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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, Volume 15). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.830

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https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.830
ISBN 978-3-96929-032-3 (PDF)

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02/18/2021
The print publication was published 2014 in Poznan Archaeological Museum, Poznan, ISBN 978-83-60109-60-1.

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Authors

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

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.

Chapters

Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
Table of Contents
5-8
Preface
Romuald Schild
Fred Wendorf, Jr. 31 July 1924 – 15 July 2015
The Founder of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition and for Several Decades its Guiding Spirit
15-26
Scott Wendorf, Elizabeth Alexander, Anna Christine Bednar
The Combined Prehistoric Expedition Foundation: a Model for Private Support of Archaeological Research
27-33
Gail Wendorf, Jacek Kabaciński
Fred Wendorf’s Life in Sixteen Photos
35-43
Ahmed Hammid Nassr
Early Stone Age Tools Variability in the Nile Basin: a New Investigation in the Eastern Desert of Lower Atbara River, Sudan
47-70
Sandro Salvatori, Donatella Usai, Andrea Zerboni
New Evidence from the Prehistoric sites at Al Khiday and Al Jamrab, Central Sudan
71-94
Kimball M. Banks, Donatella Usai, J. Signe Snortland, Linda Scott Cummings, Maria C. Gatto
Food for Thought: the Late Paleolithic of WK26 Site, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt
95-108
Annett Dittrich
Between Two Rivers – Early Holocene Landscapes on Mograt Island (Sudan)
109-152
Elena A. A. Garcea, Giulia D’Ercole
What Do We See When We See a Decoration?
An overview on the pottery from Sai Island and Esh Shaheinab
153-181
Mohammed Alfatih Hayati
Technical Characteristics of the Mesolithic Pottery in El Goz sites (Central Sudan)
183-191
Lenka Varadzinová, Ladislav Varadzin, Lenka Lisá, Jan Pacina, Petr Pokorný
Exploration of the Site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60), Jebel Sabaloka (West Bank): Findings of the 2014 Field Campaign
193-205
Attila Király
Digital Data and Holocene Lithic Industries in the Sudanese Nile Valley: a Case Study
207-231
Louis Chaix, Jacques Reinold
Animals in Neolithic Graves: Kadruka and Kadada (Northern and Central Sudan)
233-249
Hassan Mustafa Alkhidir
Jebel El-Khazna – a Late Prehistoric Site in the Fifth Cataract Area
251-260
Agnieszka Mączyńska
On the Transition Between the Neolithic and Chalcolithic in Lower Egypt and the Origins of the Lower Egyptian Culture: a Pottery Study
261-287
Dorian Vanhulle
Preliminary Observations on Some Naqadian Boat Models
A Glimpse of a Discrete Ideological Process in pre-pharaonic arts
289-312
Ulrich Hartung
Cemetery U at Umm el-Qaab and the Funeral Landscape of the Abydos Region in the 4th Millennium BC
313-335
Taichi Kuronuma
Goods Placement in Predynastic Burials: A Case Study from the Cemeteries in the Naqada Region
339-363
Grazia A. Di Pietro
Investigating Intra- and Inter-site Variability of Late Predynastic – Protodynastic Settlements of Egypt
365-386
Wojciech Ejsmond
Gebelein in the Predynastic Period: Capital or Provincial Centre?
Review of Evidence
387-405
Robert Kuhn
A Wooden Statue and Early Bronze Objects?
A Critical Review of Tomb 1052 in the Necropolis of Abusir el-Meleq
407-417
Natalia Małecka-Drozd
The Old Kingdom Upcountry Settlement Aarchitecture in the Nile Delta – the Case of the 3rd-4th Dynasty Building at Tell el-Murra
419-435
Marek Chłodnicki, Krzysztof Grzymski
Kerma Culture in Letti Basin (Dongola Reach)
437-450
Maira Torcia
Towards Upper Egypt: Items and Cultural Elements on Trade Routes
451-467
Bashier Negood Hassan
The Nile as the Main Traffic Artery in the Ancient Sudan
469-472
Ikram Madani, Petr Pokorný, Yahia F. Tahir, Hamad M. Hamdeen, Adéla Pokorná
Vegetation Mounds in El-Ga’ab Depression (Sudan): Their Significance in Archaeology and Archeaobotany
473-479
Michał Kobusiewicz, Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka, Marek Chłodnicki
Gebel Karaiweb and Bir Nurayet (Sudan)
The Oldest Settlement in the Red Sea Mountains
483-514
Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Joel D. Irish, Jacek Kabaciński, Jakub Mugaj
The Neolithic Settlements by a Paleo-lake of Gebel Ramlah, Western Desert of Egypt
515-538
Hebatallah A. A. Ibrahim
Neolithic Aspects of the Western Desert and its Possible Role During the Following Time Periods in Egypt
539-550
Maria Lityńska-Zając, Krystyna Wasylikowa
The Role of Ziziphus in the Economy of Neolithic Nomadic Societies of the Sahara (S Egypt)
551-560
Friederike Jesse, Nader El-Hassanin, Hubert Berke, Nadja Pöllath
First Insights into the Prehistory of Selima Oasis, Northern Sudan – Excavations at Site SOP 1024
561-582
Simon Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, Joshua Emmitt, Willeke Wendrich
E29G1 Revisited: the Current State of the Surface Archaeology of Western Regions of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt
583-602
Noriyuki Shirai
New Light on The Desert Fayum: Restudying Gertrude Caton-Thompson’s Fayum Lithic Collections in London
603-619
Friederike Jesse, Mirosław Masojć
Early to Mid–Holocene Pottery from Two Sites in the Bayuda Desert, Sudan
621-634
Alain Anselin
Archaeology of the Images and the Words of the Ancient Egyptian World: from Pools of Gone Saharan Cultures to Current Sociological Parallels
635-668
Miroslav Bárta
The Birth of Supernatural
On the Genesis of Some Later Ancient Egyptian Concepts
669-685
Paweł Lech Polkowski
A Giraffe’s Tale
On Enigmatic Composition from Site 04/08 in the Central Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
687-706
András Zboray
The Petroglyphs of Jebel Uweinat
Many Questions and a Few Answers…
707-733
List of volume contributors
735-740

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