Lech Krzyżaniak,
Michał Kobusiewicz
(eds.)

Late prehistory of the Nile Basin
and the Sahara

Poznań 1989
Table of Contents

 

From the Organizers and Editors
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9
List of Participants in the Symposium
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11
Opening Address (by Michał Kobusiewicz)
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17

 

I.
General themes
 

ALBERT J. AMMERMAN
The use of Landsat imagery for reconnaissance work in the Sahara
19

HUGH DOGGET
A suggested history of the crops common to Ethiopia and India
27

WILLEM VAN NEER
Fishing along the prehistoric Nile
49

KIMBALL M. BANKS
The sppearance and spread of cattle-keeping in Saharan North Africa
57

FRED WENDORF, ANGELA E. CLOSE and ROMUALD SCHILD
Early domestic cattle and scientific methodology
61

ANDREW B. SMITH
The Near Eastern connection: Early to Mid-Holocene
relations between North Africa and the Levant
69

ZOHEIR H. BABIKER
Correlations culturelles et problemes chronologiques
entre le Nil Soudanais et le Sahara
79

II.

Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt
 

PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH, ETIENNE PAULISSEN and WILLEM VAN NEER
The Late Palaeolithic Makhadma sites (Egypt): environment and subsistence
87

ANGELA E. CLOSE
Lithic development in the Kubbaniyan (Upper Egypt)
117

DOUGLAS J. BREWER
A model for resource exploitation in the prehistoric Fayum
127

ROBERT J. WENKE and MARIA CASINI
The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transition in Egypt’s Fayum Depression
139

JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI and BOLESŁAW GINTER
The Fayum Neolithic in the light of new discoveries
157

MACIEJ HENNEBERG, MICHAŁ KOBUSIBWICZ,
ROMUALD SCHILD and FRED WENDORF
The Early Neolithic, Quarunian burial from the Northern Fayum Desert (Egypt)
181

RUDOLPH KUPER
The Eastern Sahara from North to South:
data and dates from the B.O.S. Project
197

ERWIN CZIESLA
Sitra and related sites at the western border of Egypt
205

WERNER SCHOEN
New results from two playa-sites in the Gilf Kebir (Egypt)
215

FRANK KLEES
Lobo: a contribution to the prehistory of the eastern Sand Sea
and the Egyptian oase
223

IAN EDWARDS and COLIN A. HOPE
A note on the Neolithic ceramics from the Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt)
233

III.

Predynastic Egypt
 

DIANE L. HOLMES
Inter-regional variability in Egyptian Predynastic lithic assemblages
243

SAVA P. TUTUNDŻIĆ
The problem of foreign north-eastern relations of Upper Egypt,
particularly in Badarian period: an aspect
255

KRZYSZTOF M. CIAŁOWICZ
Predynastic mace-heads in the Nile Valley
261

LECH KRZYŻANIAK
Recent archaeological evidence on the earliest settlement
in the eastern Nile Delta
267

ISABELLA CANEVA, MARCELLA FRANGIPANE and ALBA PALMIERI
Recent excavations at Maadi (Egypt)
287

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
295

FEKRI A. HASSAN and RICHARD G. MATSON
Seriation of predynastic potsherds from the Nagada region (Upper Egypt)
303

MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN
A stratified Predynastic sequence from Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt)
317

JOANNA AKSAMIT
The gold handle of a fishtail dagger from Gebelein (Upper Egypt)
325

IV.

Egyptian varia
 

TADEUSZ DZIERŻYKRAY-ROGALSKI
Sur la paleodemographie de 1’oasis de Dakhleh (Egypte)
333

ALESSANDRA NIBBI
Some remarks on two very early but enduring symbols in ancient Egypt
339

V.

Late Palaeolithic, “Early Khartoum” and the Neolithic of the Sudan
 

ACHILLES GAUTIER
A general review of the known prehistoric faunas
of the Central Sudanese Nile Valley
353

RANDI HAALAND
The Late Neolithic culture-historical sequence in the Central Sudan
359

MAREK CHŁODNICKI
The petrographic analyses of the Neolithic pottery of Central Sudan
369

ISABELLA CANEVA
Typological notes: the Sudanese case
375

AHMED M. ALI HAKEM and ABDEL RAHIM M. KHABIR
Sarourab 2: a new contribution to the Early Khartoum tradition from Bauda site
381

J. DHSMOND CLARK
Shabona: an Early Khartoum settlement on the White Nile
387

VICTOR M. FERNANDEZ
A new Neolithic site near Khartoum
411

ELŻBIETA PROMINSKA
Anthropological examination of human remains from Geili (Ccntral Sudan)
417

WERNER SCHUCK
From lake to well: 5,000 years of settlement in Wadi Shaw (Northern Sudan)
421

JUERGEN RICHTER
Neolithic sites in the Wadi Howar (Western Sudan)
431

ANTHONY E. MARKS
The later prehistory of the Central Nile Valley:
a view from its Eastern Hinterlands
443

ANTHONY E. MARKS and RODOLFO FATTOVICH
The later prehistory of the Eastern Sudan: a preliminary view
451

ANWAR A. MAGID
Exploitation of plants in the Eastern Sahel (Sudan), 5,000 – 2,000 B.C.
459

JORIS PETERS
The faunal remains from several sites at Jebel Shaqadud (Central Sudan):
a preliminary report
469

ABBAS S. A. MOHAMMED-ALI and SUSAN E. JAEGER
The early ceramics of the Eastern Butana (Sudan)
473

RODOLFO FATTOVICH
The late Prehistory of the Gash Delta (Eastern Sudan)
481

VI.

The Terminal Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Sahara and the Magbreb
 

BARBARA E. BARICH
Uan Muhuggiag rock shelter (Tadrart Acacua)
and the late prehistory of the Libyan Sahara
449

THIERRY TILLET
La fin des temps paleolithiques dans le Bassin Tchadien nord-occidental
507

JAN JELINEK
Saharan Neolithic rock art
513

MARK MILBURN
Enigmatic stone objects of Saharan Neolithic and Post-Neolithic
547