Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu - wydawnictwa i publikacje

Muzeum
Archeologiczne
strona główna

Seria "Studies in African Archaeology"

Lech Krzyżaniak,
Michał Kobusiewicz,
John Alexander (red.)

Environmental change
and human culture in the Nile
Basin and Northern Africa until
the second millenium B.C.

Poznań 1993

Spis treści:

From the Organizers and Editors	...............................................................	9
List of Participants in the Symposium	...............................................................	10

I.	North African littoral and the Sahara
•	GRAEME BARKER The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey: environmental change and human settlement in Tripolitania	15
•	KRYSTYNA WASYLIKOWA Plant macrofossils from the archaeological sites of Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya	25
•	MIECZYSŁAW F. PAZDUR Evaluation of radiocarbon dates of organic samples from Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya	43
•	J. DESMOND CLARK The Aterian of the Central Sahara	49
•	ANDREW B. SMITH Terminal Palaeolithic industries of Sahara: a discussion of new data	69
•	ANDREW B. SMITH New approaches to Saharan rock art of the Bovidian Period	77
•	ROBERT VERNET Le Néolithique récent dans le sud-ouest du Sahara	91
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	103
•	ANGELA E. CLOSE BT-14, a stratified Middle Palaeolithic site at Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt	113
•	ACHILLES GAUTIER The faunal spectrum of the Middle Palaeolithic in Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt	123
•	PHILIP VAN PEER Levallois variability and the Middle Palaeolithic of the Lower Nile Valley and the Eastern Sahara	129
•	ANDREAS DITTMANN Environmental and climatic change in the northern part of the Eastern Desert during Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic times	145
•	KATHARINA NEUMANN Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites	153
•	BARBARA E. BARICH Culture and environment between the Sahara and the Nile in the Early and Mid-Holocene	171
•	ERWIN CZIESLA Investigations into the archaeology of the Sitra-Hatiyet, Northwestern Egypt	185
•	MARY M.A. McDONALD Cultural adaptations in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, in the Early to Mid-Holocene	199
•	IAN A. BROOKES Early Holocene basinal sediments of the Dakhleh Oasis region, Egypt (theses)	211
•	RUDOLPH KUPER Sahel in Egypt: environmental change and cultural development in the Abu Ballas area, Libyan Desert	213
•	JOACHIM HAHN Neolithic settlement patterns in the Gebel Kamil area, Southwestern Egypt	225
•	WERNER SCHUCK An archaeological survey of the Selima Sandsheet, Sudan	237
•	STEFAN KRÖPELIN The Gilf Kebir and Lower Wadi Howar: contrasting Early and Mid-Holocene environments in the Eastern Sahara	249
III.	The Nile Delta, the Fayum and the Egyptian Nile Valley
•	JÜRGEN WUNDERLICH The natural conditions for Pre- and Early Dynastic settlement in the Western Nile Delta around Tell el-Fara'in, Buto	259
•	KLAUS SCHMIDT Comments to the lithic industry of the Buto-Maadi culture in Lower Egypt	267
•	EDWIN C.M. VAN DEN BRINK Settlement patterns in the Northeastern Nile Delta during the fourth-second millennia RC	279
•	HUIB E. DE WIT The evolution of the Eastern Nile Delta as a factor in the development of human culture	305
•	LECH KRZYŻANIAK New data on the late prehistoric settlement at Minshat Abu Omar, Eastern Nile Delta	321
•	JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI AND BOLESŁAW GINTER Holocene changes in the Fayum: Lake Moeris and the evolution of climate in Northeastern Africa	327
•	PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH AND ETIENNE PAULISSEN Palaeolithic chert quarrying and mining in Egypt	337
•	MARIA LITYŃSKA Plant remains from the Neolithic site at Armant: preliminary report	351
•	MACEJ PAWLIKOWSKI Mineralogy of the Nile Valley sediments as an indicator of changes of climate: the Armant - Luxor area, Upper Egypt	355
•	MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN AND JAMES O. MILLS Problems of assessing environmental impact on the Predynastic settlements of Hierakonpolis	359
IV.	The Sudan
•	BIRGIT KEDING Leiterband sites in the Wadi Howar, North Sudan	371
•	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?	381
•	LOUIS CHAIX AND ANNIE GRANT Palaeoenvironment and economy at Kerma, Northern Sudan, during the third millennium B.C.: archaeozoological and botanical evidence	399
•	ISABELLA CANEVA Pre-pastoral Middle Nile: local developments and Saharan contacts	405
•	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	413
•	KARIM SADR Environmental change and the development of nomadism in the East-Central Sudan	421
•	ANTHONY E. MARKS Climatic and cultural changes in the Southern Atbai, Sudan, from the fifth through the third millennium B.C.	431
•	RODOLFO FATIOVICH The Gash Group of the Eastern Sudan: an outline	439
V.	The Horn of Africa
•	BALDUR GABRIEL, BERND VOIGT AND MUMIN MOHAMUD GHOD Quaternary ecology in Northern Somalia: a preliminary field repor	449
•	MAURO COLTORTI AND MARGHERITA MUSSI Hunter-gatherers of the Middle Juba Valley, Southern Somalia, during the Early Holocene	459
VI.	Varia
•	MIECZYSŁAW F. PAZDUR AND DANUTA J. MICHCZYŃSKA Probabilistic calibration of radiocarbon dates with specific examples from Northeastern Africa	473
•	TSUYOSHI FUJIMOTO Studies of wear on grinding stones	485
•	MARIA CASINI Craft production in Lower Egypt during Late Predynastic times with special reference to Ma'ad	491