Archaeology of Early Northeastern Africa, In Memory of Lech Krzyzaniak, ed. by K. Kroeper, M. Chlodnicki, M. Kobusiewicz, Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 9, Poznan 2006
Table of Contents Forewords Lech Krzyzaniak - Bibliography
I Sudan
Abdelrahim M. Khabir Some new reflections on Islang and Nofalab Neolithic sites in Khartoum province, Sudan Przemyslaw Bobrowski and Maciej Jordeczka A survey of the Wadi Awatib near Naga Louis Chaix New data about rural economy in the Kerma culture: the site of Gism el-Arba (Sudan) Mauro Cremaschi, Sandro Salvatori, Donatella Usai and Andrea Zerboni A further "tessera" to the huge "mosaic": studying the ancient settlement pattern of the El Salha region (south-west of Omdurman, Central Sudan) David N. Edwards Mid Holocene game drives in Nubian landscapes? Victor M. Fernandez The Prehistory of the Blue Nile Region (Central Sudan and Western Ethiopia) Elena A. A. Garcea Pottery making processes at Esh Shaheinab, Sudan Achilles Gautier The faunal remains of the Early Neolithic site Kadero, Central Sudan Brigitte Gratien Kerma people in Egypt (Middle and Classic Kerma) Randi Haaland Ritual and political aspects of Iron working; iron in war and conflict Margaret Judd Jebel Sahaba revisited Derek A. Welsby Two unusual monuments in the Northern Dongola Reach of the Nile, Sudan Bruce Beyer Williams A-Group Society in the context of Northeastern Africa
II The Sahara and the Western Desert of Egypt and the Sudan
Friedrich Berger Relative chronology of rock art at Djedefre's Water Mountain, SW-Egypt Przemyslaw Bobrowski, Romuald Schild and Gilberto Calderonii Late Neolithic Settlements ( E-01-2 "CAMP" ) from the Gebel Ramlah Playa Basin, South-Western Desert of Egypt (Preliminary Report) Maria Carmela Gatto The Early A-Group in Upper Lower Nubia, Upper Egypt and the surrounding deserts Birgit Keding Pottery of the Wadi Howar - traditions, transformations and their implications Rudolph Kuper An attempt at Structuring the Holocene Occupation of the Eastern Sahara Mathias Lange The archaeology of Wadi Hariq (NW-Sudan): Results from excavations 1999 and 2001 Mathias Lange and Hans-Ake Nordstrom Abkan connections-The relationship between the Abkan culture in the Nile valley and Early Nubian sites from the Laqiya Region (Eastern Sahara, Northwest Sudan) Mark Milburn Some enigmatic phenomena of the East, Central and West Sahara Nadja Pollath Mid-Holocene pastoralism in Northwestern Sudan: cattle bone finds from Wadi Hariq and their cultural implications Heiko Riemer and Peter Schonfeld The prehistoric pottery of Abu Tartur, Western Desert of Egypt Noriyuki Shirai Origins and development of bifacial stone tools and their implications for the beginning of animal herding in the Egyptian Western Desert Pierre M. Vermeersch, W. Van Neer and F. Gullentops El Abadiya 3, Upper Egypt, A Late Palaeolithic site on the shore of a Large Nile Lake
III Oases
C. S.Churcher and M. R. Kleindienst A Pre-Dynastic Ass (Equus asinus) from the Sheikh Muftah Cultural Horizon of the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt Maxine R. Kleindienst, Charles S. Churcher, B. Churcher, Henry P. Schwarcz, Albert F. C. Haldemann, Jennifer R. Smith and Gordon R. Osinski Geoarchaeological investigations in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt: Did a meteorite strike Dakhleh during the time of Middle Stone Age occupations? Michal Kobusiewicz Stone knapping tradition in Old Kingdom Dakhleh Giulio Lucarini The use and exploitation of the sorghum and wild plants in the hidden valley village (Farafra Oasis Egypt) Mary M. A. McDonald Holocene Prehistory of the Wadi el Midauwara above the Kharga Oasis, Egypt Heiko Riemer Out of Dakhla: Cultural diversity and mobility between the Egyptian Oases and the Great Sand Sea during the Holocene humid phase J. L. Thompson and G. M. Madden Skeletal biology of Neolithic human remains from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt Ashten R. Warfe and Andrew S. Jamieson Experimental archaeology in Dakhleh Oasis, south central Egypt: new insights on the prehistoric pottery industry
IV Egypt
Joanna Aksamit A new list of vases with 'cult-signs Branislav Andelkovic Models of state formation in Predynastic Egypt Lucas Baque-Manzano State formation in ancient Egypt after the reading of Ibn Khaldiin's Muqaddimah Rodolfo Fattovich Some general remarks on the origins of the state in Upper Egypt Serena Giuliani Defining Pan-Grave pottery Nicola Harrington MacGregor-Man and the development of anthropomorphic figures in the Late Predynastic Period Ulrich Hartung Some remarks on a rock drawing from Gebel Tjauti Fekri A. Hassan, Alejandro Jimenez Serrano and Geoffrey J. Tassie The sequence and chronology of the Protodynastic and Dynasty I rulers Stan Hendrickx The dog, the Lycaon pictus and order over chaos in Predynastic Egypt S.O.Y. Keita Early farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic immigrants to the Nile Valley? Craniometric affinities considered with other evidence S.O.Y. Keita The interpretation of variation in skull porosities by burial position in the Dynasty I royal cemetery complex in Abydos, Upper Egypt Candelaria Martin del Rio Alvarez Predynastic hairpins and combs from the necropolis of Naqada: preliminary conclusions Sabrina R. Rampersad Tell el-Masha'la: A Predynastic/Early Dynastic site in the Eastern Nile Delta Edwin C. M. van den Brink and Eliot Braun South Levantine influences on Egyptian stone and pottery production: Some rare examples Joris van Wetering and G. J. Tassie Considering the archaeology of Early Northeast Africa: Interpretation and methodology Sonia R. Zakrzewski Human skeletal diversity in the Egyptian Nile Valley
Tell el-Farkha
Marek Chlodnicki Tell el-Farkha - stratigraphy of the Eastern Kom (northern part) Krzysztof M. Cialowicz From residence to early temple: the case of Tell el-Farkha Joanna Debowska Tell el-Farkha necropolis in 2003 Agnieszka Maczynska Egyptian-Southern Levantine interaction in the 4th and 3rd millennium B.C. A a view from Tell el-Farkha
V Libya
Barbara E. Barich The archaeology of Jebel Gharbi-contributions to the knowledge of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Northern Libya Elena A. A. Garcea and Carlo Giraudi Earthquakes and tectonic dynamics favouring late Pleistocene human settlements in the Jebel Gharbi, Libya Friederike Jesse Pastoral groups in the Southern Libyan Desert: The Handessi Horizon (c. 2400 - 1100 BC)
VI Varia
Paolo Biagi The Levallois assemblages of Sindh (Pakistan) and their importance in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Indian Subcontinent Christopher Ehret Linguistic stratigraphies and holocene history in Northeastern Africa Alphabetical list of contributors
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