The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the early to mid-Holocene landscape archaeology of the Fayum north shore, Egypt / Edited by Simon J. Holdaway and Willeke Wendrich.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
Contents:
The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the Fayum in context / Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, and Willeke Wendrich. The Fayum in the context of northeast Africa / Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, and Willeke Wendrich -- Approaches to paleoenvironment and landscape use / Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Ramsay, Willeke Wendrich, and Joshua J. Emmitt -- The L Basin archaeological record / Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, Annelies Koopman, Veerle Linseele, and Willeke Wendrich -- The K Basin archaeological record -- Kom K / Willeke Wendrich, Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, Veerle Linseele, Joshua J. Emmitt, and John M. Marston -- The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the evidence considered / Simon J. Holdaway, Willeke Wendrich, and Rebecca Phillipps -- The desert Fayum reinvestigated : the Fayum in context / Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, and Willeke Wendrich.
Summary:
"The Neolithic in Egypt is thought to have arrived via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia. Here we suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum, with the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced to the Fayum from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt."--Publisher summary.
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