The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert
By: edited by Hans Barnard and Kim Duistermaat
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Subjects: Congresses; Desert people; Excavations (Archaeology); Roman Antiquities; Antiquities; History
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 25-27, 2008 at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.
Table of contents: title: Part I. 1. Introduction to Part 1: From Adam to Alexander (500,000-2500 years ago) / H. Barnard; title: 2. Contributions to the prehistory of the Eastern Desert, Egypt / P.M. Vermeersch; title: 3. The holocene prehistory of the Nubian Eastern Desert / M.C. Gatto; title: 4. The journey to the rock art gallery of Bir Nurayet (Sudan) / K. Pluskota; title: 5. Boat petroglyphs in Egypt's Central Eastern Desert / F. Lankester; title: 6. Nomads at the Nile: towards an archaeology of interaction / C. Nøser; title: 7. Gods in the Red Land: development of cults and religious activities in the Eastern Desert / A.D. Espinel; title: 8. Sinai in Egyptian, Levantine and Hebrew (Biblical) perspectives / J.K. Hoffmeier; title: 9. Vegetation and management regime continuity in the cultural landscape of the Eastern Desert / G.L. Andersen; title: 10. The Eastern Desert tombs and cultural continuity / K. Krzywinski; title: 11. The desert dwellers of Marmarica, Western Desert: second millennium BCE to first millennium CE / A.-K. Rieger, T. Vetter and H. Møller; title: Part II. 12. Introduction to Part 2: the last 2500 years / H. Barnard; title: 13. The Eastern Desert during the Ptolemaic period: an emerging picture / J. Gates-Foster; title: 14. Nabataeans in the Eastern Desert during the Roman period / R.Z. Mohamed; title: 15. Roman gold mining in the Eastern desert: the mining settlement in Wadi Bakariya / B.J.M. Tratsaert; title: 16. A Blemmy by any other name...: a study in Greek ethnography / R.H. Pierce; title: 17. Blemmyes, Noubades and the Eastern Desert in late antiquity: reassessing the written sources / J.H.F. Dijkstra; title: 18. On the archaeology of the native population of the Eastern Desert in the first-seventh centuries CE / G. Lassønyi; title: 19. Results of recent mass spectrometric research of Eastern Desert ware (4th-6th centuries CE) / H. Barnard; title: 20. "You shall not see the tribes of the Blemmyes or of the Saracens": on the other 'barbarians' of the late Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt / T. Power; title: 21. Invisible monks, human eyes and the Egyptian desert in late antique hagiography / K.M. Klein; title: 22. Desert imagery: Bedouin, monks, demons and hermits around Saint Anthony's monastery / J.C.M. Starkey; title: 23. Nomadism and the monastic life in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / M. Jones; title: 24. Towards variability: cultural diversity in economic strategies of Beja peoples / P. Weschenfelder; title: 25. The documentation of the cultural heritage of the Bedouin of South Sinai: a pilot study in Serabit al-Khadim / M. Hanna, F. Keshk and S. Aboubakr; title: 26. Nominating Suakin a World Heritage Site / M.D.S. Mallinson; title: 27. The establishment of a transboundary biosphere reserve in Wadi Allaqi, Egypt / M. al-Aawah and C. De Simone; title: 28. Beja innovation and responses to environmental change in the southeastern desert of Egypt / A. Roe; title: 29. Giving a voice to the Ababda / M. Abdel-Qadr, W.Z. Wendrich, Z. Kosc and H. Barnard; title: 30. Sustainable desert tourism: a tool for competition / S.B. Hassan; title: 31. Concluding remarks / J.L. Bintliff and H. Barnard.