di Serena Nicolini
The First Nile Cataract region (Egypt) has always played a crucial role as a border area and a crossroads for cultures and people living in adjacent landscapes characterised by different cultures. The region has its central point in the modern city of Aswan, but it extends up to the Kom Ombo Plain in the north and reaches the Bab el-Kalabsha in the south, comprehending the Eastern and Western Deserts.
This volume mainly focuses on the complex mixing of archaeological evidence in a geographical and natural environment whose changes were impacted by and influenced by human activities and needs. Integrating various datasets, from historical and archaeological ones to the remote sensing observation of large areas, represents a challenging aspect of this research.
An area corresponding to ca. 18,000 km2 has been selected, and the chronological framework has been chosen to cover a considerable period, from the beginning of the 5th millennium BCE to the final Byzantine period. Throughout prehistoric and historical periods, this region has witnessed a mix of cultural traditions which have reflected on its rich archaeological record and ethnographic heritage: the Egyptian, Nubian, desert nomads, and later, Persian, Greek and Roman components are only some of the cultural entities which interacted within the landscape. A dynamic human approach to the landscape was evolving through time and contributing to the transformations of the environment.
Multi-temporality and multifunctionality appear as two essential aspects when the archaeological evidence of the First Nile Cataract region is considered in its geographical and topographical setting as a general context for settlement patterns and resource exploitation analyses.
Serena Nicolini obtained her PhD in archaeological research methods at the University of Bologna in 2023. This volume represents a revised version of the project’s results and reflects her interests in landscape archaeology and spatial analysis in the Nile Valley and Eastern Sahara.
She has worked in Egypt as a member of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project since 2014 and has collaborated on other projects. She has published, together with other colleagues, papers derived from presentations during international conferences, discussing remote sensing and digital reconstructions of the landscape from an archaeological point of view. Her research interests span rock art and epigraphic analysis to archaeological excavations and cover a broad chronological period, from the Predynastic to the Roman period in Egypt.
ArgomentoArcheologiaDisciplinaStoriaFormato210 × 297 mmPagine160Anno2024ConfezioneBrossuraLinguaIngleseISBN9791254775219ISBN online9791254775226Materiali didatticiOnline resources - Nicolini 2024
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