Angela E Close
Biographic Data
| ID | 298188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela E Close |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela E |
| FAMILY NAME | Close |
| SIGNATURE | CLOSE A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Egypt During the Last Interglacial: The Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East
Inherited Social Difference at the Edges of Flakes
It is now generally accepted that there are no human societies which are truly egalitarian; this also true of bonobos and chimpanzees, among whom rank is inherited. If it were true of the common ancestor of Homo and Pan, there would have been (inherited) social inequality throughout our hominin ancestry. The problem is how to find it. It is also accepted that artefacts play an active and important role in our social lives; thus, socially defined …
Discussion 1: An Overview of Matters Transitional, From the Outside Looking In
Backed Bladelets Are a Foreign Country
For a period of some ten millennia, the stone-tool industries of North Africa were dominated by microlithic backed bladelets, sometimes almost to the exclusion of any other forms. They were made and used in very small, face-to-face, social contexts and so must have had a role in shaping and negotiating social identity. This can be best seen in the extreme consistency of their forms, both size and shape. Within each of the various cultural context…
Sites E-91-3 and E-91-4: The Early Neolithic of El Adam Type at Nabta Playa
Site E-75-8: Additional Excavation of The Seventh Millennium Site at Nabta Playa
Site E-77-7 Revisited: The Early Neolithic of El Adam Type at El Gebal El Beid Playa
Site E-91-1: An Al Jerar Phase Locality at Nabta Playa
Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
Tanged Arrowheads from Later Stone Age Sites in the Seacow River Valley
Distance and decay: An Uneasy Relationship
The application of the distance-decay model to lithic material from southwestern Egypt explores the relationship between size and portability
Backed Microlith Clusters in Late Holocene Rock Shelters of the Upper Karoo
Recent Backed Microlith Production in Central South Africa
Several rock shelter excavations in the Seacow River Valley of the upper Karoo region of central South Africa confirm that backed microlith production persisted there until at least AD 1800. It is widely assumed that they were used as arrow tip inserts by the prehistoric ancestors of Bushman hunter-gatherers. Microlith reduction strategies are reconstructed from excavated samples covering the last two millennia. Backed bladelets and point product…
Plus Ça Change
Carry That Weight: The Use and Transportation of Stone Tools
Egypt During the Last Interglacial
E-88-1: The Archaeology of the Sandsheet
Egypt, History of
In part because it was one of the greatest political and military powers in antiquity, Egypt had significant contact with the various states and peoples of the Levant. See egyptian relations with canaan. Consequently, much of biblical history is tied in with that of Egypt. This entry, which consists
News and Short Contributions
Reply to Dibble
On the Validity of Middle Paleolithic Tool Types: A Test Case from the Eastern
Using data from a Middle Paleolithic site at Bir Taifawi in the Eastern Sahara, this study tests recent hypotheses that much of the typological variation apparent in the Middle Paleolithic can be traced to intensity of raw material use, and consequent reuse and reshaping of retouched tools. The Saharan material indicates that, although raw material was used quite intensively, the archaeologically defined types were desired forms in their own righ…
Understanding the Late Palaeolithic tools with lustrous edges from the Lower Nile Valley
A new examination of the polish on Late Palaeolithic tools from the Nile identifies some kind of siliceous sheen, but shows no 'sickle gloss'. This is consistent with the demonstration that cereals were not in precociously early cultivation in Egypt
Living on the edge: Neolithic herders in the eastern Sahara
The Eastern Sahara - an arid waste since Neolithic times - is one of the very few regions where one can find, by simple surface survey, little clusters of stone artefacts lying just where they fell 5000 and more years ago. They offer rather direct and specific information about how stone was moved, used and left behind by mobile pastoralists in a marginal environment
A Last Interglacial Fauna from the Eastern Sahara
Recent work on the middle Paleolithic at Bir Tarfawi, in the hyperarid Eastern Sahara (
Identifying Style in Stone Artefacts: A Case Study from the Nile Valley
This paper examines current theories of, and approaches to, style in flaked stone artefacts. In light of the simplicity of flaked stone artefacts and the more or less mixed nature of Stone Age assemblages of any size, it is concluded that, in this context, the most appropriate type of style is the subconscious variety that arises out of choices between functionally equivalent options, and that we should try to eliminate from consideration traits …
Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
Carry That Weight: The Use and Transportation of Stone Tools
The identification of style in lithic artefacts
This paper is concerned with the identification of assemblages made by the same, or socially related, groups. It is believed that variability which can be shown, rather than assumed, to have been determined principally by stylistic factors provides the most reliable means of identifying social groups. A number of attributes of backed bladelets are selected, and various hypotheses proposed which might explain their variability. Tests are then perf…
Current Research and Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Northern Africa, II
This article outlines recent developments in the archaeology of North Africa, and how our views have evolved in the four years since the previous survey. The principal changes, as such, are that in eastern North Africa, for the first time, sties have been found which fall between the Middle and Late Palaeolithic, thus beginning to close a disconcerting gap in the archaeological record; further evidence is available from the eastern and central Sa…
Backed Bladelets Are a Foreign Country
For a period of some ten millennia, the stone-tool industries of North Africa were dominated by microlithic backed bladelets, sometimes almost to the exclusion of any other forms. They were made and used in very small, face-to-face, social contexts and so must have had a role in shaping and negotiating social identity. This can be best seen in the extreme consistency of their forms, both size and shape. Within each of the various cultural context…
Current research and recent radiocarbon dates from Northern Africa
The effect of recent radiocarbon dates from North Africa has largely been to extend the principal phases of prehistory back in time. The Middle Palaeolithic now seems to be essentially beyond the range of the radiocarbon technique, at least in the Eastern part of North Africa, although it may persist later in the West, and, throughout North Africa (with the sole exception of Cyrenaican Libya), there remains a disturbing hiatus between the Middle …
A Survey of the Egyptian Radar Channels: An Example of Applied Archaeology
The shuttle imaging radar experiment (SIR-A) in 1981 revealed a complex of previously unknown, channel-like features beneath the sandsheets of the Eastern Sahara. Since the age(s) and significance of these features could not be otherwise determined, a survey was undertaken of the archaeology of the region to provide at least a minimal age for them and to evaluate their potential as reservoirs of Pleistocene and Holocene rainfall. The results of t…
On the Validity of Middle Paleolithic Tool Types: A Test Case from the Eastern
Using data from a Middle Paleolithic site at Bir Taifawi in the Eastern Sahara, this study tests recent hypotheses that much of the typological variation apparent in the Middle Paleolithic can be traced to intensity of raw material use, and consequent reuse and reshaping of retouched tools. The Saharan material indicates that, although raw material was used quite intensively, the archaeologically defined types were desired forms in their own righ…
Current Research and Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Northern Africa, III
This article reports on developments in archaeological research in North Africa during the last four years, as these are reflected in the 350, or thereabouts, radiocarbon (and thermoluminescence) dates that have appeared since the last review. The number of new dates, and new data, becoming available indicate that North African archaeology is flourishing, although, in contrast to the earlier decades of this century, the focus seems now to be movi…
Recent work on the Middle Palaeolithic of the Eastern Sahara
Distance and decay: An Uneasy Relationship
The application of the distance-decay model to lithic material from southwestern Egypt explores the relationship between size and portability
Recent Backed Microlith Production in Central South Africa
Several rock shelter excavations in the Seacow River Valley of the upper Karoo region of central South Africa confirm that backed microlith production persisted there until at least AD 1800. It is widely assumed that they were used as arrow tip inserts by the prehistoric ancestors of Bushman hunter-gatherers. Microlith reduction strategies are reconstructed from excavated samples covering the last two millennia. Backed bladelets and point product…
Understanding the Late Palaeolithic tools with lustrous edges from the Lower Nile Valley
A new examination of the polish on Late Palaeolithic tools from the Nile identifies some kind of siliceous sheen, but shows no 'sickle gloss'. This is consistent with the demonstration that cereals were not in precociously early cultivation in Egypt
Living on the edge: Neolithic herders in the eastern Sahara
The Eastern Sahara - an arid waste since Neolithic times - is one of the very few regions where one can find, by simple surface survey, little clusters of stone artefacts lying just where they fell 5000 and more years ago. They offer rather direct and specific information about how stone was moved, used and left behind by mobile pastoralists in a marginal environment
New radiocarbon dates and Late Palaeolithic diet at Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt
Vegetable remains are a rarity in Palueolithic contexts. These new determinations on material from southern Egypt establish securely the date of an intensive grass-tuber and fish economy in the Nile Valley towards 20,000 years ago
Inherited Social Difference at the Edges of Flakes
It is now generally accepted that there are no human societies which are truly egalitarian; this also true of bonobos and chimpanzees, among whom rank is inherited. If it were true of the common ancestor of Homo and Pan, there would have been (inherited) social inequality throughout our hominin ancestry. The problem is how to find it. It is also accepted that artefacts play an active and important role in our social lives; thus, socially defined …
Identifying Style in Stone Artefacts: A Case Study from the Nile Valley
This paper examines current theories of, and approaches to, style in flaked stone artefacts. In light of the simplicity of flaked stone artefacts and the more or less mixed nature of Stone Age assemblages of any size, it is concluded that, in this context, the most appropriate type of style is the subconscious variety that arises out of choices between functionally equivalent options, and that we should try to eliminate from consideration traits …
Tanged Arrowheads from Later Stone Age Sites in the Seacow River Valley
Backed Microlith Clusters in Late Holocene Rock Shelters of the Upper Karoo
The identification of style in lithic artefacts
This paper is concerned with the identification of assemblages made by the same, or socially related, groups. It is believed that variability which can be shown, rather than assumed, to have been determined principally by stylistic factors provides the most reliable means of identifying social groups. A number of attributes of backed bladelets are selected, and various hypotheses proposed which might explain their variability. Tests are then perf…
Testing hypotheses of independence on symmetrical artifacts
Current research and recent radiocarbon dates from Northern Africa
The effect of recent radiocarbon dates from North Africa has largely been to extend the principal phases of prehistory back in time. The Middle Palaeolithic now seems to be essentially beyond the range of the radiocarbon technique, at least in the Eastern part of North Africa, although it may persist later in the West, and, throughout North Africa (with the sole exception of Cyrenaican Libya), there remains a disturbing hiatus between the Middle …
Current Research and Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Northern Africa, II
This article outlines recent developments in the archaeology of North Africa, and how our views have evolved in the four years since the previous survey. The principal changes, as such, are that in eastern North Africa, for the first time, sties have been found which fall between the Middle and Late Palaeolithic, thus beginning to close a disconcerting gap in the archaeological record; further evidence is available from the eastern and central Sa…
Recent work on the Middle Palaeolithic of the Eastern Sahara
A Survey of the Egyptian Radar Channels: An Example of Applied Archaeology
The shuttle imaging radar experiment (SIR-A) in 1981 revealed a complex of previously unknown, channel-like features beneath the sandsheets of the Eastern Sahara. Since the age(s) and significance of these features could not be otherwise determined, a survey was undertaken of the archaeology of the region to provide at least a minimal age for them and to evaluate their potential as reservoirs of Pleistocene and Holocene rainfall. The results of t…
Current Research and Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Northern Africa, III
This article reports on developments in archaeological research in North Africa during the last four years, as these are reflected in the 350, or thereabouts, radiocarbon (and thermoluminescence) dates that have appeared since the last review. The number of new dates, and new data, becoming available indicate that North African archaeology is flourishing, although, in contrast to the earlier decades of this century, the focus seems now to be movi…
New radiocarbon dates and Late Palaeolithic diet at Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt
Vegetable remains are a rarity in Palueolithic contexts. These new determinations on material from southern Egypt establish securely the date of an intensive grass-tuber and fish economy in the Nile Valley towards 20,000 years ago
A Last Interglacial Fauna from the Eastern Sahara
Recent work on the middle Paleolithic at Bir Tarfawi, in the hyperarid Eastern Sahara (
Identifying Style in Stone Artefacts: A Case Study from the Nile Valley
This paper examines current theories of, and approaches to, style in flaked stone artefacts. In light of the simplicity of flaked stone artefacts and the more or less mixed nature of Stone Age assemblages of any size, it is concluded that, in this context, the most appropriate type of style is the subconscious variety that arises out of choices between functionally equivalent options, and that we should try to eliminate from consideration traits …
Living on the edge: Neolithic herders in the eastern Sahara
The Eastern Sahara - an arid waste since Neolithic times - is one of the very few regions where one can find, by simple surface survey, little clusters of stone artefacts lying just where they fell 5000 and more years ago. They offer rather direct and specific information about how stone was moved, used and left behind by mobile pastoralists in a marginal environment
News and Short Contributions
Reply to Dibble
On the Validity of Middle Paleolithic Tool Types: A Test Case from the Eastern
Using data from a Middle Paleolithic site at Bir Taifawi in the Eastern Sahara, this study tests recent hypotheses that much of the typological variation apparent in the Middle Paleolithic can be traced to intensity of raw material use, and consequent reuse and reshaping of retouched tools. The Saharan material indicates that, although raw material was used quite intensively, the archaeologically defined types were desired forms in their own righ…
Understanding the Late Palaeolithic tools with lustrous edges from the Lower Nile Valley
A new examination of the polish on Late Palaeolithic tools from the Nile identifies some kind of siliceous sheen, but shows no 'sickle gloss'. This is consistent with the demonstration that cereals were not in precociously early cultivation in Egypt
Egypt, History of
In part because it was one of the greatest political and military powers in antiquity, Egypt had significant contact with the various states and peoples of the Levant. See egyptian relations with canaan. Consequently, much of biblical history is tied in with that of Egypt. This entry, which consists
Egypt During the Last Interglacial
E-88-1: The Archaeology of the Sandsheet
Plus Ça Change
Carry That Weight: The Use and Transportation of Stone Tools
Backed Microlith Clusters in Late Holocene Rock Shelters of the Upper Karoo
Recent Backed Microlith Production in Central South Africa
Several rock shelter excavations in the Seacow River Valley of the upper Karoo region of central South Africa confirm that backed microlith production persisted there until at least AD 1800. It is widely assumed that they were used as arrow tip inserts by the prehistoric ancestors of Bushman hunter-gatherers. Microlith reduction strategies are reconstructed from excavated samples covering the last two millennia. Backed bladelets and point product…
Tanged Arrowheads from Later Stone Age Sites in the Seacow River Valley
Distance and decay: An Uneasy Relationship
The application of the distance-decay model to lithic material from southwestern Egypt explores the relationship between size and portability
Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
Geography (28 works) · Archaeology (27 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · History (13 works) · Geology (12 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Geology (9 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (8 works)