num_pages: 276
description: This book explores the interaction between animals plants and humans in ancient Egypt. It draws together different aspects of the bioarchaeology of flora fauna and human remains. These come from sites throughout the country from Alexandria to Aswan as well as material from museum basements.The material presented here includes the results of new and previously unpublished excavations in the Delta and Thebes in-depth studies of different species of animal mummies an analysis of animal cults tentative identifications of wild dogs in Egyptian art a variety of diseases from which the ancient Egyptians suffered studies on human remains using traditional as well as state-of-the-art technologies and the different foods that formed the diet of the ancient Egyptians.The studies blend traditional methodologies often deployed in novel ways such as examining the pelage of lions as well as new 3D technologies used in the analyses of bioarchaeological material. The results of these studies deepen our knowledge of ancient Egypt its inhabitants and their interaction with their environment.The present volume is the proceedings of the Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt &amp; the Second International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt (Cairo 2019).Table of ContentsCuratorial Training in Human Remains for the Egyptian Museum Cairo.Hasnaa Askalany &amp; Gehad Shawky IbrahemHyperostosis frontalis interna in the Early Dynastic Period at Abydos Egypt.Brenda J. Baker &amp; Ahmed Mohamed GabrHumans and Animals together in the Journey to the Afterlife. The Burial in Area R11 under the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II Luxor West Thebes  Italian Archaeological Project.Fabio Bona Giovanna Bellandi Letizia Cavallini Anna Consonni Tommaso Quirino &amp; Angelo SesanaTo Be or Not to Be a Dog How a Metric Study of the Skull can Inform on Selection Practices Pertaining to Canid Mummification in Ancient Egypt.Colline Brassard Stphanie Porcier &amp; Ccile CallouNewcomers in the Bestiary. A Review of the Presence of Lycaon pictus in Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Environment and Iconography.Axelle BrmontDvots et animaux sacrs.Alain CharronTuberculosis at Tell-el A Theoretical Exercise in the Economic and Social Effects of Chronic Terminal Disease in Ancient Egypt.Gretchen R. DabbsBurial Practices in the West Cases from Kom Aziza.Shereen El-Morsi &amp; Aya M. SalemA Structure-from-Motion Pipeline for Bone Morphology 3D Analysis.Margaret Farmer &amp; Angelique CorthalsLions and Science and Whorls Oh My!Karen Polinger FosterHuman and Faunal Remains in A New Department and a New Approach.Zeinab Hashesh &amp; Ahmed GabrCreatures of the Sun Creatures of the Animal Mummies from Lisbons National Archaeological Museum.Salima Ikram Carlos Prates Sandra Sousa &amp; Carlos OliveiraBrief Notes about a Mummified Crocodile from the National Archaeological Museum (MANN) of Naples Italy.Ilaria Incordino &amp; Cinzia OlivaFaunal Remains at the Causeway of Sahura.Mohamed Ismail Khaled &amp; Mohamed Hussein AhmedVenerunt Viderunt The Roman Conquest and the Non-Elite.Jessica KaiserIinteractions Between Teeth and Their A Study of the Effect on Age Estimation.Casey L. KirkpatrickDiscovery of an Unexpected Textile Fiber in a Fish Mummy from the Muse des Conflunces (Lyon) Collection.Fleur Letellier-WilleminWomens Health Issues Reflected in Case Studies from Theban Tomb 16.Suzanne Onstine Jesus Herrern Miguel Sanchez &amp; Rosa DinarsAnalyse des gazelles momifies de Kom Mereh/Komir (Haute Egypte) conserves au Muse des Confluences (Lyon France).Stphanie Porcies &amp; Louis ChaixDid Egyptians Eat Donkeys? Reflections from Historical and Archaeological Data.Mathilde Prvost &amp; Josphine LesurWhat I Have Assumptions Bad Intersections Good.Richard W. ReddingBiomolecular Stable Isotope and Carbon-14 Dates of Ancient Egyptian Food A Case Study from a Provincial Cemetery of Deir el-Ballas.Amr Khalaf Shahat &amp; Victoria JensenAnimal Butchering Technology in Old and Middle Kingdom The Shift from Stone to Metal Tools.Eleuterio Sousa &amp; Haskel J. GreenfieldAnthropological Study of the Egyptian Mummy from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Using Computed Tomography.Sergey Vasilyev E.B. Yatsishina R.M. Galeev S.B. Borustkaya M.V. Kovalchuk O.A. Vasilieva O.P. Dyuzheva &amp; V.L. UshakovIntentionally Burnt Human Remains from the Kom Ombo Temple Salvage Excavation.Afaf Wahba
language: English
title: The Ancient Egyptians and the Natural World: Flora, Fauna, and Science
publisher: Sidestone Press