The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert
| Körperschaft: |
The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert (Conference) Cairo, Egypt)
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Barnard, H.
Duistermaat, Kim |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Los Angeles, CA :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 506 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 29 cm. + CD-ROM |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ;
73 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I. 1. Introduction to Part 1: From Adam to Alexander (500,000-2500 years ago) / H. Barnard
- 2. Contributions to the prehistory of the Eastern Desert, Egypt / P.M. Vermeersch
- 3. The holocene prehistory of the Nubian Eastern Desert / M.C. Gatto
- 4. The journey to the rock art gallery of Bir Nurayet (Sudan) / K. Pluskota
- 5. Boat petroglyphs in Egypt's Central Eastern Desert / F. Lankester
- 6. Nomads at the Nile: towards an archaeology of interaction / C. Nser
- 7. Gods in the Red Land: development of cults and religious activities in the Eastern Desert / A.D. Espinel
- 8. Sinai in Egyptian, Levantine and Hebrew (Biblical) perspectives / J.K. Hoffmeier
- 9. Vegetation and management regime continuity in the cultural landscape of the Eastern Desert / G.L. Andersen
- 10. The Eastern Desert tombs and cultural continuity / K. Krzywinski
- ^11. The desert dwellers of Marmarica, Western Desert: second millennium BCE to first millennium CE / A.-K. Rieger, T. Vetter and H. Mller
- Part II. 12. Introduction to Part 2: the last 2500 years / H. Barnard
- 13. The Eastern Desert during the Ptolemaic period: an emerging picture / J. Gates-Foster
- 14. Nabataeans in the Eastern Desert during the Roman period / R.Z. Mohamed
- 15. Roman gold mining in the Eastern desert: the mining settlement in Wadi Bakariya / B.J.M. Tratsaert
- 16. A Blemmy by any other name...: a study in Greek ethnography / R.H. Pierce
- 17. Blemmyes, Noubades and the Eastern Desert in late antiquity: reassessing the written sources / J.H.F. Dijkstra
- 18. On the archaeology of the native population of the Eastern Desert in the first-seventh centuries CE / G. Lassnyi
- 19. Results of recent mass spectrometric research of Eastern Desert ware (4th-6th centuries CE) / H. Barnard
- ^20. "You shall not see the tribes of the Blemmyes or of the Saracens": on the other 'barbarians' of the late Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt / T. Power
- 21. Invisible monks, human eyes and the Egyptian desert in late antique hagiography / K.M. Klein
- 22. Desert imagery: Bedouin, monks, demons and hermits around Saint Anthony's monastery / J.C.M. Starkey
- 23. Nomadism and the monastic life in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / M. Jones
- 24. Towards variability: cultural diversity in economic strategies of Beja peoples / P. Weschenfelder
- 25. The documentation of the cultural heritage of the Bedouin of South Sinai: a pilot study in Serabit al-Khadim / M. Hanna, F. Keshk and S. Aboubakr
- 26. Nominating Suakin a World Heritage Site / M.D.S. Mallinson
- 27. The establishment of a transboundary biosphere reserve in Wadi Allaqi, Egypt / M. al-Aawah and C. De Simone
- 28. Beja innovation and responses to environmental change in the southeastern desert of Egypt / A. Roe
- ^29. Giving a voice to the Ababda / M. Abdel-Qadr, W.Z. Wendrich, Z. Kosc and H. Barnard
- 30. Sustainable desert tourism: a tool for competition / S.B. Hassan
- 31. Concluding remarks / J.L. Bintliff and H. Barnard.
