Author: Gertrude Caton ThompsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Desert Fayum, &c
Author: Gertrude Caton ThompsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated
Author: Simon J. HoldawayPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighboring locations. The authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They provide the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape interpretable at different temporal and spatial scales, using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.
The Desert Fayum
Author: Gertrude Caton-ThompsonText
Author: Gertrude Caton-ThompsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 167
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The Desert Fayum
Author: Gertrude Caton-ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Fayyūm (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Fayum Landscape
Author: Claire J. MallesonPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617979465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In An Egyptian Landscape, Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have, through millennia, perceived and engaged with the Fayum landscape. Distinguishing between the experienced landscape of state and bureaucratic record and the imagined landscape of myth, meaning, and observers’ personal influences and expectations, Malleson questions in detail where those perceptions come from. She traces religious practices, follows the tracks of myths and traditions, and investigates the roots of stories found in texts from the pharaonic, classical, and Medieval Islamic periods. She also reviews many, more recent travel writings on the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The work of each author is presented in its historical and cultural context, and Malleson integrates what is known about ancient activities in the Fayum, based on the archaeological evidence from the many monuments and ancient settlements that exist in the region. Scholars and students of archaeology and landscape studies as well as general readers interested in Egypt’s history and archaeology will find this book highly engaging and enlightening.
Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery
Author: Kerry MuhlesteinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
In Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, Kerry Muhlestein and team offer new information that will help shape thinking about the dawn of the pyramid age and life during cultural and religious change in Egypt’s Graeco-Roman Fayoum.
The Desert Fayum
Author: G. Caton-ThompsonThe Oxford Handbook of Egyptology
Author: Ian ShawPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199271879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt, from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. Authoritative yet accessible, and covering a wide range of topics, it is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers alike.
The Nile
Author: Henri J. DumontPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402097263
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 819
Book Description
What have we learnt about the Nile since the mid-1970s, the moment when Julian Rzóska decided that the time had come to publish a comprehensive volume about the biology, and the geological and cultural history of that great river? And what changes have meanwhile occurred in the basin? The human popu- tion has more than doubled, especially in Egypt, but also in East Africa. Locally, industrial development has taken place, and the Aswan High Dam was clearly not the last major infrastructure work that was carried out. More dams have been built, and some water diversions, like the Toshka lakes, have created new expanses of water in the middle of the Sahara desert. What are the effects of all this on the ec- ogy and economy of the Basin? That is what the present book sets out to explore, 33 years after the publi- tion of “The Nile: Biology of an Ancient River”. Thirty-seven authors have taken up the challenge, and have written the “new” book. They come from 13 different countries, and 15 among them represent the largest Nilotic states (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya). Julian Rzóska died in 1984, and most of the - authors of his book have now either disappeared or retired from research. Only Jack Talling and Samir Ghabbour were still available to participate again.