The Oasis papers 6 : proceedings of the sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project / edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli and Colin A. Hope ; production editor, Bruce E. Parr ; contributing authors, Nicola Aravecchia ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dakhleh Oasis Project. Conference (6th : 2009 : Università del Salento)

Contributor:

Bagnall, Roger S.

Davoli, Paola.

Hope, Colin A.

Parr, Bruce E.

Aravecchia, Nicola.

Series:

Monograph (Dakhleh Oasis Project) ; no. 15.

Monograph / Dakhleh Oasis Project ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakhleh Oasis Project--Congresses.

Dakhleh Oasis Project.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Dakhla Oasis--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Dakhla Oasis (Egypt)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Dakhla Oasis (Egypt).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Other Title:

Oasis papers six

Proceedings of the sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation. This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic an

Contents:

Major archaeological sites in Kharga Oasis and some recent discoveries by the Supreme Council of Antiquities / Bahgat A. Ibrahim

Wanderers in the desert : the North Kharga Oasis survey's exploration of the Darb Ain Amur / Salima Ikram

Demotische und kursivhieratische Ostraka aus Mut al-Kharab / Gunter Vittmann

Cultural heritage management of the archaeological resources of the deserts of Egypt / Sayed Yamani

The culture of the oases : late Neolithic herders in Farafra, a matter of identity / Barbara E. Barich

Geomatics resources for archaeological survey in desert areas : some prospects from Farafra Oasis, Egypt / Barbara E. Barich, Mattia Crespi, Ulisse Fabiani and Giulio Lucarini

Beyond the shale : pottery and cultures in the prehistory of the Egyptian Western Desert / Maria C. Gatto

The Gebel Souhan problem : local innovation in the Middle Stone Age? / Maxine R. Kleindienst and Marcia F. Wiseman

Early craftsmen of the desert : traces of Predynastic lithic technology at Farafra during the Mid-Holocene / Giulio Lucarini

Levallois lithics on a Middle Stone Age playa : finds at Bir el-Obeiyid, Northern Farafra Depression, Egypt / Giuseppina Mutri

Wadi Sura and the Gilf Kebir National Park : challenge and chance for archaeology and conservation in Egypt's south-west / Heiko Riemer and Rudolph Kuper

The Khargan industry revisited / Marcia F. Wiseman

Technique and content in the rock art of the Libyan Fezzan : some Saharan stereotypes / Daniela Zampetti

Egyptian connections with Dakhleh Oasis in the Early Dynastic Period to Dynasty IV : new data from Mut al-Kharab / Colin A. Hope and Amy J. Pettman

Epigraphic evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Late Period / Olaf E. Kaper

An Old Kingdom trading post at Ain el-Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis / Anthony J. Mills

The date of the occupation of Ain el-Gazzareen based on ceramic evidence / Amy J. Pettman

Provisions for the journey : food production in the "bakery" area of Ain el-Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis / Amy J. Pettman, Ursula Thanheiser and Charles S. Churcher

Ptolemaic Period pottery from Mut al-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis / James C.R. Gill

An agricultural account from the Gemellos Archive / Giuseppina Azzarello

Cemeteries in Dakhleh / Maher Bashendi

Amheida 2007-2009 : new results from the excavations / Paola Davoli

Les necropoles d'el-Deir (Oasis de Kharga) / Francoise Dunand, Jean-Louis Heim and Roger Lichtenberg

Yale University Nadura Temple Project : 2009 season / David Klotz

al-Qasr : the Roman castrum of Dakhleh Oasis / Paul Kucera

Five Roman-period tunics from Kellis / Rosanne Livingstone

A remark on the poll tax rate in Kysis / Fabian Reiter

Controlling the borders of the empire : the distribution of Late-Roman "forts" in the Kharga Oasis / Corinna Rossi

Painted surfaces on mud plaster and three-dimensional mud elements : the status of conservation treatments and recommendations for continuing research / Constance S. Silver

The survey project at el-Deir, Kharga Oasis : first results, new hypotheses / Gaelle Talle, Jean-Paul Bravard, Romain Garcier, Stephanie Guedon and Ashraf Mostapha

Amheida : architectural conservation and site development, 2004-2009 / Nicholas Warner

Vine and acanthus : decorative themes in the wall-paintings of Kellis / Helen Whitehouse

The church complex of Ain el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis / Nicola Aravecchia

Christianity on Thoth's Hills / Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore

Coins as tools for dating the foundation of the large east church at Kellis : problems and a possible solution / Gillian E. Bowen

The church of Dayr Abu Matta and its associated structures : an overview of four seasons of excavation / Gillian E. Bowen

The Christian necropolis of el-Deir in the north of Kharga Oasis / Magali Coudert

Ceramics from Ain el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis : preliminary results / Delphine Dixneuf

Coptic ostraka from Qasr al-Dakhleh / Iain Gardner

Naqlun : the earliest hermitages / Wlodzimierz Godlewski

Contribution of textiles as archaeological artefacts to the study of the Christian cemetery of el-Deir / Fleur Letellier-Willemin.

Notes:

"This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project held in Lecce in 2009 plus one paper that was to have appeared in the proceedings of the previous conference held in Cairo, which is still being prepared for publication"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-78297-143-2

OCLC:

829461134