Environmental Change and Human Culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until the Second Millenium B.C., Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 4

Poznan: Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 17x24 cm. ISBN: 83-900434-1-6 Description: softcover, 494 pages (17x24 cm), drawings, plans, photographs Condition: very good Weight: 820g. Environmental Change and Human Culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until the Second Millenium B.C., Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 4, edited by L. Krzyzaniak, M. Kobusiewicz and John Alexander, Poznan Archaeological Museum 1993 From the Organizers and Editors List of Participants in the Symposium I. North African littoral and the Sahara GRAEME BARKER The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey: environmental change and human settlement in Tripolitania KRYSTYNA WASYLIKOWA Plant macrofossils from the archaeological sites of Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya MIECZYSLAW F. PAZDUR Evaluation of radiocarbon dates of organic samples from Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya J. DESMOND CLARK The Aterian of the Central Sahara ANDREW B. SMITH New approaches to Saharan rock art of the Bovidian Period ROBERT VERNET Le Neolithique recent dans le sud-ouest du Sahara II. Eastern Sahara FRED WENDORF, ROMUALD SCHILD AND ANGELA E. CLOSE Middle Palaeolithic occupations at Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Western Desert of Egypt ANGELA E. CLOSE BT-14, a stratified Middle Palaeolithic site at Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt ACHILLES GAUTIER The faunal spectrum of the Middle Palaeolithic in Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt PHILIP VAN PEER Levallois variability and the Middle Palaeolithic of the Lower Nile Valley and the Eastern Sahara ANDREAS DITTMANN Environmental and climatic change in the northern part of the Eastern Desert during Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic times KATHARINA NEUMANN Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites BARBARA E. BARICH Culture and environment between the Sahara and the Nile in the Early and Mid-Holocene ERWIN CZIESLA Investigations into the archaeology of the Sitra-Hatiyet, Northwestern Egypt MARY M.A. McDONALD Cultural adaptations in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, in the Early to Mid-Holocene IAN A. BROOKES Early Holocene basinal sediments of the Dakhleh Oasis region, Egypt (theses) RUDOLPH KUPER Sahel in Egypt: environmental change and cultural development in the Abu Ballas area, Libyan Desert JOACHIM HAHN Neolithic settlement patterns in the Gebel Kamil area, Southwestern Egypt WERNER SCHUCK An archaeological survey of the Selima Sandsheet, Sudan STEFAN KRPELIN The Gilf Kebir and Lower Wadi Howar: contrasting Early and Mid-Holocene environments in the Eastern Sahara III. The Nile Delta, the Fayum and the Egyptian Nile Valley JURGEN WUNDERLICH The natural conditions for Pre- and Early Dynastic settlement in the Western Nile Delta around Tell el-Fara'in, Buto KLAUS SCHMIDT Comments to the lithic industry of the Buto-Maadi culture in Lower Egypt EDWIN C.M. VAN DEN BRINK Settlement patterns in the Northeastern Nile Delta during the fourth-second millennia RC HUIB E. DE WIT The evolution of the Eastern Nile Delta as a factor in the development of human culture LECH KRZYZANIAK New data on the late prehistoric settlement at Minshat Abu Omar, Eastern Nile Delta JANUSZ K. KOZLOWSKI AND BOLESLAW GINTER Holocene changes in the Fayum: Lake Moeris and the evolution of climate in Northeastern Africa PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH AND ETIENNE PAULISSEN Palaeolithic chert quarrying and mining in Egypt MARIA LITYNSKA Plant remains from the Neolithic site at Armant: preliminary report MACEJ PAWLIKOWSKI Mineralogy of the Nile Valley sediments as an indicator of changes of climate: the Armant - Luxor area, Upper Egypt MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN AND JAMES O. MILLS Problems of assessing environmental impact on the Predynastic settlements of Hierakonpolis IV. The Sudan BIRGIT KEDING Leiterband sites in the Wadi Howar, North Sudan HENRI J. DUMONT AND ASIM I. EL MOGHRABY Holocene evolution of climate and environment, and stone "city" ruins in Northern [..]