Lech Krzyżaniak,
Karla Kroeper,
Michał Kobusiewicz (eds.)

Poznań 1996

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

Barbara E. Barich, Cecilia Conati-Barbaro and Carlo Giraudi
The archaeology of Jebel Gharbi (Northwest Libya) and the Libyan sequence

37

Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Cultural areas and interregional relations: the case of the Egyptian
and Libyan theriomorphs

51

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

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

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

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

Rodolfo Fattovich
The Afro-Arabian circuit: contacts between the Horn of Africa
and Southern Arabia in the 3rd -2nd millennia B.C.

395

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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