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Lech Krzyżaniak,
Michał Kobusiewicz, John Alexander (eds.) Environmental change
and human culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until the second millenium B.C.
Poznań 1993
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Table of Contents
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From the Organizers and Editors
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List of Participants in the Symposium
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I.
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North African littoral and the Sahara
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GRAEME BARKER
The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey: environmental change and human settlement in Tripolitania |
15
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KRYSTYNA WASYLIKOWA
Plant macrofossils from the archaeological sites of Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya |
25
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MIECZYSŁAW F. PAZDUR
Evaluation of radiocarbon dates of organic samples from Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya |
43
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J. DESMOND CLARK
The Aterian of the Central Sahara |
49
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ANDREW B. SMITH
Terminal Palaeolithic industries of Sahara: a discussion of new data |
69
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ANDREW B. SMITH
New approaches to Saharan rock art of the Bovidian Period |
77
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ROBERT VERNET
Le Néolithique récent dans le sud-ouest du Sahara |
91
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II.
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Eastern Sahara
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FRED WENDORF, ROMUALD SCHILD AND ANGELA E. CLOSE
Middle Palaeolithic occupations at Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Western Desert of Egypt |
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ANGELA E. CLOSE
BT-14, a stratified Middle Palaeolithic site at Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt |
113
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ACHILLES GAUTIER
The faunal spectrum of the Middle Palaeolithic in Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt |
123
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PHILIP VAN PEER
Levallois variability and the Middle Palaeolithic of the Lower Nile Valley and the Eastern Sahara |
129
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ANDREAS DITTMANN
Environmental and climatic change in the northern part of the Eastern Desert during Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic times |
145
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KATHARINA NEUMANN
Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites |
153
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BARBARA E. BARICH
Culture and environment between the Sahara and the Nile in the Early and Mid-Holocene |
171
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ERWIN CZIESLA
Investigations into the archaeology of the Sitra-Hatiyet, Northwestern Egypt |
185
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MARY M.A. McDONALD
Cultural adaptations in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, in the Early to Mid-Holocene |
199
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IAN A. BROOKES
Early Holocene basinal sediments of the Dakhleh Oasis region, Egypt (theses) |
211
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RUDOLPH KUPER
Sahel in Egypt: environmental change and cultural development in the Abu Ballas area, Libyan Desert |
213
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JOACHIM HAHN
Neolithic settlement patterns in the Gebel Kamil area, Southwestern Egypt |
225
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WERNER SCHUCK
An archaeological survey of the Selima Sandsheet, Sudan |
237
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STEFAN KRÖPELIN
The Gilf Kebir and Lower Wadi Howar: contrasting Early and Mid-Holocene environments in the Eastern Sahara |
249
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III.
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The Nile Delta, the Fayum and the Egyptian Nile Valley
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JÜRGEN WUNDERLICH
The natural conditions for Pre- and Early Dynastic settlement in the Western Nile Delta around Tell el-Fara’in, Buto |
259
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KLAUS SCHMIDT
Comments to the lithic industry of the Buto-Maadi culture in Lower Egypt |
267
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EDWIN C.M. VAN DEN BRINK
Settlement patterns in the Northeastern Nile Delta during the fourth-second millennia RC |
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HUIB E. DE WIT
The evolution of the Eastern Nile Delta as a factor in the development of human culture |
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LECH KRZYŻANIAK
New data on the late prehistoric settlement at Minshat Abu Omar, Eastern Nile Delta |
321
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JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI AND BOLESŁAW GINTER
Holocene changes in the Fayum: Lake Moeris and the evolution of climate in Northeastern Africa |
327
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PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH AND ETIENNE PAULISSEN
Palaeolithic chert quarrying and mining in Egypt |
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MARIA LITYŃSKA
Plant remains from the Neolithic site at Armant: preliminary report |
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MACEJ PAWLIKOWSKI
Mineralogy of the Nile Valley sediments as an indicator of changes of climate: the Armant – Luxor area, Upper Egypt |
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MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN AND JAMES O. MILLS
Problems of assessing environmental impact on the Predynastic settlements of Hierakonpolis |
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IV.
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The Sudan
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BIRGIT KEDING
Leiterband sites in the Wadi Howar, North Sudan |
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HENRI J. DUMONT AND ASIM I. EL MOGHRABY
Holocene evolution of climate and environment, and stone “city” ruins in Northern Darfur, Sudan: is there a relationship? |
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LOUIS CHAIX AND ANNIE GRANT
Palaeoenvironment and economy at Kerma, Northern Sudan, during the third millennium B.C.: archaeozoological and botanical evidence |
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ISABELLA CANEVA
Pre-pastoral Middle Nile: local developments and Saharan contacts |
405
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JORIS PETERS
Animal exploitation between the fifth and the sixth Cataract ca. 8,500-7,000 B.P.: a preliminary report on the faunas from El Damer, Abu Darbein and Aneibis |
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KARIM SADR
Environmental change and the development of nomadism in the East-Central Sudan |
421
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ANTHONY E. MARKS
Climatic and cultural changes in the Southern Atbai, Sudan, from the fifth through the third millennium B.C. |
431
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RODOLFO FATIOVICH
The Gash Group of the Eastern Sudan: an outline |
439
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V.
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The Horn of Africa
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BALDUR GABRIEL, BERND VOIGT AND MUMIN MOHAMUD GHOD
Quaternary ecology in Northern Somalia: a preliminary field repor |
449
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MAURO COLTORTI AND MARGHERITA MUSSI
Hunter-gatherers of the Middle Juba Valley, Southern Somalia, during the Early Holocene |
459
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VI.
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Varia
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MIECZYSŁAW F. PAZDUR AND DANUTA J. MICHCZYŃSKA
Probabilistic calibration of radiocarbon dates with specific examples from Northeastern Africa |
473
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TSUYOSHI FUJIMOTO
Studies of wear on grinding stones |
485
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MARIA CASINI
Craft production in Lower Egypt during Late Predynastic times with special reference to Ma’ad |
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