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