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Interregional Contacts in the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa, Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 5, edited by L. Krzyzaniak, K. Kroeper and M. Kobusiewicz, Poznan Archaeological Museum 1996



From the Organizers and Editors
List of Participants in the Symposium
I. Northeastern Africa
Anclrea Manzo
Social complexity and cultural contacts in Northeastern Africa between 3000 and 1000 B.C.: a provisional model
Andrew B. Smith
The Near Eastern connection II: cultural contacts with the Nile Delta and the Sahara
II. North African littoral and the Sahara
Barbara E. Barich, Cecilia Conati-Barbaro and Carlo Giraudi The archaeology of Jebel Gharbi (Northwest Libya) and the Libyan sequence
Jeun-Loi'c Le Quellec
Cultural areas and interregional relations: the case of the Egyptian and Libyan theriomorphs
HI. Eastern Sahara
Hula Burakat
Anthracological studies in the Northeastern Sahara: methodology and preliminary results from the Nabta Playa
Barbara E. Barich, Fekri A. Hassan and Alessandra A. Stoppiello
Farafra Oasis between the Sahara and the Nile
Rudolph Kuper
Between the Oases and the Nile- Djara: Rohlfs' Cave in the Western Desert. Mary M. A. McDonald
Relations between Dakhleh Oasis and the Nile Valley in the
Mid-Holocene: a discussion
Romuald Schild. Halina Krolik. Fred Wendorf and Angela E. Close
Architecture of Early Neolithic huts at Nabta Playa .
Werner Schbn
The Late Neolithic of Gilf Kebir: evolution and relations
Fred Wendorf. Romuald Schild and Nieves Zedeno
A Late Neolithic megalith complex in the Eastern Sahara: a preliminary report
IV. The Nile Delta and the Egyptian Nile Valley
Barbara Adams
Imports and imitations in Predynastic funerary contexts at Hierakonpolis .
Kathryn A. Bard
The Predynastic site of Halfiah Gibli. Upper Egypt, and interconnections within the Nagada network
Chris Ellis
Expressions of social status: a statistical approach to the Late Predynastic/Early Dynastic cemeteries of Kafr Tarkhan
Boleslaw Ginter. Janusz K. Kozlowski and Maciej Pawlikowski Raw material procurement in the Tarifian and in the Naqada Culture: a case study from the Nile Valley in Upper Egypt
Diane L. Holmes
Recent investigations in the Badari region (Middle Egypt)
Diane L. Holmes
Lithic assemblages from Hierakonpolis and interregional relations in Predynastic Egypt
Shomarka O.Y. Keita
Analysis of Nagada Predynastic crania: a brief report
E. Christiana Kohler
Evidence for interregional contacts between late prehistoric
Lower and Upper Egypt - a view from Buto
Nancy C. Lovell and Andrew L. Johnson
Human biological variation at Nagada: an analysis of dental morphological traits
Beatrix Midant-Reynes
The Predynastic site of Adaima (Upper Egypt)
Mohamed Adel M. Abd el-Moneim
Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic cemetery of Beni Amir (Eastern Delta).
Mohamed Adel M. Abd el-Moneim
Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic mound of Beni Amir (Eastern Delta)
Mohamed Ibrahim Bakr. Mohamed Adel Abd el-Moneim and Mahmoud Omar M. Selim Protodynastic excavations at Tell Hassan Dawud (Eastern Delta)
Klaus Schmidt (with an Addendum by Ernst Pernicka)
Lower and Upper Egypt in the Chalcolithic Period. Evidence of the lithic industries: a view from Buto
Ursula Thanheiser
Local crop production versus import of cereals during the Predynastic Period in the Nile Delta
V. The Sinai
Isabella Caneva
Survey in northwestern Sinai
Ram Gophna
Observations on the earliest phase of relations between Egypt and Canaan during the Early Bronze Age
VI. The Sudan
Isabella Caneva
Post-Shahcinab Neolithic remains at Geili
Klena A. A. Garcea
Cultural developments in the final hunting-gathering horizons in the Middle and Upper Nile Valley
Maria C. Gatto and F. Tiraterra
Contacts between the Nubian "A-Groups" and Predynastic Egypt
Alfredo Jimeno. Victor M. Fernandcz. Mario Menendez and Javier Lario The Mesolithic/Neolithic of the Blue Nile (east bank) : chronological seriation and settlement patterns
Michal Kobusiewicz
Technology, goals and efficiency of quartz exploitation in the Khartoum Neolithic: the case of Kadero
Michal Kobusiewicz and Jacek Kabacinski
Jebel Kobkabba: a Middle Palaeolithic site in Sudanese Nubia
Mahmoud cl-Tayeb Mahmoud
Neolithic sites on the White Nile
Joris Peters
New light on Mesolithic resource scheduling and site inhabitation in Central Sudan
VII. The Horn of Africa
Rodolfo Fattovich
The Afro-Arabian circuit: contacts between the Horn of Africa and Southern Arabia in the 3rd -2nd millennia B.C.
VIII. Varia
Tsuyoshi Fujimoto
Experiments in grinding cereals
Stan Hendrickx
Considerations on the "Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan"
Eric Huysecom
Iron Age terracotta pestles in the Sahel area: an ethnoarchaeological approach
Jacke Phillips
Aegypto-Aegean relations up to the 2nd millennium B.C.
Purushottam Singh
The origin and dispersal of millet cultivation in India
Suzanne M. M. Young
Archaeometric analysis of copper swords from Kerma, Nubia
Alphabetical List of Authors