Egypt
- More Re Greening Of The Sahara - The Full Article
PNAS Available free of charge in PDF format. Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa Isla S. Castañedaa, Stefan Mulitzab, Enno Schefußb, Raquel A. Lopes dos Santosa, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damstéa and Stefan Schoutena...
- More Re Out Of Africa Via Wet Sahara
Science Now (Michael Balter) Modern humans arose in sub-Saharan Africa as early as 200,000 years ago, but our species did not venture beyond Africa until at least 80,000 years later. Just why they took so long to travel north is not clear, but many researchers...
- Upcoming Publication: The Archaeology Of Water
This is an early alert for an upcoming publication "The Archaeology of Water" (edited by Marco Madella and J. Shaw) in the World Archaeology series. It is due in March 2009 but the editors are still interested in receiving as many contributions as possible...
- Travel: The Complete Guide To Nile Journeys
The Independent on Sunday (David Else)Picture a map of Africa, and divide it in four. The top right-hand bit – the north-eastern quadrant, for the geographically minded – is dominated by the Nile. It has two main tributaries: the White Nile, flowing...
- J. African Archaeology - Khartoum And Nabta/kiseiba
http://www.african-archaeology.de/journal.php The Journal of African Archaeology, volume 3, is tentatively expected to be released in June. As well as a number of potentially fascinating articles about other areas of Africa, shown at the above address,...
Egypt
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 of North Africa by Elena A. A. Garcea: "Early Holocene foragers in North Africa provide unique responses to adaptational patterns of non-agricultural societies and they can offer intriguing answers to questions regarding relationships between sedentism, economy and sociocultural complexity. Three points are of major relevance for understanding late foragers in North Africa: first, fishing, sustained by reduced mobility, was a common practice at sites located along perennial rivers, such as the Nile, or seasonal watercourses (wadis); second, the successive shift to a food-producing economy implied the acquisition of nomadic pastoralism; third, agriculture has never been a feasible economic practice in desert and peri-desert environments."
The full paper can be purchased online, but the abstract is free of charge at the above address.
- More Re Greening Of The Sahara - The Full Article
PNAS Available free of charge in PDF format. Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa Isla S. Castañedaa, Stefan Mulitzab, Enno Schefußb, Raquel A. Lopes dos Santosa, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damstéa and Stefan Schoutena...
- More Re Out Of Africa Via Wet Sahara
Science Now (Michael Balter) Modern humans arose in sub-Saharan Africa as early as 200,000 years ago, but our species did not venture beyond Africa until at least 80,000 years later. Just why they took so long to travel north is not clear, but many researchers...
- Upcoming Publication: The Archaeology Of Water
This is an early alert for an upcoming publication "The Archaeology of Water" (edited by Marco Madella and J. Shaw) in the World Archaeology series. It is due in March 2009 but the editors are still interested in receiving as many contributions as possible...
- Travel: The Complete Guide To Nile Journeys
The Independent on Sunday (David Else)Picture a map of Africa, and divide it in four. The top right-hand bit – the north-eastern quadrant, for the geographically minded – is dominated by the Nile. It has two main tributaries: the White Nile, flowing...
- J. African Archaeology - Khartoum And Nabta/kiseiba
http://www.african-archaeology.de/journal.php The Journal of African Archaeology, volume 3, is tentatively expected to be released in June. As well as a number of potentially fascinating articles about other areas of Africa, shown at the above address,...