I.  | 
    General themes 
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 ACHILLES GAUTIER 
Quaternary mammals and archaeozoology of Egypt and the Sudan: a survey  | 
    43  | 
  
  
    
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  JOHN A. ALEXANDER 
The end of the moving frontier in the Neolithic of North-Eastern Africa  | 
    57  | 
  
  
    
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ABBAS S. MOHAMMED-ALI 
Evidence of early food-production in Northeast Africa: an alternative model  | 
    65  | 
  
  
    
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MARGHERITA MUSSI 
Un modéle des débuts de 1'agriculture au Proche-Orient  | 
    73  | 
  
 
    
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WHITNEY DAVIS 
The earliest art in the Nile Valley  | 
    81  | 
  
 
    
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ERIKA ENDESFELDER 
Social and economic development towards the end of the Predynastic  
period in Egypt  | 
    95  | 
  
 
    
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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  | 
  
   
  
    
 II.  | 
     
    Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt  | 
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 FRED WENDORF and ROMUALD SCHILD 
Some implications of Late Palaeolithic cereal exploitation at Wadi Kubbaniya 
(Upper Egypt)  | 
    117  | 
  
  
    
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  ANN STEMLER and RICHARD H. FALK 
Evidence of grains from the site of Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper Egypt)  | 
    129  | 
  
  
    
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 PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH 
Subsistence activities on the Late Palaeolithic sites of Elkab (Upper Egypt)  | 
    137  | 
  
  
    
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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  | 
    149  | 
  
  
    
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 ANGELA E. CLOSE 
Early Holocene raw material economies in the Western Desert of Egypt  | 
    163  | 
  
   
    
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  MICHAŁ KOBUSIEWICZ 
The multicultural Early Holocene site E-79-4 at Ghorab Playa,  
Western Desert of Egypt  | 
    171  | 
  
   
    
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 MARGHERITA MUSSI, ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARRATINI 
More on the Terminal Palaeolithic of the Fayum Depression  | 
    185  | 
  
    
    
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 ROBERT J. WENKE 
Early agriculture in the Southern Fayum Depression:  
some test survey results
and research implications  | 
    193  | 
  
    
    
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 MARIA CASlNI 
Neolithic and Predynastic in the Fayum  | 
    199  | 
  
   
    
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 ANTHONY J. MILLS 
Research in the Dakhleh Oasis  | 
    205  | 
  
   
    
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 THOMAS R. HAYS 
Predynastic development in Upper Egypt  | 
    211  | 
  
   
    
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 FEKRI A. HASSAN 
Toward a model of agricultural developments in Predynastic Egypt  | 
    221  | 
  
    
    
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 STAN HENDRICKX 
The Late Predynastic cemetery at Elkab (Upper Egypt)  | 
    225  | 
  
    
    
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 DIRK HUYGE 
Rock drawings at the mouth of Wadi Hellal, Elkab (Upper Egypt)  | 
    231  | 
  
    
    
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 MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN 
Predynastic cultural ecology and patterns of settlement  
in Upper Egypt as
viewed from Hierakonpolis  | 
    235  | 
  
     
    
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 BOLESŁAW GINTER and JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI 
The Tarifian and the origin of the Naqadian  | 
    247  | 
  
    
    
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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  | 
    261  | 
  
     
    
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  DIETRICH WILDUNG 
Terminal prehistory of the Nile Delta: theses  | 
    265  | 
  
   
  
    
 III.  | 
    
 Egyptian Varia  | 
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 FLORENCE BRAUNSTEIN-SILVESTRE 
Quand le cheval arrive-t-il en Égypte?  | 
    271  | 
  
  
    
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 PRENTISS S. de JESUS 
Comments on the development of pyrotechnology in early societies  | 
    277  | 
  
  
    
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 ALESSANDRA NIBBI 
Some Early Dynastic clues relating to the environment of Ancient Egypt  | 
    287  | 
  
  
    
 IV.  | 
    
 Late Palaeolithic, "Early Khartoum" and the Neotithic of the Sudan  | 
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 EUGEN STROUHAL 
Craniometric analysis of the Late Palaeolithic population  
of the Wadi
Halfa region (Lower Nubia)  | 
    295  | 
  
  
    
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  JEAN LECLANT 
Les gravures rupestres du Gebel Gorgod (Nubie)  | 
    299  | 
  
  
    
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  ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARATTINI 
Saggai: a settlement of hunter-fishers north of Khartoum  | 
    301  | 
  
  
    
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 A. TIGANI EL MAHI 
An interpretation of the faunal remains from El Zakiab site (Central Sudan)  | 
    307  | 
  
  
    
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 LECH KRZYŻANIAK 
The Neolithic habitation at Kadero (Central Sudan)  | 
    309  | 
  
   
    
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 ACHILLES GAUTIER 
The fauna of the Neolithic site of Kadero (Centrat Sudan)  | 
    317  | 
  
   
    
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 MELANIA KLICHOWSKA 
Plants of the Neolithic Kadero (Central Sudan):  
a palaeoethnobotanical study
of the plant impressions on pottery  | 
    321  | 
  
   
    
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 ELŻBIETA PROMIŃSKA 
The demography of the populations from Kadero (Central Sudan)  | 
    327  | 
  
   
    
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 TADEUSZ DZIERŻYKRAY-ROGALSKI 
Remarks on the position of human remains in the Neolithic graves at Kadero 
(Central Sudan)  | 
    333  | 
  
   
    
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 MAREK CHŁODNICKI 
Pottery from the Neolithic settlement at Kadero (Central Sudan)  | 
    337  | 
  
  
    
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  JACEK NOWAKOWSKI 
The typology of lithic implements from the Neolithic settlement at Kadero 
(Central Sudan)  | 
    343  | 
  
  
    
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 ISABELLA CANEVA 
Early Neolithic settlement and later cemetery at Geili (Central Sudan)  | 
    353  | 
  
   
    
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 FRANCIS GEUS 
Excavations at El Kadada and the Neolithic of the Central Sudan  | 
    361  | 
  
 
    
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 The Terminal Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Sahara and the Maghreb  | 
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 ROMUALD SCHILD and FRED WENDORF 
The earliest, Holocene production of cereals in the Egyptian Sahara  | 
    373  | 
  
  
    
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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  | 
    391  | 
  
 
    
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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  | 
    399  | 
  
  
    
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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  | 
    411  | 
  
  
    
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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  | 
    453  | 
  
  
    
 VI.  | 
    
 The Neolithic of the East Africa  | 
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 DIANE P. GIFFORD-GONZÁLEZ and JOHN KIMENGICH 
Faunal evidence for early stock-keeping in the Central Rift of Kenya:  
preliminary
findings  | 
    457  | 
  
  
    
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 JOHN R. F. BOWER 
Subsistence-settlement systems of the Pastoral Neolithic in East Africa  | 
    473  | 
  
   
    
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 CHARLES M. NELSON and JOHN KIMENGICH 
Early phases of pastoral adaptation in the Central Highlands of Kenya  | 
    481  | 
  
   
    
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 DAVID W. PHILLIPSON 
Aspects of early food production in Northern Kenya  | 
    489  |