I.  | 
    Northeastern Africa 
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 Andrea Manzo 
Social complexity and cultural contacts in Northeastern Africa  
between 3000 and 1000 B.C.: a provisional model   | 
    15  | 
  
  
    
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 Andrew B. Smith 
The Near Eastern connection II: cultural contacts with the Nile Delta  and the Sahara  | 
    29  | 
  
   
  
    
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      North African littoral and the Sahara  | 
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 Barbara E. Barich, Cecilia Conati-Barbaro and Carlo Giraudi 
The archaeology of Jebel Gharbi (Northwest Libya) and the Libyan sequence  | 
    37  | 
  
  
    
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 Jean-Loïc Le Quellec 
Cultural areas and interregional relations: the case of the Egyptian 
 and Libyan theriomorphs  | 
    51  | 
  
     
  
    
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  Eastern Sahara  | 
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 Hala Barakat 
Anthracological studies in the Northeastern Sahara: methodology 
 and preliminary results from the Nabta Playa  | 
    61  | 
  
  
    
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 Barbara E. Barich, Fekri A. Hassan and Alessandra A. Stoppiello 
Farafra Oasis between the Sahara and the Nile  | 
    71  | 
  
  
    
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 Rudolph Kuper 
Between the Oases and the Nile - Djara: Rohlfs' Cave in the Western Desert  | 
    81  | 
  
  
    
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 Mary M. A. McDonald 
Relations between Dakhleh Oasis and the Nile Valley in the Mid-Holocene: 
 a discussion  | 
    93  | 
  
  
    
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 Romuald Schild, Halina Królik, Fred Wendorf and Angela E. Close 
Architecture of Early Neolithic huts at Nabta Playa  | 
    101  | 
  
 
    
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 Werner Schön 
The Late Neolithic of Gilf Kebir: evolution and relations  | 
    115  | 
  
  
    
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 Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Nieves Zedeno 
A Late Neolithic megalith complex in the Eastern Sahara: a preliminary report  | 
    125  | 
  
   
  
    
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 The Nile Delta and the Egyptian Nile Valley  | 
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 Barbara Adams  
Imports and imitations in Predynastic funerary contexts at Hierakonpolis  | 
    133  | 
  
  
    
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 Kathryn A. Bard 
The Predynastic site of Halfiah Gibli, Upper Egypt, and interconnections 
 within the Nagada network  | 
    145  | 
  
  
    
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 Chris Ellis 
Expressions of social status: a statistical approach to the Late 
 Predynastic/Early Dynastic cemeteries of Kafr Tarkhan  | 
    151  | 
  
  
    
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 Bolesław Ginter, Janusz K. Kozłowski and Maciej Pawlikowski 
Raw material procurement in the Tarifian and in the Naqada Culture: 
 a case study from the Nile Valley in Upper Egypt  | 
    165  | 
  
  
    
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 Diane L. Holmes 
Recent investigations in the Badari region (Middle Egypt)  | 
    181  | 
  
  
    
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 Diane L. Holmes 
Lithic assemblages from Hierakonpolis and interregional relations 
 in Predynastic Egypt  | 
    193  | 
  
  
    
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 Shomarka O.Y. Keita 
Analysis of Nagada Predynastic crania: a brief report   | 
    203  | 
  
  
    
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 E. Christiana Köhler 
Evidence for interregional contacts between late prehistoric Lower 
 and Upper Egypt - a view from Buto  | 
    215  | 
  
  
    
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 Nancy C. Lovell and Andrew L. Johnson 
Human biological variation at Nagada: an analysis of dental morphological traits  | 
    227  | 
  
  
    
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 Beatrix Midant-Reynes 
The Predynastic site of Adaima (Upper Egypt)  | 
    237  | 
  
 
    
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 Mohamed Adel M. Abd el-Moneim 
Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic cemetery of Beni Amir (Eastern Delta)  | 
    241  | 
  
 
    
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 Mohamed Adel M. Abd el-Moneim 
Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic mound of Beni Amir (Eastern Delta)  | 
    253  | 
  
  
    
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 Mohamed Ibrahim Bakr, Mohamed Adel Abd el-Moneim  and Mahmoud Omar M. Selim 
Protodynastic excavations at Tell Hassan Dawud (Eastern Delta)  | 
    277  | 
  
 
    
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 Klaus Schmidt (with an Addendum by Ernst Pernicka) 
Lower and Upper Egypt in the Chalcolithic Period. Evidence of the lithic 
 industries: a view from Buto  | 
    279  | 
  
  
    
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 Ursula Thanheiser 
Local crop production versus import of cereals during the Predynastic Period  in the Nile Delta  | 
    291  | 
  
   
 
    
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 The Sinai  | 
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 Isabella Caneva 
Survey in northwestern Sinai  | 
    303  | 
  
  
    
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 Ram Gophna 
Observations on the earliest phase of relations between Egypt and Canaan 
 during the Early Bronze Age  | 
    311  | 
  
   
  
    
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 The Sudan  | 
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 Isabella Caneva 
Post-Shaheinab Neolithic remains at Geili  | 
     315  | 
  
  
    
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 Elena A. A. Garcea 
Cultural developments in the final hunting-gathering horizons 
 in the Middle and Upper Nile Valley   | 
    321  | 
  
   
    
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 Maria C. Gatto and F. Tiraterra 
Contacts between the Nubian "A-Groups" and Predynastic Egypt  | 
    331  | 
  
 
    
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 Alfredo Jimeno, Victor M. Fermindez, Mario Menendez and Javier Lario 
The Mesolithic/Neolithic of the Blue Nile (east bank) : chronological seriation 
 and settlement patterns  | 
    335  | 
  
  
    
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 Michał Kobusiewicz 
Technology, goals and efficiency of quartz exploitation in the 
 Khartoum Neolithic: the case of Kadero  | 
    347  | 
  
  
    
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 Michał Kobusiewicz and Jacek Kabaciński 
Jebel Kobkabba: a Middle Palaeolithic site in Sudanese Nubia  | 
    355  | 
  
 
    
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 Mahmoud el- Tayeb Mahmoud 
Neolithic sites on the White Nile  | 
    377  | 
  
  
    
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 Joris Peters 
New light on Mesolithic resource scheduling and site inhabitation 
 in Central Sudan  | 
    381  | 
  
 
    
 VII.  | 
    
  The Horn of Africa  | 
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 Rodolfo Fattovich 
The Afro-Arabian circuit: contacts between the Horn of Africa 
 and Southern Arabia in the 3rd -2nd millennia B.C.   | 
    395  | 
  
   
    
 VIII.  | 
    
  Varia  | 
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 Tsuyoshi Fujimoto 
Experiments in grinding cereals  | 
    403  | 
  
  
    
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 Stan Hendrickx 
Considerations on the "Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early 
 Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan"  | 
    409  | 
  
  
    
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 Eric Huysecom 
Iron Age terracotta pestles in the Sahel area: an ethnoarchaeological approach  | 
    419  | 
  
  
    
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 Jacke Phillips 
Aegypto-Aegean relations up to the 2nd millennium B.C.  | 
    459  | 
  
  
    
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 Purushottam Singh 
The origin and dispersal of millet cultivation in India  | 
    471  | 
  
 
    
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 Suzanne M. M. Young 
Archaeometric analysis of copper swords from Kerma, Nubia  | 
    475  | 
  
 
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 Alphabetical List of Authors  | 
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