The Nile Basin : quaternary geology, geomorphology and prehistoric environments / Martin Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, M. A. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Nile River Watershed.

Geology.

Geomorphology--Nile River Watershed.

Geomorphology.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Quaternary.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Antiquities.

Quaternary Geologic Period.

Nile River Watershed--Antiquities.

Nile River Watershed.

Physical Description:

xvii, 405 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years. However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this area are complex and often poorly understood. This comprehensive book explains in clear, non-technical terms how prehistoric environments can be reconstructed, with examples drawn from every part of the Nile Basin. Adopting a source-to-sink approach, the book integrates events in the Nile headwaters with the record from marine sediment cores in the Nile Delta and offshore. It provides a detailed record of past environmental changes throughout the Nile Basin and concludes with a review of the causes and consequences of plant and animal domestication in this region and of the various prehistoric migrations out of Africa into Eurasia and beyond. A comprehensive overview, this book is ideal for researchers in geomorphology, climatology and archaeology.

Contents:

Evolution of the Nile Basin

Climate and hydrology

Geology and soils

Vegetation, land use and human impact

The Ethiopian Highlands

The Ugandan Lake Plateau

The Sudd swamps and the White Nile

Lake Turkana and overflow into the Sobat

The Khor Abu Habl fan and the desert dunes of Kordofan and Darfur

The Gezira alluvial fan and Blue Nile palaeochannels

The Atbara

Jebel Marra volcano

The desert Nile

West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara. Part 1

West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara. Part 2

The Fayum

The Red Sea hills

The Sinai Peninsula

The Nile Delta

The Nile Cone

Origins of plant and animal domestication in the Nile Basin

Epilogue: 'Out of Africa'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781107179196

110717919X

OCLC:

1050455715

Publisher Number:

99980400550