Dirk Huyge

Biographic Data

ID1177347
NAMEDirk Huyge
GIVEN NAMESDirk
FAMILY NAMEHuyge
SIGNATUREHUYGE D
AFFILIATIONSRoyal Museums of Art and History
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS37
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Remove that Pyramid

    Yann Tristant, Claes W et al.EDITORBOOKRemove That Pyramid!2021

    status: Published

  • The Painted Tomb, rock art and the recycling of Predynastic Egyptian imagery

    Dirk HuygeARTICLEArchéo-Nil Revue de la société…2014

    Using a variety of evidence, both from prehistoric Upper Egyptian rock art and representations on Predynastic archaeological objects, this contribution attempts to explain the apparently incongruous iconography of the famous Painted Tomb (Tomb 100) at Hierakonpolis. It proposes that the decoration of this elite burial may only be properly understood if one accepts a Naqada III modernization of the original Naqada IIC composition. Such a dynamic c…

  • L’art rupestre pléistocène en Afrique du nord

    Open AccessDirk Huyge, Dimitri A G Vandenberghe et al.ARTICLEPalethnologie2013

    L’existence d’un art rupestre pré-holocène dans le nord de l’Afrique a été un sujet de débat pendant plusieurs décennies. Jusqu’à présent, les plus anciens pétroglyphes identifiés en Afrique du Nord avec un certain degré de certitude, des motifs communément appelés « piège à poissons » associés à des paysages figuratifs et géométriques de el‐Hosh en Haute Égypte, ont été attribués aux débuts de l’Holocène et sont provisoirement datés autour de 9 …

  • Pleistocene Rock Art in North Africa

    Open AccessDirk Huyge, Dimitri A G Vandenberghe et al.ARTICLEPalethnologie2013

    The existence of pre-Holocene rock art in North Africa has been a subject of debate for several decades. Thus far, the oldest petroglyphs identified in North Africa with some degree of certainty, the so-called “fish trap” motifs and associated figurative and geometric scenery of el‐Hosh in Upper Egypt, have been ascribed to the Early Holocene and are tentatively dated to ~9 000 cal BP. It has now become clear that even older art, of fully Pleisto…

  • El‐Kab

    Open AccessDirk HuygeCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Upper Egyptian site of El‐Kab (ancient Egyptian Nekheb, Greco‐Roman Eileithyiaspolis) is extensive (about 16 sq km) and contains monuments from all periods of Egyptian history from the Final Paleolithic (ca. 7000 BCE ) down to Coptic times. The principal deity of El‐Kab was the vulture‐goddess Nekhbet (“She of Nekheb”), who, with the cobra‐goddess Wadjet of Lower Egypt, was one of the two tutelary deities of pharaoh himself, as well as being …

  • Rock art

    Open AccessDirk HuygeCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Rock art, to be defined as non‐utilitarian, non‐textual anthropic markings on natural rock surfaces, was an extremely widespread graphical practice in ancient Egypt.

  • First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa

    Open AccessDirk Huyge, Dimitri A G Vandenberghe et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2011Cited by: 34References: 20

    Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Afr…

  • Late Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Rock Art in Egypt

    Dirk HuygeARTICLEArchéo-Nil Revue de la société…2009

    Huyge Dirk. Late Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Rock Art in Egypt: Qurta and El-Hosh. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°19, 2009. L’art rupestre de la vallée du Nil et des déserts égyptiens. pp. 108-120

  • L'art le plus ancien de la Vallée du Nil

    Dirk HuygeARTICLEArchéo-Nil Revue de la société…2002

    Huyge Dirk. L'art le plus ancien de la Vallée du Nil : les pêcheurs d'EI-Hosh. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°12, 2002. Actualité de la recherche prédynastique : les terrains de fouilles. 1-La Haute-Egypte et les déserts. pp. 121-137

  • Un cimetière particulier de la deuxième dynastie à Elkab

    Stan Hendrickx, Dirk Huyge et al.ARTICLEArchéo-Nil Revue de la société…2002

    Hendrickx Stan, Huyge Dirk, Warmenbol Eugène. Un cimetière particulier de la deuxième dynastie à Elkab. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°12, 2002. Actualité de la recherche prédynastique : les terrains de fouilles. 1-La Haute-Egypte et les déserts. pp. 47-54

  • Dating Egypt's oldest ‘art

    Open AccessDirk Huyge, Alan Watchman et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2001Cited by: 2References: 5

    Direct dating, using the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14 C method, indicates that some petroglyphs (rock art) at El-Hosh in Upper Egypt pre-date the early 7th millennium BP (mid 6th millennium cal BC), making it the oldest graphic activity recorded in the Nile Valley

  • AMS 14C age determinations of Rapanui (Easter Island) wood sculpture

    Open AccessFrancina Forment, Dirk Huyge et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2001References: 2

    Direct dating, using the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14C method, of a wooden moai kavakava (anthropomorphic woodcarving) in the collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels has given a date of about cal AD 1390-1480. As there are reasons to believe that this age not only regards the raw material but also the carving itself, preserved examples of Easter Island wood sculpture may be much older than previously assumed and p…

  • Battered Bulls

    Open AccessDirk HuygeARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review1998Cited by: 1References: 1

  • De Mesolithische vindplaatsen "Bolderdal" op de Wijvenheide te Zonhoven

    Dirk HuygeARTICLEArchaeologia Belgica1987

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