Edited by Jamie Woodward
The Nile Valley and desert landscapes of Egypt and Sudan have been key areas of geoarchaeological research for many decades. Geoscientists have worked alongside archaeologists in a wide range of contexts including Palaeolithic sites in desert oases and the magnificent urban centres of Pharaonic Egypt. This interaction has yielded a very rich body of work and has led to the development of new geoarchaeological methods and important theoretical advances. Since its launch in 1986, this journal has regularly published papers on geoarchaeological research in Egypt and the Nile Valley. The 17 papers presented here (and available below as free downloads) were published in Geoarchaeology between 1988 and 2008. They exemplify a range of approaches, settings and timescales whilst highlighting the value of interdisciplinary research in the study of the human past. This special issue includes classic work by some of the most influential archaeologists and geoarchaeologists to have worked in the region. While there is some overlap in approach and themes, the papers are grouped under the following headings:
1. Palaeoclimates, human settlement, and geochronology
2. Contexts, site formation and the analysis of cultural materials
3. Long-term river channel and flood dynamics
This collection was launched to coincide with a major international symposium on Landscape Archaeology, Egypt and the Mediterranean World held in Cairo from September 19th to 21st 2010 under the auspices of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO). It will be of particular interest to all who are concerned with long-term human-environment interactions in the Nile Valley and the desert landscapes of the Eastern Sahara.
1. Palaeoclimates, human settlement, and geochronology
Holocene climatic change and human settlement between the central Sahara and the Nile Valley: Archaeological and geomorphological results
Olaf Bubenzer, Heiko Riemer
2007
Geochronology and climate change of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Darb el Arba'in Desert, Eastern Sahara
C. Vance Haynes Jr.
2001
Holocene playa deposits of Farafra Oasis, Egypt, and their palaeoclimatic and geoarchaeological significance
F. A. Hassan, B. Barich, M. Mahmoud, M. A. Hemdan
2001
Geoarchaeology of the Holocene climatic optimum at Nabta Playa, Southwestern Desert, Egypt
Romuald Schild, Fred Wendorf
2001
Wadi Bakht revisited: Holocene climate change and prehistoric occupation in the Gilf Kebir region of the Eastern Sahara, SW Egypt
Jörg Linstädter, Stefan Kröpelin
2004
A reconstruction of Quaternary pluvial environments and human occupations using stratigraphy and geochronology of fossil-spring tufas, Kharga Oasis, Egypt
Jennifer R. Smith, Robert Giegengack, Henry P. Schwarcz, Mary M. A. McDonald, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Alicia L. Hawkins, Charles S. Churcher
2004
Radiocarbon chronologies for prehistoric human occupation and hydroclimatic change in Egypt and Northern Sudan
Kathleen Nicoll
2001
2. Contexts, site formation, and the analysis of cultural materials
An Acheulian site near Bir Kiseiba in the Darb el Arba'in Desert, Egypt
C. Vance Haynes Jr., T. A. Maxwell, A. El Hawary, K. A. Nicoll, S. Stokes
1997
Geologic contexts of the Acheulian (Middle Pleistocene) in the Eastern Sahara
Christopher L. Hill
2001
Petrogenesis of artifact-bearing fossil-spring tufa deposits from Kharga Oasis, Egypt
Kathleen Nicoll, Robert Giegengack, Maxine Kleindienst
1999
Prehistoric occupation of Late Quaternary landscapes near Kharga Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt
Rolfe D. Mandel, Alan H. Simmons
2001
Correlation between petrography, NAA, and ICP analyses: Application to early bronze Egyptian pottery from Canaan
Naomi Porat, Joseph Yellin, Lisa Heller-Kallai, Ludwik Halicz
1991
3. Long-term river channel and flood dynamics
Paleorivers and geoarchaeology in the southern Egyptian Sahara
William P. McHugh, John F. McCauley, C. Vance Haynes, Carol S. Breed, Gerald G. Schaber
1988
Stratigraphic landscape analysis: Charting the Holocene movements of the Nile at Karnak through ancient Egyptian time
J. M. Bunbury, A. Graham, M. A. Hunter
2007
Short contribution: Nile flow failure at the end of the Old Kingdom, Egypt: Strontium isotopic and petrologic evidence
Jean-Daniel Stanley, Michael D. Krom, Robert A. Cliff, Jamie C. Woodward
2003
Late Bronze Age paleogeography along the ancient Ways of Horus in Northwest Sinai, Egypt
Stephen O. Moshier, Ali El-Kalani
2008
Short contribution: Buried Canopic channel identified near Egypt's Nile delta coast with radar (SRTM) imagery
Jean-Daniel Stanley, Thomas F. Jorstad
2006
Ane earlier special issie of Geoarchaeology is 25 Papers from 25 Years: A Special Virtual Issue of Geoarchaeology, April 2010
Other one off journals cited in AWOL are here, here, here, and here
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