Desert and the Nile. Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara

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Kabaciński, Jacek et al. (Eds.): Desert and the Nile. Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara : Papers in honour of Fred Wendorf , Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2021 (Studies in African Archaeology, Vol. 15). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.830

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ISBN 978-3-96929-032-3 (PDF)

Published 18.02.2021.

The print publication was published 2014 in Poznan Archaeological Museum, Poznan, ISBN 978-83-60109-60-1.

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Preface

Fred Wendorf, Jr. 31 July 1924 – 15 July 2015

The Combined Prehistoric Expedition Foundation: a Model for Private Support of Archaeological Research

Fred Wendorf’s Life in Sixteen Photos

Early Stone Age Tools Variability in the Nile Basin: a New Investigation in the Eastern Desert of Lower Atbara River, Sudan

New Evidence from the Prehistoric sites at Al Khiday and Al Jamrab, Central Sudan

Food for Thought: the Late Paleolithic of WK26 Site, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt

Between Two Rivers – Early Holocene Landscapes on Mograt Island (Sudan)

What Do We See When We See a Decoration?

Technical Characteristics of the Mesolithic Pottery in El Goz sites (Central Sudan)

Exploration of the Site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60), Jebel Sabaloka (West Bank): Findings of the 2014 Field Campaign

Digital Data and Holocene Lithic Industries in the Sudanese Nile Valley: a Case Study

Animals in Neolithic Graves: Kadruka and Kadada (Northern and Central Sudan)

Jebel El-Khazna – a Late Prehistoric Site in the Fifth Cataract Area

On the Transition Between the Neolithic and Chalcolithic in Lower Egypt and the Origins of the Lower Egyptian Culture: a Pottery Study

Preliminary Observations on Some Naqadian Boat Models

Cemetery U at Umm el-Qaab and the Funeral Landscape of the Abydos Region in the 4th Millennium BC

Goods Placement in Predynastic Burials: A Case Study from the Cemeteries in the Naqada Region

Investigating Intra- and Inter-site Variability of Late Predynastic – Protodynastic Settlements of Egypt

Gebelein in the Predynastic Period: Capital or Provincial Centre?

A Wooden Statue and Early Bronze Objects?

The Old Kingdom Upcountry Settlement Aarchitecture in the Nile Delta – the Case of the 3rd-4th Dynasty Building at Tell el-Murra

Kerma Culture in Letti Basin (Dongola Reach)

Towards Upper Egypt: Items and Cultural Elements on Trade Routes

The Nile as the Main Traffic Artery in the Ancient Sudan

Vegetation Mounds in El-Ga’ab Depression (Sudan): Their Significance in Archaeology and Archeaobotany

Gebel Karaiweb and Bir Nurayet (Sudan)

The Neolithic Settlements by a Paleo-lake of Gebel Ramlah, Western Desert of Egypt

Neolithic Aspects of the Western Desert and its Possible Role During the Following Time Periods in Egypt

The Role of Ziziphus in the Economy of Neolithic Nomadic Societies of the Sahara (S Egypt)

First Insights into the Prehistory of Selima Oasis, Northern Sudan – Excavations at Site SOP 1024

E29G1 Revisited: the Current State of the Surface Archaeology of Western Regions of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt

New Light on The Desert Fayum: Restudying Gertrude Caton-Thompson’s Fayum Lithic Collections in London

Early to Mid–Holocene Pottery from Two Sites in the Bayuda Desert, Sudan

Archaeology of the Images and the Words of the Ancient Egyptian World: from Pools of Gone Saharan Cultures to Current Sociological Parallels

The Birth of Supernatural

A Giraffe’s Tale

The Petroglyphs of Jebel Uweinat

List of volume contributors

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Jacek Kabaciński, Marek Chłodnicki, Michał Kobusiewicz and Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska (Eds.)

Desert and the Nile. Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara

Papers in honour of Fred Wendorf

Studies in African Archaeology

Proceedings of the 10th African Conference in Poznań, July 1-5, 2015.