Man-Made Landforms in the Nile Delta

ADIOCARBON datings indicate that the first agricultural settlements in the Nile Delta began about 5000 B.C.,' but there is no doubt that man was living in the area before then. In the seven millennia that have elapsed since these farming communities were established, man has modified the delta landscape considerably. Some of the most conspicuous results of his activities are the koms (tells) or low mounds scattered across the countryside, which are the accumulated debris of thousands of years of human occupation. The present paper contrasts a pair of these man-made landforms with the surrounding agricultural landscape, documents differences between the koms and the surrounding cultivation, and relates these sites to climate and history

Ancient history · Archaeology · Delta · Geography · Landform · Nile delta · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Engineering · Geology · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Paleontology

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