Egypt
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Tracking East African Cattle Herders from Prehistory to the Present
By Kathleen Ryan, Photography by Jennifer Chiappardi
Expedition Volume 51, Number 3 Winter 2009
- Prehistoric Carvings And Figurines Found In Ne Sudan
Serwis Nauka w Polsce Concentration of carvings with thousands of images, ancient burial grounds and several dozen terracotta figurines were found by archaeological team from the Department of Archaeology of Africa of the Institute of Archaeology and...
- Online: Late Neolithic Megalithic Structures At Nabta Playa (sahara), Southwestern Egypt.
The Comparative Archaeology website Added March 1998. Updated November 26, 2000. Late Neolithic megalithic structures at Nabta Playa (Sahara), southwestern Egypt. By Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild Introduction Located 100 km west of Abu Simbel, in southernmost...
- Sedentism In Prehistoric North Africa
http://tinyurl.com/mrs8c (journalsonline.tandf.co.uk)The latest issue of World Archaeology (Volume 38, Number 2, June 2006) focuses on sedentism, and contains one article relevant to Egyptian prehistory: Semi-permanent foragers in semi-arid environments...
- African Pastoral: Archaeologists Rewrite History Of Farming
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/science/27farm.html A good article discussing the latest theories about the origins of agriculture. Agriculture appears to have been adopted in an entirely different way in Africa, and recent and ongoing genetic studies...
- African Scientists Map Origin Of Continent's Cattle
http://www.afrol.com/articles/11986 The origins of cattle is important to an understanding of the roll out of agriculture in Africa, including Egypt - Fred Wendorf has found that cattle were a crucial component of one of the earliest agricultural communities...
Egypt
Online article: Tracking East African Cattle Herders from Prehistory to the Present
Expedition Magazine
In PDF format.
Tracking East African Cattle Herders from Prehistory to the Present
By Kathleen Ryan, Photography by Jennifer Chiappardi
Expedition Volume 51, Number 3 Winter 2009
Cattle herding, as well as dairying, has long been a staple of the subsistence economy in those areas of sub-Saharan Africa suitable for the survival of cattle: the Sahel region and those parts of eastern and southern Africa at sufficient altitude to be free of the tsetse fly. In the semi-arid parts of this vast area, which are unsuitable for agriculture, herding became the primary food production system.
Cattle herding is attested in northern Africa as early as ca. 9000 BP. On present evidence, its earliest appearance in eastern Africa was between 5,000 and 4,000 years ago. The Laikipia Plateau, in north-central Kenya, has evidence of many early Pastoral Neolithic sites, and for this reason our project is concentrating on that area.
The goals of the Laikipia Regional Survey project are to identify Pastoral Neolithic sites, to investigate the inter-relationship between these early pastoralists and the indigenous Later Stone Age hunter-gatherer groups of the area, and to ascertain (via analysis of fat residues on the sherds) whether dairying was practiced. In addition, our earlier ethnoarchaeological research on the subsistence economy of the Maasai (1990–2002) will provide models of settlement and subsistence strategies against which to assess our archaeological findings in Laikipia.
- Prehistoric Carvings And Figurines Found In Ne Sudan
Serwis Nauka w Polsce Concentration of carvings with thousands of images, ancient burial grounds and several dozen terracotta figurines were found by archaeological team from the Department of Archaeology of Africa of the Institute of Archaeology and...
- Online: Late Neolithic Megalithic Structures At Nabta Playa (sahara), Southwestern Egypt.
The Comparative Archaeology website Added March 1998. Updated November 26, 2000. Late Neolithic megalithic structures at Nabta Playa (Sahara), southwestern Egypt. By Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild Introduction Located 100 km west of Abu Simbel, in southernmost...
- Sedentism In Prehistoric North Africa
http://tinyurl.com/mrs8c (journalsonline.tandf.co.uk)The latest issue of World Archaeology (Volume 38, Number 2, June 2006) focuses on sedentism, and contains one article relevant to Egyptian prehistory: Semi-permanent foragers in semi-arid environments...
- African Pastoral: Archaeologists Rewrite History Of Farming
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/science/27farm.html A good article discussing the latest theories about the origins of agriculture. Agriculture appears to have been adopted in an entirely different way in Africa, and recent and ongoing genetic studies...
- African Scientists Map Origin Of Continent's Cattle
http://www.afrol.com/articles/11986 The origins of cattle is important to an understanding of the roll out of agriculture in Africa, including Egypt - Fred Wendorf has found that cattle were a crucial component of one of the earliest agricultural communities...