero (Centrat Sudan) ……………………………………………………………….. |
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MELANIA KLICHOWSKA
Plants of the Neolithic Kadero (Central Sudan): a palaeoethnobotanical study of the plant impressions on pottery ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… |
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ELŻBIETA PROMIŃSKA
The demography of the populations from Kadero (Central Sudan) ……………………………………………………. |
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TADEUSZ DZIERŻYKRAY-ROGALSKI
Remarks on the position of human remains in the Neolithic graves at Kadero (Central Sudan) ……………… |
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MAREK CHŁODNICKI
Pottery from the Neolithic settlement at Kadero (Central Sudan) ……………………………………………………… |
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JACEK NOWAKOWSKI
The typology of lithic implements from the Neolithic settlement at Kadero (Central Sudan) ………………….. |
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ISABELLA CANEVA
Early Neolithic settlement and later cemetery at Geili (Central Sudan) ………………………………………………. |
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FRANCIS GEUS
Excavations at El Kadada and the Neolithic of the Central Sudan ……………………………………………………… |
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| V. The Terminal Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Sahara and the Maghreb |
K ROMUALD SCHILD and FRED WENDORF
The earliest, Holocene production of cereals in the Egyptian Sahara …………………………………………………. |
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BURCHARD BRENTJES
Agriculture, domestication and the rock-art …………………………………………………………………………………… |
381
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BALDUR GABRIEL
Great plains and mountain areas as habitats for the Neolithic man in the Sahara ………………………………. |
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BARBARA E. BARICH
The Epipalaeolithic-ceramic groups of Libyan Sahara: notes for an economic model of the cultural development in the West-Central Sahara ……………………………………………………………………………………… |
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BARBARA E. BARICH, GIORGIO BELLUOMINl, FRANCESCOPAOLO BONADONNA, MARISA AI.ESSIO
and LUIGIA MANFRA
Ecological and cultural relevance of the recent new radiocarbon dates from Libyan Sahara …………………. |
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GINETTE AUMASSIP
Modes de vie néolithique dans le Sahara Oriental Algerien ……………………………………………………………… |
419
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MARK A. W. MILBURN
Some enigmatic stone artifacts of the Eastern Sahara: “rondins de pierre” ……………………………………….. |
427
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COLETTE ROUBET et PATRICK L. CART’ER
La domestication au Maghreb: état de la question …………………………………………………………………………. |
437
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DAVID LUBELL
The Capsian palaeoeconomy in the Maghreb …………………………………………………………………………………. |
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| VI. The Neolithic of the East Africa |
DIANE P. GIFFORD-GONZÁLEZ and JOHN KIMENGICH
Faunal evidence for early stock-keeping in the Central Rift of Kenya: preliminary findings ……………………. |
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JOHN R. F. BOWER
Subsistence-settlement systems of the Pastoral Neolithic in East Africa …………………………………………….. |
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CHARLES M. NELSON and JOHN KIMENGICH
Early phases of pastoral adaptation in the Central Highlands of Kenya …………………………………………….. |
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DAVID W. PHILLIPSON
Aspects of early food production in Northern Kenya ……………………………………………………………………….. |
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| Epilogue |
| (by J. DESMOND CLARK) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… |
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| Resolution adopted by the participants in the Symposium ……………………………………………………………….. |
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