The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the early to mid-Holocene landscape archaeology of the Fayum north shore, Egypt / Edited by Simon J. Holdaway and Willeke Wendrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holdaway, Simon (Simon John), editor, contributor.

Wendrich, Willeke, editor, contributor.

Series:

Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 39.

Monumenta Archaeologica ; volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology--Egypt--Fayyūm (Province).

Landscape archaeology.

Archaeological geology--Egypt--Fayyūm (Province).

Archaeological geology.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Fayyūm (Egypt : Province)--Antiquities.

Fayyūm (Egypt : Province).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Fayyūm (Province).

Paleogeography--Holocene.

Paleogeography.

Antiquities.

Holocene Geologic Period.

Egypt--Fayyūm (Province).

Physical Description:

xvii, 262 pages ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles] : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2017]

Summary:

"The Neolithic in Egypt is thought to have arrived via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia. Here we suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum, with the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced to the Fayum from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt."--Publisher summary.

Contents:

Landscape archaeology of the desert Fayum / Willeke Wendrich and Simon J. Holdaway

The Fayum in the context of northeast Africa / Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, and Willeke Wendrich

Approaches to paleoenvironment and landscape use / Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Ramsay, Willeke Wendrich, and Joshua J. Emmitt

The L Basin archaeological record / Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, Annelies Koopman, Veerle Linseele, and Willeke Wendrich

The K Basin archaeological record

Kom K / Willeke Wendrich, Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, Veerle Linseele, Joshua J. Emmitt, and John M. Marston

The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the evidence considered / Simon J. Holdaway, Willeke Wendrich, and Rebecca Phillipps

The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the Fayum in context / Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, and Willeke Wendrich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781938770098

1938770099

OCLC:

973481473

Publisher Number:

40027361313