Egypt
Reports on research in Faiyum (prehistory) available online
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Both articles in the piece below are available in PDF format free of charge. If you think that you may want to refer to them again in the future I recommend that you save them. You never know how long articles will be available online.
Two new articles on the research done by Willeke Wendrich and Hans Barnard at the Fayum Oasis in Egypt have been published in scientific journals.
The first article, in the current issue of Antiquity, "Identifying low-level food producers: detecting mobility from lithics" can be read here.
The second article, from the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, "Dating stratified settlement sites at Kom K and Kom W: Fifth millennium BCE radiocarbon ages for the Fayum Neolithic," is available here.
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Journals: New - Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences
Springer I've only just noticed this journal which was published for the first time this year. It is not specific to Egypt but it might be of interest to those with concerns about scientific methods and approaches. Some of the first articles are available...
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Donors React Fast To Save Site In The Faiyum
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (Willeke Wendrich) Our primary goal in archaeology is to collect information, but academic archaeology has moved beyond just survey, excavation and analysis to include the protection of cultural heritage in its broadest...
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Backdirt 2007
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology UCLA Normally the news items on this site are a day or two old. This newsletter from the IOA at UCLA is nearly two years old. It is also over 40mb in size (110 pages of A4 if you're tempted to print it out). But I have...
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Journal Of Egyptian Archaeology 93, 2007
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (EES) The JEA is a leading international journal for the publication of Egyptological research. The journal publishes scholarly articles (main articles and brief communications), fieldwork reports, and reviews of Egyptological...
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New Uk Based Academic Journal
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/index.htm The first issue (Autumn 2006) of a new academic journal, The Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity from the University of Birmingham, is now online. "The Rosetta journal is aimed at postgraduates...
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