The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated : The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt Hardback
Edited by Simon J. Holdaway, Willeke Wendrich
Part of the Monumenta Archaeologica series
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The Neolithic in Egypt is thought to have arrived via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia.
In this volume, the authors advocate an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum.
They present 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.
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- Pages:282 pages
- Publisher:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
- Publication Date:30/04/2017
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:282 pages
- Publisher:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
- Publication Date:30/04/2017
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- ISBN:9781938770098
