An edition of Desert road archaeology in ancient Egypt and beyond
(2013)
Desert road archaeology in ancient Egypt and beyond
by Heiko Riemer and Frank Förster
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Social archaeology, Landscape archaeology, Human ecology, Deserts, History, Land settlement, AntiquitiesPlaces
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Desert road archaeology in ancient Egypt and beyond
2013, Heinrich-Barth-Institut
in English
392768841X 9783927688414
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Table of Contents
Ancient desert roads: towards establishing a new field of archaeological research / Heiko Riemer & Frank Förster
Top down: new satellite data and ground-truth data as base for a reconstruction of ancient caravan routes: examples from the Western Desert of Egypt / Olaf Bubenzer & Andreas Bolten
Lessons in landscape learning: the dawn of long-distance travel and navigation in Egypt's Western Desert from prehistoric to Old Kingdom times / Heiko Riemer
Desert travel and transport in ancient Egypt: an overview based on epigraphic, pictorial and archaeological evidence / Heidi Köpp
The realm of "two deserts": Siwah Oasis between east and west / Klaus Peter Kuhlmann
Footprints in the sand: recent long-distance camel trade in the Libyan Desert (northeast Chad/southeast Libya) / Meike Meerpohl
Donkeys to El-Fasher or how the present informs the past / Frank Förster, Heiko Riemer & Moez Mahir, with an appendix by Frank Darius
The Girga Road: Abu Ziyâr, Tundaba, and the integration of the southern oases into the Pharaonic state / John Coleman Darnell, with the assistance of Deborah Darnell
Evidence of desert routes across northern Kharga (Egypt's Western Desert) / Corinna Rossi & Salima Ikram
Broadening horizons: distant places and travels in Dakhla and the Western Desert at the end of the 3rd millennium / Laure Pantalacci
Beyond Dakhla: the Abu Ballas Trail in the Libyan Desert (SW Egypt) / Frank Förster
The Pharaonic potter of the Abu Ballas Trail: 'filling stations' along a desert highway in southwestern Egypt / Stan Hendrickx, Frank Förster & Merel Eyckerman
Prehistoric trails in the environs of Karkur Talh, Jebel Uweinat / András Zboray
Donkeys and water: demotic ostraca in Cologne as evidence for desert travel between Oxyrhynchos and the Bahariya Oasis in the 2nd century BC / Heinz-Josef Thissen
Ancient desert and quarry roads on the west bank of the Nile in the First Cataract region / Per Storemyr, Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal & Adel Kelany
Tracks in the Bayuda desert: the project 'Wadi Abu Dom Itinerary' (W.A.D.I.) / Angelika Lohwasser
A stroll along the corniche?: coastal routes between the Nile Delta and Cyrenaica in the Late Bronze Age / Steven Snape
Water, routes and rangelands: ancient traffic and grazing infrastructure in the eastern Marmarica (northwestern Egypt) / Thomas Vetter, Anna-Katharina Rieger & Heike Möller
"A highway out of Egypt": the main road from Egypt to Canaan / James K. Hoffmeier & Stephen O. Moshier
A road to the Arabian Peninsula in the reign of Ramesses III / Claire Somaglino & Pierre Taller
"We went forth into the desert land...": retracing the routes between the Nile Valley and the Hatnub travertine quarries / Ian Shaw
The ancient harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis and how to get there: new evidence of Pharaonic seafaring expeditions in the Red Sea / Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich & Andrea Manzo
Communication, travel, and transportation in Egypt's Eastern Desert during Roman times (1st to 3rd century AD) / Adam Bülow-Jacobsen.
Edition Notes
"The present volume ... compiles, for the first time, a network of ancient routes that open up the 'nowhere' of the deserts in and around Egypt."--Page 10.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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