Willeke Wendrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1095677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willeke Wendrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willeke |
| FAMILY NAME | Wendrich |
| SIGNATURE | WENDRICH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3984-2822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Earliest Evidence for Textile Technologies
Recent excavations at Çatalhöyük1 in Anatolia, Turkey have recovered remains of textiles, cordage and basketry that add to finds from previous work at this Neolithic site. Along with occurrences from other sites in the Near East, North Africa and Europe, they enable charting the development of textile techniques. This paper argues that the woven textiles found in Çatalhöyük (6700–6500 cal. BC) fit in a long development in the Palaeolithic, Epipal…
Kom W and X Basin
Basket use, raw materials and arguments on early and Middle Holocene mobility in the Fayum, Egypt
Mifsas Baḥri
The Late Aksumite period in northern Ethiopia has seen very few systematic excavations that have been published. Thus, the four excavation seasons at Mifsas Baḥri contribute significantly to our un
The Desert Fayumin the twenty-first century
From 1924-1928, Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Gardner surveyed and excavated Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites across the Fayum north shore in Egypt, publishing a volume entitledThe Desert Fayum(1934). Since then, a number of researchers have worked in the Fayum (e.g. Wendorf & Schild 1976; Hassan 1986; Wenkeet al. 1988; Kozłowski & Ginter 1989), and most recently the UCLA/RUG/UOA Fayum Project. The long history of research in the area mea…
Reimag(in)ing the Past
The excavation of the site of Kom W in the Fayum region of Egypt during the 1920s by Caton-Thompson and Gardner resulted in the loss of the original surface topography. Detailed section drawings recorded the surface and bottom of excavation, but it was previously difficult to interpret the published images. This article reports on the use of these images to create a three-dimensional representation of the site as it was before and after excavatio…
Early- and middle-Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt
The early and middle Holocene of North Africa was a time of dramatic climatic and social change, including rapid shifts in vegetation communities and the introduction of domesticated plants and animals. Recent research from the Fayum basin of Egypt, which holds archaeological evidence for early use of domesticates, aims to place inhabitants of that region within their contemporary environmental setting. We present here results of wood charcoal an…
The Fayum revisited
The earliest phase of introduction of Southwest Asian domesticated animals into Africa. New evidence from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt and its implications
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
The Fourth-Century AD Expansion of the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Northern Fayum
The Graeco-Roman town of Karanis, founded during the Ptolemaic Period in the north-eastern Fayum in the third century bc and long thought to have been abandoned in the third century ad actually saw a substantial expansion during the fourth century AD. With the creation of an 3 extension towards the west and the expansion of the eastern part, the town grew in both directions. We argue that this expansion may be related to a sudden rise of the wate…
The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt
Geoarchaeological research was performed across an archaeological landscape along the hyperarid northern paleoshores of the modern Lake Qarun, Fayum Basin, Egypt. Objectives were to record sedimentary variability and to consider the correlation between the paleoenvironmental interpretations of these sedimentary data and the observed archaeological record dated to the early and mid‐Holocene. Our approach combines hand‐drilling and stratigraphic de…
Karanis in 3D
Archaeologists tend to express space in two dimensions, drawing maps, plans, and elevations of landscapes or extant architecture. In the human experience, however, space is volume: height, light, color, structure, acoustics, protection, display, obstruction or emphasis of view lines, are all of the greatest importance in how people function in space. Recording and presenting three dimensions can provide important insights into architectural and s…
Basketry, matting, cordage
Reeds, grasses, sedges, rushes, papyrus, palm leaf, and willow rods were used extensively in the creation of basketry, matting, and cordage. Most of the archaeological information we have available is from Egypt, where the dry desert climate provides perfect conditions for the preservation of organic materials. For the classical world our knowledge of basketry, matting, and cordage is mostly drawn from depictions of these activities in reliefs an…
Mid-Holocene occupation of Egypt and global climatic change
Phytoliths and Basketry Materials at Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
Des empreintes sur argile et des phytolithes attestent sans ambiguïté l’existence de la vannerie à Çatalhöyük. On détaille ici les informations complémentaires offertes par une analyse conjointe de la technologie, des usages et des formes de ces vanneries avec l’identification et l’étude de la répartition des végétaux utilisés dans cet artisanat
Identifying low-level food producers
The existence of low-level food producers, neither wholly hunter-gatherers nor wholly agriculturalists, is predicted but hard to prove. Here the authors use lithics, the one ubiquitous common indicator, to show how the detection of missing flakes can indicate degrees of mobility, while mobility in turn shows how people coped with the unpredictable appearance of food resources. In Australia, they were opportunists, armed with a ready cutting edge.…
The Archaeology of Mobility
Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888-1985), Famous Footsteps to Fill
Wendrich Willeke. Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888-1985), Famous Footsteps to Fill. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°17, 2007. Portraits. Les pionniers de la préhistoire en Égypte. pp. 89-106
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
At Empire's Edge
Identifying low-level food producers
The existence of low-level food producers, neither wholly hunter-gatherers nor wholly agriculturalists, is predicted but hard to prove. Here the authors use lithics, the one ubiquitous common indicator, to show how the detection of missing flakes can indicate degrees of mobility, while mobility in turn shows how people coped with the unpredictable appearance of food resources. In Australia, they were opportunists, armed with a ready cutting edge.…
Phytoliths and Basketry Materials at Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
Des empreintes sur argile et des phytolithes attestent sans ambiguïté l’existence de la vannerie à Çatalhöyük. On détaille ici les informations complémentaires offertes par une analyse conjointe de la technologie, des usages et des formes de ces vanneries avec l’identification et l’étude de la répartition des végétaux utilisés dans cet artisanat
The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt
Geoarchaeological research was performed across an archaeological landscape along the hyperarid northern paleoshores of the modern Lake Qarun, Fayum Basin, Egypt. Objectives were to record sedimentary variability and to consider the correlation between the paleoenvironmental interpretations of these sedimentary data and the observed archaeological record dated to the early and mid‐Holocene. Our approach combines hand‐drilling and stratigraphic de…
Reimag(in)ing the Past
The excavation of the site of Kom W in the Fayum region of Egypt during the 1920s by Caton-Thompson and Gardner resulted in the loss of the original surface topography. Detailed section drawings recorded the surface and bottom of excavation, but it was previously difficult to interpret the published images. This article reports on the use of these images to create a three-dimensional representation of the site as it was before and after excavatio…
Earliest Evidence for Textile Technologies
Recent excavations at Çatalhöyük1 in Anatolia, Turkey have recovered remains of textiles, cordage and basketry that add to finds from previous work at this Neolithic site. Along with occurrences from other sites in the Near East, North Africa and Europe, they enable charting the development of textile techniques. This paper argues that the woven textiles found in Çatalhöyük (6700–6500 cal. BC) fit in a long development in the Palaeolithic, Epipal…
Early- and middle-Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt
The early and middle Holocene of North Africa was a time of dramatic climatic and social change, including rapid shifts in vegetation communities and the introduction of domesticated plants and animals. Recent research from the Fayum basin of Egypt, which holds archaeological evidence for early use of domesticates, aims to place inhabitants of that region within their contemporary environmental setting. We present here results of wood charcoal an…
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Kom W and X Basin
The Desert Fayumin the twenty-first century
From 1924-1928, Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Gardner surveyed and excavated Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites across the Fayum north shore in Egypt, publishing a volume entitledThe Desert Fayum(1934). Since then, a number of researchers have worked in the Fayum (e.g. Wendorf & Schild 1976; Hassan 1986; Wenkeet al. 1988; Kozłowski & Ginter 1989), and most recently the UCLA/RUG/UOA Fayum Project. The long history of research in the area mea…
Karanis in 3D
Archaeologists tend to express space in two dimensions, drawing maps, plans, and elevations of landscapes or extant architecture. In the human experience, however, space is volume: height, light, color, structure, acoustics, protection, display, obstruction or emphasis of view lines, are all of the greatest importance in how people function in space. Recording and presenting three dimensions can provide important insights into architectural and s…
At Empire's Edge
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888-1985), Famous Footsteps to Fill
Wendrich Willeke. Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888-1985), Famous Footsteps to Fill. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°17, 2007. Portraits. Les pionniers de la préhistoire en Égypte. pp. 89-106
The Archaeology of Mobility
Identifying low-level food producers
The existence of low-level food producers, neither wholly hunter-gatherers nor wholly agriculturalists, is predicted but hard to prove. Here the authors use lithics, the one ubiquitous common indicator, to show how the detection of missing flakes can indicate degrees of mobility, while mobility in turn shows how people coped with the unpredictable appearance of food resources. In Australia, they were opportunists, armed with a ready cutting edge.…
Basketry, matting, cordage
Reeds, grasses, sedges, rushes, papyrus, palm leaf, and willow rods were used extensively in the creation of basketry, matting, and cordage. Most of the archaeological information we have available is from Egypt, where the dry desert climate provides perfect conditions for the preservation of organic materials. For the classical world our knowledge of basketry, matting, and cordage is mostly drawn from depictions of these activities in reliefs an…
Mid-Holocene occupation of Egypt and global climatic change
Phytoliths and Basketry Materials at Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
Des empreintes sur argile et des phytolithes attestent sans ambiguïté l’existence de la vannerie à Çatalhöyük. On détaille ici les informations complémentaires offertes par une analyse conjointe de la technologie, des usages et des formes de ces vanneries avec l’identification et l’étude de la répartition des végétaux utilisés dans cet artisanat
Karanis in 3D
Archaeologists tend to express space in two dimensions, drawing maps, plans, and elevations of landscapes or extant architecture. In the human experience, however, space is volume: height, light, color, structure, acoustics, protection, display, obstruction or emphasis of view lines, are all of the greatest importance in how people function in space. Recording and presenting three dimensions can provide important insights into architectural and s…
The Fourth-Century AD Expansion of the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Northern Fayum
The Graeco-Roman town of Karanis, founded during the Ptolemaic Period in the north-eastern Fayum in the third century bc and long thought to have been abandoned in the third century ad actually saw a substantial expansion during the fourth century AD. With the creation of an 3 extension towards the west and the expansion of the eastern part, the town grew in both directions. We argue that this expansion may be related to a sudden rise of the wate…
The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt
Geoarchaeological research was performed across an archaeological landscape along the hyperarid northern paleoshores of the modern Lake Qarun, Fayum Basin, Egypt. Objectives were to record sedimentary variability and to consider the correlation between the paleoenvironmental interpretations of these sedimentary data and the observed archaeological record dated to the early and mid‐Holocene. Our approach combines hand‐drilling and stratigraphic de…
The Fayum revisited
The earliest phase of introduction of Southwest Asian domesticated animals into Africa. New evidence from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt and its implications
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Reimag(in)ing the Past
The excavation of the site of Kom W in the Fayum region of Egypt during the 1920s by Caton-Thompson and Gardner resulted in the loss of the original surface topography. Detailed section drawings recorded the surface and bottom of excavation, but it was previously difficult to interpret the published images. This article reports on the use of these images to create a three-dimensional representation of the site as it was before and after excavatio…
Early- and middle-Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt
The early and middle Holocene of North Africa was a time of dramatic climatic and social change, including rapid shifts in vegetation communities and the introduction of domesticated plants and animals. Recent research from the Fayum basin of Egypt, which holds archaeological evidence for early use of domesticates, aims to place inhabitants of that region within their contemporary environmental setting. We present here results of wood charcoal an…
Basket use, raw materials and arguments on early and Middle Holocene mobility in the Fayum, Egypt
Mifsas Baḥri
The Late Aksumite period in northern Ethiopia has seen very few systematic excavations that have been published. Thus, the four excavation seasons at Mifsas Baḥri contribute significantly to our un
The Desert Fayumin the twenty-first century
From 1924-1928, Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Gardner surveyed and excavated Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites across the Fayum north shore in Egypt, publishing a volume entitledThe Desert Fayum(1934). Since then, a number of researchers have worked in the Fayum (e.g. Wendorf & Schild 1976; Hassan 1986; Wenkeet al. 1988; Kozłowski & Ginter 1989), and most recently the UCLA/RUG/UOA Fayum Project. The long history of research in the area mea…
Kom W and X Basin
Earliest Evidence for Textile Technologies
Recent excavations at Çatalhöyük1 in Anatolia, Turkey have recovered remains of textiles, cordage and basketry that add to finds from previous work at this Neolithic site. Along with occurrences from other sites in the Near East, North Africa and Europe, they enable charting the development of textile techniques. This paper argues that the woven textiles found in Çatalhöyük (6700–6500 cal. BC) fit in a long development in the Palaeolithic, Epipal…
Archaeology (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Holocene (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)