Origin and Early Development of Food - Producing Cultures in North-Eastern Africa, Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 1

Poznan: Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 17x24 cm. Description: 503 pages (17x24 cm), softcover, dust jacket, drawings, plans, photographs Condition: very good Weight: 845g. From the Organizers and Editors List of Members of the Symposium Address to the Participants (by Jan Zak) Preface (by Fred Wendorf) Introduction J. DESMOND CLARK The domestication process in Northeast Africa: ecological change and adaptive strategies I.General themes ACHILLES GAUTIER Quaternary mammals and archaeozoology of Egypt and the Sudan: a survey JOHN A. ALEXANDER The end of the moving frontier in the Neolithic of North-Eastern Africa ABBAS S. MOHAMMED-ALI Evidence of early food-production in Northeast Africa: an alternative model MARGHERITA MUSSI Un modéle des débuts de l'agriculture au Proche-Orient WHITNEY DAVIS The earliest art in the Nile Valley ERIKA ENDESFELDER Social and economic development towards the end of the Predynastic period in Egypt BRUCE G. TRIGGER The mainlines of socio-economic devélopment ín dynastic Egypt to the end of the Old Kingdom PETER L. SHINNIE The mainlines of socio-economic development in the Sudan in Post-Neolithic times II.Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt FRED WENDORF and ROMUALD SCHILD Some implications of Late Palaeolithic cereal exploitation at Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper Egypt) ANN STEMLER and RICHARD H. FALK Evidence of grains from the site of Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper Egypt) PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH Subsistence activities on the Late Palaeolithic sites of Elkab (Upper Egypt) DOUGLAS R. CONNOR The Kiseiba Plateau: a systematic surface survey in Egypt's Western Desert K. MORGAN BANKS Early ceramic-bearing occupations in the Egyptian Western Desert ANGELA E. CLOSE Early Holocene raw material economies in the Western Desert of Egypt MICHAL KOBUSIEWICZ The multicultural Early Holocene site E-79-4 at Ghorab Playa, Western Desert of Egypt MARGHERITA MUSSI, ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARRATINI More on the Terminal Palaeolithic of the Fayum Depression ROBERT J. WENKE Early agriculture in the Southern Fayum Depression: some test survey results and research implications MARIA CASINI Neolithic and Predynastic in the Fayum ANTHONY J. MILLS Research in the Dakhleh Oasis THOMAS R. HAYS Predynastic development in Upper Egypt FEKRI A. HASSAN Toward a model of agricultural developments in Predynastic Egypt STAN HENDRICKX The Late Predynastic cemetery at Elkab (Upper Egypt) DIRK HUYGE Rock drawings at the mouth of Wadi Hellal, Elkab (Upper Egypt) MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN Predynastic cultural ecology and patterns of settlement in Upper Egypt as viewed from Hierakonpolis BOLESLAW GINTER and JANUSZ K. KOZLOWSKI The Tarifian and the origin of the Naqadian BÉATRIX MIDANT-REYNES La taille des couteaux de silex du type Gebel-el-Arak et la dénomination du silex en égyptien DIETRICH WILDUNG Terminal prehistory of the Nile Delta: theses III. Egyptian Varia FLORENCE BRAUNSTEIN-SILVESTRE Quand le cheval arrive-t-il en Égypte? PRENTISS S. de JESUS Comments on the development of pyrotechnology in early societies ALESSANDRA NIBBI Some Early Dynastic clues relating to the environment of Ancient Egypt IV. Late Palaeolithic, "Early Khartoum" and the Neotithic of the Sudan EUGEN STROUHAL Craniometric analysis of the Late Palaeolithic population of the Wadi Halfa region (Lower Nubia) JEAN LECLANT Les gravures rupestres du Gebel Gorgod (Nubie) ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARATTINI Saggai: a settlement of hunter-fishers north of Khartoum A. TIGANI EL MAHI An interpretation of the faunal remains from El Zakiab site (Central Sudan) LECH KRZYZANIAK The Neolithic habitation at Kadero (Central Sudan) ACHILLES GAUTIER The fauna of the Neolithic site of Kadero (Central Sudan) [...]