North Kharga Oasis survey : explorations in Egypt's Western Desert / Corinna Rossi and Salima Ikram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Corinna, author.

Ikram, Salima, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 5.

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Kharga (Egypt : Oasis)--Antiquities.

Kharga (Egypt : Oasis).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Kharga (Oasis).

Archaeological surveying--Egypt--Kharga (Oasis).

Archaeological surveying.

Egypt--Kharga (Oasis).

Physical Description:

xxx, 587 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2018.

Summary:

"The North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS) presents the results of archaeological exploration carried out over seven years in the northern part of Kharga Oasis, the largest and most southern oasis of Egypt's Western Desert. This area had seen limited archaeological exploration until 2001, when NKOS began. NKOS has discovered and documented sites dating to all eras, ranging from the Prehistoric to the Late Antique. They include temporary camps, rock art sites, settlements, tombs, temples, industrial areas, Roman forts, fields, complex irrigation systems, and a network of routes that connect the sites together, as well as linking Kharga to the Nile Valley, Dakhla Oasis, Sudan, and beyond. The distribution, types of sites, and water acquisition strategies illustrate the changing interactions between humans and the landscape, which has fluctuated between wet and dry over time. Illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs, the archaeological heritage of North Kharga is revealed for the first time"--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. The Kharga Oasis : geography and history. I.1. Kharga and the Western Desert : geology, geography, and the natural environment / Salima Ikram, with a contribution by Judith Bunbury

I.2. The exploration of the Kharga Oasis / Salima Ikram

I.3. A brief overview of the history of Kharga / Salima Ikram, with contributions by Corinna Rossi. Part II. Gazetteer. II.1. The organization of the Gazetteer

II.2. The northernmost area

II.3. The northern cluster

II.4. Muhammad Tuleib

II.5. Ain al-Lebekha

II.6. Umm al-Dabadib

II.7. Prehistoric sites in the area of Umm al-Dabadib

II.8. The area between Ain al-Lebekha and Ain al-Tarakwa

II.9. Ain al-Tarakwa

II.10. Ian al-Dabashiya

II.11. Other sites associated with Nkos's activities. Part III. Kharga Oasis in antiquity : an overview. III.1. The architecture of the forts / Corinna Rossi

III.2. Living in Roman Kharga : an anaylysis of domestic architectural remains / Nicholas Warner

III.3. Temples of north Kharga / Salima Ikram

III.4. Christian architecture in north Kharga / Nicholas Warner

III.5. The ways of death in north Kharga / Salima Ikram

III.6. Water systems / Corinna Rossi

III.7. Archaeobotanical remains / Alan J. Clapham

III.8. Textiles / Jana Jones

III.9. Summary / Corinna Rossi and Salima Ikram.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-587).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789042936218

9042936215

OCLC:

1061308066

Publisher Number:

99980319817