From Hunters to Herders
The Libyan Desert in Prehistoric Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23580166 |
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| Authors | Friederike Jesse (0000-0002-9653-5530, Archaeology, University of Cologne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 250-269 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190496272.013.14 |
| OpenAlex | W3161243746 |
| ISBN | 9780190496272 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The Nubian past cannot be fully understood without knowledge of occupation in the Libyan Desert west of the Nile. Hunter-gatherers occupied Nubia’s western hinterland during the Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Pottery and different pastoral adaptations featuring cattle, sheep, and goats appeared during the Middle Holocene. Cattle-centered behavior is evident: cattle largely dominates the economic and social life. Changing networks of contact and interaction are apparent over time. Depopulation of the region due to increasing aridity started earlier in the north, the southern Western Desert of Egypt, than in the south Libyan Desert of today’s Sudan where conditions for human settlement remained favorable in some areas up to the 1st millennium bce.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Arid · Biology · Desert (philosophy) · Geography · Holocene · Livestock · Pastoralism · Pleistocene · Pottery · Settlement (finance) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Ecology · Forestry · History
The Pottery of Nabta Playa
Cattle Before Crops
Herders before Pastoralism
‘I Hope Your Cattle Are Well’
Early Pottery in Northern Africa - An Overview
On the Periphery of Kerma - The Handessi Horizon in Wadi Hariq, Northwestern Sudan
The Aterian and its place in the North African Middle Stone Age
South-eastern Mediterranean peoples between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago
Climate, styles and archaeology
On the Nile Corridor and the Out-of-Africa Model
| Highly cited | No |
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