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The excellent work of the undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Salento, who v... more The excellent work of the undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Salento, who volunteered to undertake a variety of tasks throughout the conference, is gratefully acknowledged. For assistance in the preliminary stages of formatting the volume we would like to thank Nate Nagy, while the final result is due to the careful and professional work of Bruce Parr. On a technical note, the volume includes a programme of the papers presented at Lecce, not all of which are published in this volume; those presented here have been grouped into broad chronological periods. As a wide variety of spellings has been used by the contributing authors for place names in the Western Desert, not only resulting from local linguistic differences, but also conventions employed in the languages of the contributing scholars, and the use of writings that have become accepted both over time and through regularity of use within one language, it was thought necessary to introduce some degree of standardisation. This has been done with the advice of Professor Fred Leemhuis, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Groningen, and Director of the Qasr Dakhleh Project. Thus, where authors prefer to use a particular conventional spelling that varies notably from what Arabists might use as a formal transcription of Standard Arabic, then the latter is provided in parentheses when the popular spelling is first used. In some cases the formal transcription has been adopted throughout when variations in spelling have resulted from an incorrect rendering of the Arabic, or when authors have agreed to the formal transcription.
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Essays on Heritage, Tourism and Society in the MENA Region
Radiocarbon, 1989
Unlike wood charcoal, as found admixed to other cultural remains, ostrich eggshells can be of mor... more Unlike wood charcoal, as found admixed to other cultural remains, ostrich eggshells can be of more direct significance in 14C dating, especially if they were processed to form, eg, eggshell beads. Normally the time span between laying the egg and working the shell beads is short enough to be negligible for 14C dating purposes. Another advantage of eggshell dating is that the carbonate of the shell seems to keep exceptionally well over the millennia, whereas, especially in surface sites in a desert environment, organic material such as wood, charcoal or bone protein tends to decompose. With few comparative test samples, we thought ostrich egg samples would yield 14C dates somewhat too young. The deviation is, however, balanced by performing 13C analyses and a correction for isotope fractionation of ca 350yr.
Cahier De Recherches De L Institut De Papyrologie Et D Egyptologie De Lille, 1995
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 1992
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 1992
Bulletin De La Societe Francaise D Egyptologie, 2003
Antiquity, 2001
In 1990, about 30 km southwest of Dakhla oasis, the most remote settlement in Egypt’s Western Des... more In 1990, about 30 km southwest of Dakhla oasis, the most remote settlement in Egypt’s Western Desert, a hieroglyphic rock inscription was discovered that turned out to be the first clear evidence of an Ancient Egyptian presence so far into the Sahara (Burkard 1997). The short text states that a higher official named Meri went out to meet (?) oasis dwellers. Details of translation, interpretation and palaeographic dating of the text are a matter of discussion among Egyptologists, but it clearly seems to be of Old or Early Middle Kingdom origin. The home of the ‘oasis dwellers’ can reasonably be inferred as lying further west or southwest. However, the nearest places with permanent water in these directions are the Kufra Oasis in Libya and the wells of Djebel Uweinat, which lie, respectively, some 600 km and 500 lan away. How was it possible to master such distances under the then already prevailing hyperarid conditions by the only available means of transportation, a train of donkeys...
Geschichte des Forschungsprojektes "Siedlungsarchäologie des Neolithikums der Aldenhovener Platte... more Geschichte des Forschungsprojektes "Siedlungsarchäologie des Neolithikums der Aldenhovener Platte" im Rheinschen Braunkohlenrevier, Rheinland, Deutschland (1965-1981).
The excellent work of the undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Salento, who v... more The excellent work of the undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Salento, who volunteered to undertake a variety of tasks throughout the conference, is gratefully acknowledged. For assistance in the preliminary stages of formatting the volume we would like to thank Nate Nagy, while the final result is due to the careful and professional work of Bruce Parr. On a technical note, the volume includes a programme of the papers presented at Lecce, not all of which are published in this volume; those presented here have been grouped into broad chronological periods. As a wide variety of spellings has been used by the contributing authors for place names in the Western Desert, not only resulting from local linguistic differences, but also conventions employed in the languages of the contributing scholars, and the use of writings that have become accepted both over time and through regularity of use within one language, it was thought necessary to introduce some degree of standardisation. This has been done with the advice of Professor Fred Leemhuis, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Groningen, and Director of the Qasr Dakhleh Project. Thus, where authors prefer to use a particular conventional spelling that varies notably from what Arabists might use as a formal transcription of Standard Arabic, then the latter is provided in parentheses when the popular spelling is first used. In some cases the formal transcription has been adopted throughout when variations in spelling have resulted from an incorrect rendering of the Arabic, or when authors have agreed to the formal transcription.
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Essays on Heritage, Tourism and Society in the MENA Region
Radiocarbon, 1989
Unlike wood charcoal, as found admixed to other cultural remains, ostrich eggshells can be of mor... more Unlike wood charcoal, as found admixed to other cultural remains, ostrich eggshells can be of more direct significance in 14C dating, especially if they were processed to form, eg, eggshell beads. Normally the time span between laying the egg and working the shell beads is short enough to be negligible for 14C dating purposes. Another advantage of eggshell dating is that the carbonate of the shell seems to keep exceptionally well over the millennia, whereas, especially in surface sites in a desert environment, organic material such as wood, charcoal or bone protein tends to decompose. With few comparative test samples, we thought ostrich egg samples would yield 14C dates somewhat too young. The deviation is, however, balanced by performing 13C analyses and a correction for isotope fractionation of ca 350yr.
Cahier De Recherches De L Institut De Papyrologie Et D Egyptologie De Lille, 1995
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 1992
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 1992
Bulletin De La Societe Francaise D Egyptologie, 2003
Antiquity, 2001
In 1990, about 30 km southwest of Dakhla oasis, the most remote settlement in Egypt’s Western Des... more In 1990, about 30 km southwest of Dakhla oasis, the most remote settlement in Egypt’s Western Desert, a hieroglyphic rock inscription was discovered that turned out to be the first clear evidence of an Ancient Egyptian presence so far into the Sahara (Burkard 1997). The short text states that a higher official named Meri went out to meet (?) oasis dwellers. Details of translation, interpretation and palaeographic dating of the text are a matter of discussion among Egyptologists, but it clearly seems to be of Old or Early Middle Kingdom origin. The home of the ‘oasis dwellers’ can reasonably be inferred as lying further west or southwest. However, the nearest places with permanent water in these directions are the Kufra Oasis in Libya and the wells of Djebel Uweinat, which lie, respectively, some 600 km and 500 lan away. How was it possible to master such distances under the then already prevailing hyperarid conditions by the only available means of transportation, a train of donkeys...
Geschichte des Forschungsprojektes "Siedlungsarchäologie des Neolithikums der Aldenhovener Platte... more Geschichte des Forschungsprojektes "Siedlungsarchäologie des Neolithikums der Aldenhovener Platte" im Rheinschen Braunkohlenrevier, Rheinland, Deutschland (1965-1981).