The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert /

The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert /

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Other Authors: Barnard, H., Duistermaat, Kim.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Los Angeles, CA : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012.

Series: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press monographs ; 73.

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Desert people > Egypt > Eastern Desert > History > Congresses.
Desert people > Egypt > Eastern Desert > Antiquities > Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Eastern Desert > Congresses.
Eastern Desert (Egypt) > Antiquities > Congresses.
Eastern Desert (Egypt) > Antiquities, Roman > Congresses.

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Call Number: DT137 .E38 H57 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • 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. Nøser
  • 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. Møller
  • 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. Lassønyi
  • 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.