Egypt and Nubia
Subtitle: gifts of the desert
By: edited by Renée Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Renée F.
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Egypt -- Western Desert -- Congresses.; Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Egypt -- Eastern Desert -- Congresses.; Western Desert (Egypt) -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Eastern Desert (Egypt) -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Nubia -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Based on an international colloquium held in the British Museum in 1998.
Table of contents: title: Routes and roots in Egypt's western desert: the early Holocene resettlement of the eastern Sahara; title: Implications of incipient social complexity in the late Neolithic in the Egyptian Sahara; title: Palaeo-ecologic and palaeo-climatic background to socio-economic changes in the south western desert of Egypt; title: Human responses to Holocene environmental changes in the northern Dongola Reach of the Nile, Sudan; title: Early and mid-Holocene ceramics from the Dakhleh Oasis: traditions and influences; title: Early and mid-Holocene ceramics from the Dakhleh Oasis: macroscopic, petrographic and technological descriptions; title: Another Old Kingdom site in the Dakhleh Oasis; title: Policing the desert: Old Kingdom activity around the Dakhleh Oasis; title: Oases amphorae of the New Kingdom; title: Opening the narrow doors of the desert: discoveries of the Theban Desert road survey; title: Gravel of the desert and broken pots in the road: ceramic evidence from the routes between the Nile and Kharga Oasis; title: A 'Tasian' Tomb in Egypt's eastern desert; title: Cosmology, ideology and personal religious practice in ancient Egyptian rock art; title: The deserts and the fifteenth and sixteenth upper Egyptian nomes during the Middle Kingdom; title: Ancient gold mining in the eastern desert of Egypt and the Nubian desert of Sudan; title: Pharaonic stone quarries in the Egyptian deserts; title: Life on the edge: gemstones, politics and stress in the deserts of Egypt and Nubia; title: On the antiquities of the eastern desert.