Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project
by Marcia F. Wiseman
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781785705601
Pub Date: 2016-10-24
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
172 Pages
This volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997). Four abstracts from papers not submitted to the published volume are also included, as is the original conference programme.
Definitive analysis of over 10,000 sherds of pottery from early and mid-Holocene sites in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis, providing for the first time a detailed discussion of ceramic sequences, diversity and innovation in local pottery-making and insights into the scoial practices and inter connectedness of desert groups in the Ancient Sahara.
The first major synthesis of Ptolemaic Period activity in the Egyptian Western Desert, with a corpus of Ptolemaic pottery and a catalogue of Ptolemaic sites from Dakhleh Oasis.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project
Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli and Colin A. Hope
Price: $150.00
ISBN: 9781842175248
Pub Date: 2013-01-08
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
512 Pages
The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt.
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