The Oasis Papers 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis ProjectThis volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997). Four abstracts from papers not submitted to the published volume are also included, as is the original conference programme. |
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Palaeoenvironment | 1 |
First Report on UraniumSeries Dating of CatonThompsons | 25 |
The Occurrence of a HighCa Silicate Glass near the Dakhleh Oasis Egypt | 43 |
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A. J. Mills Acheulian Africa Ain Tirghi Alcelaphus animals archaeological artefacts Aterian Balat bifaces bone bubal hartebeest C. S. Churcher calcrete Camel carbon Caton-Thompson 1952 cemeteries circa cluster cores cultural Dakhleh Glass Dakhleh Oasis Project DeNiro dentine deposits Desert of Egypt diet Dorcas Dorcas gazelle Egypt Escarpment evidence excavated fauna Figure flakes fossil fragments Gardner Gautier gazelle geological gravels Greet Grid Holocene hyaena hypocone identified Ismant el-Kharab isotope Kellis Kharga Oasis late Bashendi Levallois Levalloisian Libyan localities Masara material McDonald mid-Pleistocene Middle Paleolithic mud-brick Nabta Playa Neolithic Nile Valley Old Kingdom Ontario Osborn and Helmy ostrich Oxbow Books Oxbow Monograph P.Kell Palaeobasin Palaeolake plant remains Pleistocene Prehistory Quaternary recovered Refuf Sahara samples Schild Schwarcz sediments Sheikh Muftah silts specimens suggests surface Syncerus Tarfawi Teneida terrace Thanheiser Tufa University uranium-series Wadi el-Refuf Wendorf Western Desert Wiseman