The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert / edited by Hans Barnard and Kim Duistermaat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnard, H.

Duistermaat, Kim.

Series:

Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ; 73.

Monograph / Cotson Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles ; 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Desert people.

Antiquities.

History.

Eastern Desert (Egypt)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Eastern Desert (Egypt).

Desert people--Egypt--Eastern Desert--History--Congresses.

Desert people--Egypt--Eastern Desert--Antiquities--Congresses.

Eastern Desert (Egypt)--Antiquities, Roman--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Eastern Desert--Congresses.

Egypt--Eastern Desert.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 506 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (47 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012.

Contents:

Part I. 1. Introduction to Part 1: From Adam to Alexander (500,000-2500 years ago) / H. Barnard

2. Contributions to the prehistory of the Eastern Desert, Egypt / P.M. Vermeersch

3. The holocene prehistory of the Nubian Eastern Desert / M.C. Gatto

4. The journey to the rock art gallery of Bir Nurayet (Sudan) / K. Pluskota

5. Boat petroglyphs in Egypt's Central Eastern Desert / F. Lankester

6. Nomads at the Nile: towards an archaeology of interaction / C. Nøser

7. Gods in the Red Land: development of cults and religious activities in the Eastern Desert / A.D. Espinel

8. Sinai in Egyptian, Levantine and Hebrew (Biblical) perspectives / J.K. Hoffmeier

9. Vegetation and management regime continuity in the cultural landscape of the Eastern Desert / G.L. Andersen

10. The Eastern Desert tombs and cultural continuity / K. Krzywinski

11. The desert dwellers of Marmarica, Western Desert: second millennium BCE to first millennium CE / A.-K. Rieger, T. Vetter and H. Møller

Part II. 12. Introduction to Part 2: the last 2500 years / H. Barnard

13. The Eastern Desert during the Ptolemaic period: an emerging picture / J. Gates-Foster

14. Nabataeans in the Eastern Desert during the Roman period / R.Z. Mohamed

15. Roman gold mining in the Eastern desert: the mining settlement in Wadi Bakariya / B.J.M. Tratsaert

16. A Blemmy by any other name...: a study in Greek ethnography / R.H. Pierce

17. Blemmyes, Noubades and the Eastern Desert in late antiquity: reassessing the written sources / J.H.F. Dijkstra

18. On the archaeology of the native population of the Eastern Desert in the first-seventh centuries CE / G. Lassønyi

19. Results of recent mass spectrometric research of Eastern Desert ware (4th-6th centuries CE) / H. Barnard

20. "You shall not see the tribes of the Blemmyes or of the Saracens": on the other 'barbarians' of the late Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt / T. Power

21. Invisible monks, human eyes and the Egyptian desert in late antique hagiography / K.M. Klein

22. Desert imagery: Bedouin, monks, demons and hermits around Saint Anthony's monastery / J.C.M. Starkey

23. Nomadism and the monastic life in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / M. Jones

24. Towards variability: cultural diversity in economic strategies of Beja peoples / P. Weschenfelder

25. The documentation of the cultural heritage of the Bedouin of South Sinai: a pilot study in Serabit al-Khadim / M. Hanna, F. Keshk and S. Aboubakr

26. Nominating Suakin a World Heritage Site / M.D.S. Mallinson

27. The establishment of a transboundary biosphere reserve in Wadi Allaqi, Egypt / M. al-Aawah and C. De Simone

28. Beja innovation and responses to environmental change in the southeastern desert of Egypt / A. Roe

29. Giving a voice to the Ababda / M. Abdel-Qadr, W.Z. Wendrich, Z. Kosc and H. Barnard

30. Sustainable desert tourism: a tool for competition / S.B. Hassan

31. Concluding remarks / J.L. Bintliff and H. Barnard.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 25-27, 2008 at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.

ISBN:

9781931745963

193174596X

OCLC:

768167947