An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt
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ISBN: 0-87081-537-7
Description: hardback, XXI + 340 pp., (28,5x22 cm), phots., maps, drawings, tables
Condition: very good
Weight: 1400g.
Frank W. Eddy, Fred Wendorf, An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, University Press of Colorado 1999
Based on field work conducted in 1996 by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE)in the upper Wadi Grafi Basin, An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, sheds further light on the Timnian Tradition of the southern Levant, one of the earliest (7000-3000 B.P.) nomadic pastoral cultures described to date. The results of their research indicate that there were two distinct settlement patterns that were alternating adaptive responses to changing climatic conditions. First, a regional environmental analysis shows that nomadic tent pastoralists herding goats, sheep, as well as cattle were responding to desert living during and times. The settlement data reveal this adaptation in two periods, once during the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) (6500-4800 B.P.) and again during the Middle Bronze Age (3800-3300 B.P.). By contrast, the second pattern -- that of semi-nomadic village pastoralists -- was a solution to life in the wetter climate that appeared during the Early Bronze Age (4800-3800 B.P.). Thus, the authors maintain, the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age archaeology shows a pattern in which the fully nomadic tent community alternated with seminomadic village pastoralists according to the intensity of rainfall and availability of forage. An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, is divided into two parts, one describing the results of the survey and the other detailing the later excavations in the fall. Complete with 101 line drawings, 60 maps, and 23 black-and-white photos, this book is essential reading for scholars interested in the pre-historic archaeology of the Sinai region.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreward
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abstract
SURVEY
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Research Methods
3.0 Description of Site Localities
4.0 Dating and Chronology Building
5.0 Analysis of Data
6.0 Interpretive Summary
7.0 References Cited
EXCAVATION
8.0 Introduction
9.0 Excavations at Sinai-1, the Rahaya Site, Rahaya Locality
10.0 Excavations at Sinai-10, the Kite Site, Romythi Locality
11.0 Excavations at Sinai-18, the Khasem El Taref Site, Zarnoq Locality
12.0 Excavations at Sinai-20, the Split Rock Site, Zarnoq Locality
13.0 Test Excavations at Three Sites, S-25, S-27, S-40, Tabieq Locality
14.0 Excavations at Sinai-32, the Megrah Site, Tabieq Locality
15.0 Excavations at Sinai-47, the Power Line Site, Zarnoq Locality
16.0 Excavations at Sinai-73, the Mazeyh Site, Zarnoq Locality
17.0 Radiocarbon Dates
18.0 Interpretive Summary
19.0 References Cited
Appendices
A A Description of Surface-Collected Vessel Fragments
B Geomorphology and Slope Reversal in Southeastern Sinai
C Glossary of Place Names and Terms
D Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Lithology of Prehistoric Sites
E Archaeobotanical Report
F Charcoal identifications from Sinai-1 and Sinai-32
G Excavations at Sinai-74, Zarnoq Locality