The Oasis Papers 1: The Proceedings of the First Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis ProjectThe first Dakhleh Oasis Project seminar held at Durham University in 1994 was the occasion for discussion of topics ranging from the Pleistocene to paleoepidemiology and papyri. |
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... Gilf Kebir ( for the later millennia ; Kuper , 1989 : table 1 ) and from the intensively investigated Nabta- Kiseiba area ; in fact , thirteen of the dates of c . 8000 bp are from a single Nabta site , E - 75-6 ( Wendorf and Schild ...
... Gilf Kebir ( for the later millennia ; Kuper , 1989 : table 1 ) and from the intensively investigated Nabta- Kiseiba area ; in fact , thirteen of the dates of c . 8000 bp are from a single Nabta site , E - 75-6 ( Wendorf and Schild ...
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... Gilf Kebir and Abu Ballas signal a climatic change as the monsoon belt shifted northward into Egypt . Close ( 1992 : 160 ) , on the other hand , suggests that this change occurred earlier , citing the presence of southern species at Abu ...
... Gilf Kebir and Abu Ballas signal a climatic change as the monsoon belt shifted northward into Egypt . Close ( 1992 : 160 ) , on the other hand , suggests that this change occurred earlier , citing the presence of southern species at Abu ...
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... Gilf Kebir Forty dates have been published for the Gilf Kebir , and another three for the small , apparently related , sites of the nearby Gebel Kamil ( Fig . 3.3e ; 12 Hahn 1993 ) . 12 For the Gilf , a dozen dates are thinly spread ...
... Gilf Kebir Forty dates have been published for the Gilf Kebir , and another three for the small , apparently related , sites of the nearby Gebel Kamil ( Fig . 3.3e ; 12 Hahn 1993 ) . 12 For the Gilf , a dozen dates are thinly spread ...
Contents
Problems in the prehistory of the Late Upper Pleistocene of the Dakhleh Oasis | 15 |
The Late Prehistoric radiocarbon chronology for Dakhleh Oasis within the wider | 26 |
The Dakhleh Oasis in the Roman Period | 43 |
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