Origin and Early Development od Food-Producing Cultures In North-Eastern Africa

Opis

Materiały z miedzynarodowej  konferencji naukowej, która miała miejsce pod Poznaniem w Dymaczewie w dniach 9-13 września 1980 roku.Konferencja była zorganizowana i prowadzona przez dr Lecha Krzyżaniaka i dr Michała Kobusiewicza

Spis treści

SPIS TREŚCI

List of Contents

From the organizers and Editors

List of Members of the symposium . .

Address to the Participants (by Jan Źak)

Preface ( by Fred Wendorf)

Introduction

DESMOND CLARK

The domestication process in Northeast Africa: ecological change and adaptive

strategies

I.General theme

ACHILLES GAUTIER

Quaternary mammals and archaeozoology of Egypt and the Sudan: a survey

JOHN A. ALEXANDER

The end of the moving frontier in the Neolithic of North-Eastern Africa 

ABBAS S. MOHAMMED-ALI

Evidence of early food-production in Northeast Africa: an alternative model

MARGHERITA MUSSI

Un modćle des dćbuts de l'agriculture au procheiorient

WHITNEY DAVIS

The earliest art in the Nile Valley

ERIKA ENDESFELDER

Social and economic development towards the end of the Predynastic period in

Egypt.

BRUCE G. TRIGGER

The mainlines of socio-economic development in dynastic Egypt to the end of the

Old Kingdom

PETER L. SHINNIE

The mainlines of socio-economic' development in the Sudan in Post-Neolithic times

II.Late Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of Egypt

FRED WENDORF and Romuald  SCHII.D

Some implications of Late Palaeolithic cereal exploitation at Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper

Egypt).

ANN STEMLER and RICHARD H. FALK

Evidence of grains from the site of Wadi Kubbaniya (Upper Egypt)

PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH

Subsistence activities on the Late Palaeolithic sites of Elkab (Upper Egypt)

DOUGLAS R. CONNOR

The Kiseiba Plateau: a systematic surface survey in Egypt's Western Desert

MORGAŃ BANKS

Early ceramic-bearing occupations in the Egyptian western Desert

ANGELA E. CLOSE

Early Holocene raw material economies in the Western Desert of Egypt

MICHAŁ KOBUSIEWICZ

The multicultural Early Holocene site E-79-4 at Ghorab Playa, Western Desert of

Egypt.

MARGHERITA MUSSI, ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARATTINI

More on the Terminal Palaeolithic of the Fayum Depression

ROBERT J. WENKE

Early agriculture in the Southern Fayum Depression: some test survey results and

research implications

MARIA CASINI

Neolithic and predynastic in the Fayum

ANTHONY J. MILLS

Research in the Dakhleh oasis

THOMAS R. HAVS

Predynastic development in upper Egypt

FEKRI A. HASSAN

Toward a model of agricultural developments in Predynastic Egypt

STAN HENDRICKX

The Late Predynastic cemetery at Elkab (Upper Egypt)

DiRK HUYGE

Rock drawings at the mouth of Wadi Hellal, Elkab (Upper Egypt)

MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN

Predynastic cultural`ecology and patterns of settlement in Upper Egypt as viewed

from Hierakonpolis

BOLESŁAW GINTER and JANUSZ K. KOZŁOWSKI

TheTarifian and the origin of the Naqadian .

BEATRIX MIDANT-REYNES

La taille des couteaux de silex du type Gebel-el-Arak et la dćnomination du silex en

ćgyrptien

DIETRICH WILDUNG

Terminal prehistory of the Nile Delta: theses

III. Egyptian Varia

FIORENCE BRAUNSTEI N-SILVESTRE

Quand le cheval arrive-t-il en Egypte?

PRENTIS S. de JESUS

Comments on the development of pyrotechnology in early societies

ALESSANDRA NIBBI

Some Early Dynastic clues r6lating to the environment of Ancient Egypt

IV. Late Palaeolithic, ''Early Khartoum" and the Neolithic of the Sudan

EUGEN STROUHAL

Craniometric analysis of the Late Palaeolithic population of the Wadi Halfa region

(Lower Nubia)

JEAN LECLANT

Les gravures rupestres du Gebel Gorgod (Nubie)

ISABELLA CANEVA and ANNALISA ZARATTINI

Saggai: a settlement of hunter-fishers north of Khartoum

TIGANI EL MAHI

An interpretation of the faunal remains from EI Zakiab site (Central Sudan)

LECH KRZYŻANIAK

The Neolithic habitation at Kadero (Central Sudan)

ACHILLES GAUTIER

The fauna of the Neolithic site of Kadero (Central Sudan)

MELANIA KLICHOWSKA

Plants of the Neolithic Kadero (Central Sudan): a palaeoethnobotanical study of the

plant impręssions on pottery

ELŻBIETA PROMIŃSKA

The demography of the populations from Kadero (Central Sudan)

TADEUSZ DZIERŻYKRAY-ROGALSKI

Remarks on the position of human remains in the Neolithic graves at Kadero (Central

Sudan)

MAREK CHŁODNTCKI

Pottery from the Neolithic settlement at Kadero (Central Sudan)

JACEK NOWAKOWSKI

The typology of lithic implements from the Neolithic settlement at Kadero (Central

Sudan)

ISABELLA CANEVA

Early Neolithic settlement and later cemetery at Geili (Central Sudan).

FRANCIS GEUS

Excavations at EI Kadada and the Neolithic of the Central Sudan

V. The Terminal Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Sahara and the Maghreb

ROMUALD SCHILD and FRED WENDORF

The earliest, Holocene production of cereals in the Egyptian Sahara

BURCHARD BRBNTJES

Agriculture, domestication and the rock-art

BALDUR GABRIEL

Great plains and mountain areas as habitats for the Neolithic man in the Sahara

BARBARA E. BARICH

The Epipalaeolithic-ceramic groups of Libyan Sahara: notes for an economic model

of the cultural development in the West-Central Sahara

BARBARA E. BARICH, GIORGIO BELLUOMINI, FRANCESCOPAOLO BONADONNA, MARISA

ALESSIO and LUIGiA MANFRA

Ecological and cultural relevance of the recent new radiocarbon dates from

Libyan Sahara

GINETTE AUMASSIP

Modes de vie nćolithique dans le Sahara Oriental Algerien

MARK A. W. MILBURN

Some enigmatic stone artifacts of the Eastern Sahara: "rondins de pierre"

COLETTE ROUBET et PATRICK L. CARTER

La domestication au Maghreb: ćtat de la question

DAVID LUBELL

The Capsian palaeoeconomy in the Maghreb

VI. The Neolithic of the East Africa

DIANE P. GIFFORD-GONZALEZ and JOHN KIMENGICH

Faunal evidence for early stock-keeping in the Central Rift of Kenya: preliminary

findings.

JOHN- R. F. BOWER

Subsistence-settlement systems of the Pastoral Neolithic in East Africa

CHARLES M. NELSON and JOHN KIMENGICH

Early phases of pastoral adaptation in the Central Highlands of Kenya

DAVID W. PHILLIPSON

Aspects of early food production in Northern Kenya

Epilogue

by J. DESMONi) CŁARK)

Resolution adopted by the participants in the Symposium