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  Lech Krzyżaniak, 
Michał Kobusiewicz (eds.)  Late prehistory of the Nile Basin 
and the Sahara 
 Poznań 1989 
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 Table of Contents
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 From the Organizers and Editors 
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 List of Participants in the Symposium 
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 Opening Address (by Michał Kobusiewicz) 
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 I. 
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 General themes 
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 ALBERT J. AMMERMAN 
The use of Landsat imagery for reconnaissance work in the Sahara  | 
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 HUGH DOGGET 
A suggested history of the crops common to Ethiopia and India  | 
 27 
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 WILLEM VAN NEER 
Fishing along the prehistoric Nile  | 
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 KIMBALL M. BANKS 
The sppearance and spread of cattle-keeping in Saharan North Africa  | 
 57 
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 FRED WENDORF, ANGELA E. CLOSE and ROMUALD SCHILD 
Early domestic cattle and scientific methodology  | 
 61 
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 ANDREW B. SMITH 
The Near Eastern connection: Early to Mid-Holocene relations between North Africa and the Levant  | 
 69 
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 ZOHEIR H. BABIKER 
Correlations culturelles et problemes chronologiques entre le Nil Soudanais et le Sahara  | 
 79 
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 Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt 
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 PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH, ETIENNE PAULISSEN and WILLEM VAN NEER 
The Late Palaeolithic Makhadma sites (Egypt): environment and subsistence  | 
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 ANGELA E. CLOSE 
Lithic development in the Kubbaniyan (Upper Egypt)  | 
 117 
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 DOUGLAS J. BREWER 
A model for resource exploitation in the prehistoric Fayum  | 
 127 
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 ROBERT J. WENKE and MARIA CASINI 
The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transition in Egypt’s Fayum Depression  | 
 139 
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 JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI and BOLESŁAW GINTER 
The Fayum Neolithic in the light of new discoveries  | 
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 MACIEJ HENNEBERG, MICHAŁ KOBUSIBWICZ, 
ROMUALD SCHILD and FRED WENDORF The Early Neolithic, Quarunian burial from the Northern Fayum Desert (Egypt)  | 
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 RUDOLPH KUPER 
The Eastern Sahara from North to South: data and dates from the B.O.S. Project  | 
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 ERWIN CZIESLA 
Sitra and related sites at the western border of Egypt  | 
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 WERNER SCHOEN 
New results from two playa-sites in the Gilf Kebir (Egypt)  | 
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 FRANK KLEES 
Lobo: a contribution to the prehistory of the eastern Sand Sea and the Egyptian oase  | 
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 IAN EDWARDS and COLIN A. HOPE 
A note on the Neolithic ceramics from the Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt)  | 
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 Predynastic Egypt 
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 DIANE L. HOLMES 
Inter-regional variability in Egyptian Predynastic lithic assemblages  | 
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 SAVA P. TUTUNDŻIĆ 
The problem of foreign north-eastern relations of Upper Egypt, particularly in Badarian period: an aspect  | 
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 KRZYSZTOF M. CIAŁOWICZ 
Predynastic mace-heads in the Nile Valley  | 
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 LECH KRZYŻANIAK 
Recent archaeological evidence on the earliest settlement in the eastern Nile Delta  | 
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 ISABELLA CANEVA, MARCELLA FRANGIPANE and ALBA PALMIERI 
Recent excavations at Maadi (Egypt)  | 
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 CLAUDIO BAROCAS, RODOLFO FATTOVICH and MAURIZIO TOSI 
The Oriental Institute of Naples expedition to Petrie’s South Town (Upper Egypt), 1977-1983: an interim report  | 
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 FEKRI A. HASSAN and RICHARD G. MATSON 
Seriation of predynastic potsherds from the Nagada region (Upper Egypt)  | 
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 MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN 
A stratified Predynastic sequence from Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt)  | 
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 JOANNA AKSAMIT 
The gold handle of a fishtail dagger from Gebelein (Upper Egypt)  | 
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 Egyptian varia 
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 TADEUSZ DZIERŻYKRAY-ROGALSKI 
Sur la paleodemographie de 1’oasis de Dakhleh (Egypte)  | 
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 ALESSANDRA NIBBI 
Some remarks on two very early but enduring symbols in ancient Egypt  | 
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 Late Palaeolithic, “Early Khartoum” and the Neolithic of the Sudan 
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 ACHILLES GAUTIER 
A general review of the known prehistoric faunas of the Central Sudanese Nile Valley  | 
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 RANDI HAALAND 
The Late Neolithic culture-historical sequence in the Central Sudan  | 
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 MAREK CHŁODNICKI 
The petrographic analyses of the Neolithic pottery of Central Sudan  | 
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 ISABELLA CANEVA 
Typological notes: the Sudanese case  | 
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 AHMED M. ALI HAKEM and ABDEL RAHIM M. KHABIR 
Sarourab 2: a new contribution to the Early Khartoum tradition from Bauda site  | 
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 J. DHSMOND CLARK 
Shabona: an Early Khartoum settlement on the White Nile  | 
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 VICTOR M. FERNANDEZ 
A new Neolithic site near Khartoum  | 
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 ELŻBIETA PROMINSKA 
Anthropological examination of human remains from Geili (Ccntral Sudan)  | 
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 WERNER SCHUCK 
From lake to well: 5,000 years of settlement in Wadi Shaw (Northern Sudan)  | 
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 JUERGEN RICHTER 
Neolithic sites in the Wadi Howar (Western Sudan)  | 
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 ANTHONY E. MARKS 
The later prehistory of the Central Nile Valley: a view from its Eastern Hinterlands  | 
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 ANTHONY E. MARKS and RODOLFO FATTOVICH 
The later prehistory of the Eastern Sudan: a preliminary view  | 
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 ANWAR A. MAGID 
Exploitation of plants in the Eastern Sahel (Sudan), 5,000 – 2,000 B.C.  | 
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 JORIS PETERS 
The faunal remains from several sites at Jebel Shaqadud (Central Sudan): a preliminary report  | 
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 ABBAS S. A. MOHAMMED-ALI and SUSAN E. JAEGER 
The early ceramics of the Eastern Butana (Sudan)  | 
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 RODOLFO FATTOVICH 
The late Prehistory of the Gash Delta (Eastern Sudan)  | 
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 The Terminal Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Sahara and the Magbreb 
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 BARBARA E. BARICH 
Uan Muhuggiag rock shelter (Tadrart Acacua) and the late prehistory of the Libyan Sahara  | 
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 THIERRY TILLET 
La fin des temps paleolithiques dans le Bassin Tchadien nord-occidental  | 
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 JAN JELINEK 
Saharan Neolithic rock art  | 
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 MARK MILBURN 
Enigmatic stone objects of Saharan Neolithic and Post-Neolithic  | 
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