Desert road archaeology in ancient Egypt and beyond
By: edited by Frank Förster & Heiko Riemer
Series: Africa praehistorica -- 27; Africa praehistorica -- 27.
Publisher: Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9783927688414
Subjects: Social archaeology; Landscape archaeology; Human ecology; Deserts; History; Land settlement; Antiquities
Other titles: Desert road archaeology
Notes: "The present volume ... compiles, for the first time, a network of ancient routes that open up the 'nowhere' of the deserts in and around Egypt."--Page 10.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient desert roads: towards establishing a new field of archaeological research / Heiko Riemer & Frank Förster; title: Top down: new satellite data and ground-truth data as base for a reconstruction of ancient caravan routes: examples from the Western Desert of Egypt / Olaf Bubenzer & Andreas Bolten; title: Lessons in landscape learning: the dawn of long-distance travel and navigation in Egypt's Western Desert from prehistoric to Old Kingdom times / Heiko Riemer; title: Desert travel and transport in ancient Egypt: an overview based on epigraphic, pictorial and archaeological evidence / Heidi Köpp; title: The realm of "two deserts": Siwah Oasis between east and west / Klaus Peter Kuhlmann; title: Footprints in the sand: recent long-distance camel trade in the Libyan Desert (northeast Chad/southeast Libya) / Meike Meerpohl; title: Donkeys to El-Fasher or how the present informs the past / Frank Förster, Heiko Riemer & Moez Mahir, with an appendix by Frank Darius; title: The Girga Road: Abu Ziyâr, Tundaba, and the integration of the southern oases into the Pharaonic state / John Coleman Darnell, with the assistance of Deborah Darnell; title: Evidence of desert routes across northern Kharga (Egypt's Western Desert) / Corinna Rossi & Salima Ikram; title: Broadening horizons: distant places and travels in Dakhla and the Western Desert at the end of the 3rd millennium / Laure Pantalacci; title: Beyond Dakhla: the Abu Ballas Trail in the Libyan Desert (SW Egypt) / Frank Förster; title: The Pharaonic potter of the Abu Ballas Trail: 'filling stations' along a desert highway in southwestern Egypt / Stan Hendrickx, Frank Förster & Merel Eyckerman; title: Prehistoric trails in the environs of Karkur Talh, Jebel Uweinat / András Zboray; title: Donkeys and water: demotic ostraca in Cologne as evidence for desert travel between Oxyrhynchos and the Bahariya Oasis in the 2nd century BC / Heinz-Josef Thissen; title: Ancient desert and quarry roads on the west bank of the Nile in the First Cataract region / Per Storemyr, Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal & Adel Kelany; title: Tracks in the Bayuda desert: the project 'Wadi Abu Dom Itinerary' (W.A.D.I.) / Angelika Lohwasser; title: A stroll along the corniche?: coastal routes between the Nile Delta and Cyrenaica in the Late Bronze Age / Steven Snape; title: Water, routes and rangelands: ancient traffic and grazing infrastructure in the eastern Marmarica (northwestern Egypt) / Thomas Vetter, Anna-Katharina Rieger & Heike Möller; title: "A highway out of Egypt": the main road from Egypt to Canaan / James K. Hoffmeier & Stephen O. Moshier; title: A road to the Arabian Peninsula in the reign of Ramesses III / Claire Somaglino & Pierre Taller; title: "We went forth into the desert land...": retracing the routes between the Nile Valley and the Hatnub travertine quarries / Ian Shaw; title: The ancient harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis and how to get there: new evidence of Pharaonic seafaring expeditions in the Red Sea / Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich & Andrea Manzo; title: Communication, travel, and transportation in Egypt's Eastern Desert during Roman times (1st to 3rd century AD) / Adam Bülow-Jacobsen.