Africa Praehistorica 14, Köln 2002
TIDES OF THE DESERT - GEZEITEN DER WÜSTE
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ENVIROMENTAL HISTORY OF AFRICA IN
HONOUR OF RUDOLPH KUPER / BEITRÄGE ZU ARCHÄOLOGIE UND UMWELTGESCHICHTE
AFRIKAS ZU EHREN VON RUDOLPH KUPER
(ed. by Jennerstrasse 8)
- 560 pp.
- 272 figures (line illustrations and bw. photographs)
- 47 tables
- 1 colour photograph
- 4 enclosures
- hardcover, half linen-bound, size 21 x 28 cm
Contents:
Prolog
Jennerstrasse 8, The Editors: Eine Festschrift für Rudolph Kuper; Desmond Clark: A Note of Appreciation of Rudolph Kuper's Research in the Western Desert of Egypt and on Holocene and Earlier Localities and Problems needing Investigation; Jens Lüning: Ä3 ruft Ä1 - Ganz persönliche Eindrücke bei einer Ägyptenreise mit Rudolph Kuper.Archaeology in Egypt
Pierre M. Vermeersch: The Egyptian Nile Valley during the Early Holocene; Fred Wendorf & Romuald Schild: Role of Storage in the Neolithic of the Egyptian Sahara; Baldur Gabriel: Neolithic Camp Sites in the Sahara - Anticipation of Future Research; Klaus Bokelmann: Einige Libyan-Desert-Glass-Artefakte des Atérien aus der Glass Area in Südwest-Ägypten; Joachim Hahn†: Ein Klingendepot am Djebel Kamil (Ägypten); Birgit Gehlen, Karin Kindermann, Jörg Linstädter & Heiko Riemer: The Holocene Occupation of the Eastern Sahara - Regional Chronologies and Supra-regional Developments in four Areas in the Absolute Desert; Romuald Schild, Michal Kobusiewicz, Fred Wendorf, Joel D. Irish, Jacek Kabacinski & Halina Królik: Gebel Ramlah Playa (Egypt); Klaus Peter Kuhlmann: The "Oasis Bypath" or The Issue of Desert Trade in Pharaonic Times; Wim Van Neer & Steven E. Sidebotham: Animal Remains from the fourth-sixth Century AD Military Installations near Abu Sha'ar at the Red Sea Coast (Egypt).Archaeology in Sudan
Lech Krzyzaniak: Early Khartoum Pottery from Kadero; Jacques Reinold: Néolithique du Soudan central et de Haute Nubie - données sur le matérial céramique; Brigitte Gratien: La fin du royaume Kerma - la situation dans l'arrière-pays; Isabella Caneva: Second Millennium BC Pastoral Cultures in the Nile Valley - The Ghosts of the Khartoum Province?; Werner Schuck: Steinzeitliche Gräber im Wadi Shaw (Nordsudan); Christian Simon†, Roland Menk† & Christiane Kramar: The Human Remains from Wadi Shaw (Sudan) - A Study of Physical Anthropology and Paleopathology; Friederike Jesse & Birgit Keding: Death in the Desert - Burials in the Wadi Howar Region (Eastern Sahara); Winfried Henke, Erik Becker & Michael Stang: Menschliche Skelettreste aus dem Wadi Howar (Sudan) - vorläufige anthropologische Befunde; Werner Schön: Survey before GPS - Some Remarks on Archaeological Sites on the Northern Bank of the Middle Wadi Howar (Sudan); Hubert Berke: An Unusual Fireplace in the Middle Wadi Howar (Sudan); Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath & Angela von den Driesch: Ichthyological Diversity in the Holocene Palaeodrainage Systems of Western Nubia; Achilles Gautier, Veerle Linseele & Wim Van Neer: The Fauna of the Early Khartoum Occupation on Jebel Umm Marrahi (Khartoum Province, Sudan).Geo-Sciences in Northern Africa
Horst Hagedorn: Auf den Spuren Gustav Nachtigals im Borku-Bergland (Tschad); Eberhard Klitzsch: Das Wasser der Wüste - ein kurzer Bezug zur Besiedlungsgeschichte einer Wüste und zu deren Zukunft; Bernd Meissner mit einem Beitrag von Ulla Ripke: Kartierung entlegener Regionen - Chancen und Risiken der Weiterentwicklung der Kartier-methoden durch Fernerkundung und navigations-gestütztes GIS-Management; Nicole Petit-Maire: Large Interglacial Lakes in the Saharo-Arab Desert Belt; Philipp Hoelzmann: Lacustrine Sediments as Indicators of Climate Change during the Late Quaternary in Western Nubia (Eastern Sahara); Helga Besler with a contribution by Alexandra Hilgers: The Formation of Artefact-stabilized Dunes near Lower Wadi Howar (Sudan); Ginette Aumassip: Les formations quaternaires du secteur de Tin Hanakaten (Tassili n Ajjer, Algérie); Stefan Kröpelin: Damage to Natural and Cultural Heritage by Petroleum Exploration and Desert Tourism in the Messak Settafet (Central Sahara, Southwest Libya).Sahara and Beyond
John Alexander: The Global Significance of African Civilisation; Lutz Fiedler: Artefakte, Denken und Kultur; Andrew B. Smith: The Pastoral Landscape in Saharan Prehistory; Angela E. Close: Sinai, Sahara, Sahel - The Introduction of Domestic Caprines to Africa; Karim Sadr: Ancient Pastoralists in the Sudan and in South Africa; Hans Back: "Jouets chameau" - Steinartefakte der Nomadenkinder; Peter Breunig & Katharina Neumann: Continuity or Discontinuity? The 1st Millennium BC-Crisis in West African Prehistory; Manfred Eggert: Southern Cameroun and the Settlement of the Equatorial Rainforest - Early Ceramics from Fieldwork in 1997 and 1998-99; Jürgen Richter: The Giraffe People - Namibia's Prehistoric Artists; Ralf Vogelsang: Rock Art in the Kaokoland?; Tilman Lenssen-Erz: Art for Art's Sake in Rock Art Research - On the Ethics of Archaeological Documentation.