Lech Krzyżaniak,
Michał Kobusiewicz (eds.) Late prehistory of the Nile Basin
and the Sahara
Poznań 1989
|
Table of Contents
From the Organizers and Editors
|
…………………………………………………….
|
9
|
List of Participants in the Symposium
|
…………………………………………………….
|
11
|
Opening Address (by Michał Kobusiewicz)
|
…………………………………………………….
|
17
|
I.
|
General themes
|
|
•
|
ALBERT J. AMMERMAN
The use of Landsat imagery for reconnaissance work in the Sahara |
19
|
•
|
HUGH DOGGET
A suggested history of the crops common to Ethiopia and India |
27
|
•
|
WILLEM VAN NEER
Fishing along the prehistoric Nile |
49
|
•
|
KIMBALL M. BANKS
The sppearance and spread of cattle-keeping in Saharan North Africa |
57
|
•
|
FRED WENDORF, ANGELA E. CLOSE and ROMUALD SCHILD
Early domestic cattle and scientific methodology |
61
|
•
|
ANDREW B. SMITH
The Near Eastern connection: Early to Mid-Holocene relations between North Africa and the Levant |
69
|
•
|
ZOHEIR H. BABIKER
Correlations culturelles et problemes chronologiques entre le Nil Soudanais et le Sahara |
79
|
II.
|
Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt
|
|
•
|
PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH, ETIENNE PAULISSEN and WILLEM VAN NEER
The Late Palaeolithic Makhadma sites (Egypt): environment and subsistence |
87
|
•
|
ANGELA E. CLOSE
Lithic development in the Kubbaniyan (Upper Egypt) |
117
|
•
|
DOUGLAS J. BREWER
A model for resource exploitation in the prehistoric Fayum |
127
|
•
|
ROBERT J. WENKE and MARIA CASINI
The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transition in Egypt’s Fayum Depression |
139
|
•
|
JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI and BOLESŁAW GINTER
The Fayum Neolithic in the light of new discoveries |
157
|
•
|
MACIEJ HENNEBERG, MICHAŁ KOBUSIBWICZ,
ROMUALD SCHILD and FRED WENDORF The Early Neolithic, Quarunian burial from the Northern Fayum Desert (Egypt) |
181
|
•
|
RUDOLPH KUPER
The Eastern Sahara from North to South: data and dates from the B.O.S. Project |
197
|
•
|
ERWIN CZIESLA
Sitra and related sites at the western border of Egypt |
205
|
•
|
WERNER SCHOEN
New results from two playa-sites in the Gilf Kebir (Egypt) |
215
|
•
|
FRANK KLEES
Lobo: a contribution to the prehistory of the eastern Sand Sea and the Egyptian oase |
223
|
•
|
IAN EDWARDS and COLIN A. HOPE
A note on the Neolithic ceramics from the Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt) |
233
|
III.
|
Predynastic Egypt
|
|
•
|
DIANE L. HOLMES
Inter-regional variability in Egyptian Predynastic lithic assemblages |
243
|
•
|
SAVA P. TUTUNDŻIĆ
The problem of foreign north-eastern relations of Upper Egypt, particularly in Badarian period: an aspect |
255
|
•
|
KRZYSZTOF M. CIAŁOWICZ
Predynastic mace-heads in the Nile Valley |
261
|
•
|
LECH KRZYŻANIAK
Recent archaeological evidence on the earliest settlement in the eastern Nile Delta |
267
|
•
|
ISABELLA CANEVA, MARCELLA FRANGIPANE and ALBA PALMIERI
Recent excavations at Maadi (Egypt) |
287
|
•
|
CLAUDIO BAROCAS, RODOLFO FATTOVICH and MAURIZIO TOSI
The Oriental Institute of Naples expedition to Petrie’s South Town (Upper Egypt), 1977-1983: an interim report |
295
|
•
|
FEKRI A. HASSAN and RICHARD G. MATSON
Seriation of predynastic potsherds from the Nagada region (Upper Egypt) |
303
|
•
|
MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN
A stratified Predynastic sequence from Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt) |
317
|
•
|
JOANNA AKSAMIT
The gold handle of a fishtail dagger from Gebelein (Upper Egypt) |
325
|
IV.
|
Egyptian varia
|
|
•
|
TADEUSZ DZIERŻYKRAY-ROGALSKI
Sur la paleodemographie de 1’oasis de Dakhleh (Egypte) |
333
|
•
|
ALESSANDRA NIBBI
Some remarks on two very early but enduring symbols in ancient Egypt |
339
|
V.
|
Late Palaeolithic, “Early Khartoum” and the Neolithic of the Sudan
|
|
•
|
ACHILLES GAUTIER
A general review of the known prehistoric faunas of the Central Sudanese Nile Valley |
353
|
•
|
RANDI HAALAND
The Late Neolithic culture-historical sequence in the Central Sudan |
359
|
•
|
MAREK CHŁODNICKI
The petrographic analyses of the Neolithic pottery of Central Sudan |
369
|
•
|
ISABELLA CANEVA
Typological notes: the Sudanese case |
375
|
•
|
AHMED M. ALI HAKEM and ABDEL RAHIM M. KHABIR
Sarourab 2: a new contribution to the Early Khartoum tradition from Bauda site |
381
|
•
|
J. DHSMOND CLARK
Shabona: an Early Khartoum settlement on the White Nile |
387
|
•
|
VICTOR M. FERNANDEZ
A new Neolithic site near Khartoum |
411
|
•
|
ELŻBIETA PROMINSKA
Anthropological examination of human remains from Geili (Ccntral Sudan) |
417
|
•
|
WERNER SCHUCK
From lake to well: 5,000 years of settlement in Wadi Shaw (Northern Sudan) |
421
|
•
|
JUERGEN RICHTER
Neolithic sites in the Wadi Howar (Western Sudan) |
431
|
•
|
ANTHONY E. MARKS
The later prehistory of the Central Nile Valley: a view from its Eastern Hinterlands |
443
|
•
|
ANTHONY E. MARKS and RODOLFO FATTOVICH
The later prehistory of the Eastern Sudan: a preliminary view |
451
|
•
|
ANWAR A. MAGID
Exploitation of plants in the Eastern Sahel (Sudan), 5,000 – 2,000 B.C. |
459
|
•
|
JORIS PETERS
The faunal remains from several sites at Jebel Shaqadud (Central Sudan): a preliminary report |
469
|
•
|
ABBAS S. A. MOHAMMED-ALI and SUSAN E. JAEGER
The early ceramics of the Eastern Butana (Sudan) |
473
|
•
|
RODOLFO FATTOVICH
The late Prehistory of the Gash Delta (Eastern Sudan) |
481
|
VI.
|
The Terminal Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Sahara and the Magbreb
|
|
•
|
BARBARA E. BARICH
Uan Muhuggiag rock shelter (Tadrart Acacua) and the late prehistory of the Libyan Sahara |
449
|
•
|
THIERRY TILLET
La fin des temps paleolithiques dans le Bassin Tchadien nord-occidental |
507
|
•
|
JAN JELINEK
Saharan Neolithic rock art |
513
|
•
|
MARK MILBURN
Enigmatic stone objects of Saharan Neolithic and Post-Neolithic |
547
|