HOLOCENE PREHISTORIC SEQUENCE

01. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-90-5867-663-4
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 750 g

Reihe: Egyptian Prehistory Monographs

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The prehistory of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is not well understood. A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Epi-Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Predynastic occupation of the area. It presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 bp and continues until about 5000 bp. The archaeological material attests clear connections with the Nile Valley and the Western Desert during the wet Holocene period. Topics covered in the book include the site’s lithics and ceramics, microwear analysis of the lithic artefacts, and the woody vegetation of the Neolithic period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vermeersch, Pierre M.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. FIELD WORK

1.1 Research history

1.2 Physical environmental context

1.3 Stratigraphy

1.4 Raw material

1.5 Archaeological stratigraphy

1.6 Charcoal and 1C dating



2. MICROWEAR ANALYSIS OF SOME ARTEFACTS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL HORIZON 5

2.1 Microwear Experimentation and Observation

2.2 Observation results

2.3 Comparison with contemporaneous Elkabian tools

2.4 Conclusion



3. WOODY VEGETATION AND ITS USE DURING THE NEOLITHIC AT THE TREE SHELTER

3.1 Methods and materials

3.2 Results

3.3 Reconstruction of the vegetation based on the wood charcoal assemblages

3.4 What can wood charcoal assemblages say about the palaeoenvironmental conditions?

3.5 Palaeoeconomic implications of the boanical materials studied from the site

3.3 Conclusion



4. FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TREE SHELTER

4.1 The Elkabian (AH5) - hunting and gathering

4.2 The Neolithic (AH2 and AH3) and the younger period (AH1) - early African small liverstock



5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

5.1 The timing of depositional and erosional events

5.2 The palaeoenvironmental context of the Tree shelter

5.3 Local and regional comparison

5.4 General conclusion



6. REFERENCES

Über Autor(innen)

Vermeersch, Pierre M.
Pierre Vermeersch is Professor of Prehistory at KU Leuven.