The Nile Basin
Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23797704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin A J Williams (0000-0003-3114-9337, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), Martin Williams (0000-0002-4553-1820, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Nile Basin (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316831885 |
| OpenAlex | W2990181979 |
| ISBN | 9781316831885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 688 |
The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years. However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this area are complex and often poorly understood. This comprehensive book explains in clear, non-technical terms how prehistoric environments can be reconstructed, with examples drawn from every part of the Nile Basin. Adopting a source-to-sink approach, the book integrates events in the Nile headwaters with the record from marine sediment cores in the Nile Delta and offshore. It provides a detailed record of past environmental changes throughout the Nile Basin and concludes with a review of the causes and consequences of plant and animal domestication in this region and of the various prehistoric migrations out of Africa into Eurasia and beyond. A comprehensive overview, this book is ideal for researchers in geomorphology, climatology and archaeology.
Geography · Geomorphology · Structural basin · Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Transboundary Water Resource Management
Between the Nile and the Red Sea
When the Land Sings
Fourth and fifth seasons of the Nubian Archaeological and Anthropological Expedition of the Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Sites of Deraheib and Onib (the Republic of Sudan). Part I. Survey
Humans, the Migrants
The Khartoum-Omdurman conurbation
First results of a Middle Stone Age survey in the Kerma region, northern Sudan
Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan
Atbai Enclosure Burials
A High-Resolution 11,400-Yr Diatom Record from Lake Victoria, East Africa
Seasonality change and the third millennium BP rainforest crisis in southern Cameroon (Central Africa)
Paleoclimatic implications of late quaternary lacustrine sediments in Western Nubia, Sudan
Nile floods recorded in deep Mediterranean sediments
Stable isotopes of a subfossil Tamarix tree from the Dead Sea region, Israel, and their implications for the Intermediate Bronze Age environmental crisis
Heavy Minerals and the Evolution of the Modern Nile
Dust, Clouds, Rain Types, and Climatic Variations in Tropical North Africa
Hydrologic and climatic implications of stable isotope and minor element analyses of authigenic calcite silts and gastropod shells from a mid-Pleistocene pluvial lake, Western Desert, Egypt
Sand dunes as a major proximal dust source for late Pleistocene loess in the Negev Desert, Israel
Early pleistocene lake deposits and Lower Paleolithic finds in Nahal (wadi) Zihor, Southern Negev desert, Israel
Paleoclimate reconstruction based on the timing of speleothem growth and oxygen and carbon isotope composition in a cave located in the rain shadow in Israel
Optically stimulated luminescence ages from the Lake Agassiz basin in Manitoba
Abrasion-derived sediments under intensified winds at the latest Pleistocene leading edge of the advancing Sinai–Negev erg
Holocene environment and subsistence patterns near the Tree Shelter, Red Sea Mountains, Egypt
Precipitation Source Inferred from Stable Isotopic Composition of Pleistocene Groundwater and Carbonate Deposits in the Western Desert of Egypt
Radiocarbon Dating and Paleoclimatic Significance of Subfossil Limicolaria in Northwestern Sudan
The role of rare rainstorms in the formation of calcic soil horizons on alluvial surfaces in extreme deserts
Timing and intensity of groundwater movement during Egyptian Sahara pluvial periods by U-series analysis of secondary U in ores and carbonates
A 10,000-year high-resolution diatom record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa
Changing moisture sources over the last 330,000 years in Northern Oman from fluid-inclusion evidence in speleothems
A soil Chronosequence on Lake Mega-Frome Beach Ridges and its Implications for Late Quaternary Pedogenesis and Paleoenvironmental Conditions in the Drylands of Southern Australia
The Nile, Biology of an Ancient River
Egypt During the Last Interglacial
Understanding Ethiopia
An Introduction to the Physiography of the Nile Valley
Travels to discover the source of the Nile
The Nile in 1904 /
Prehistory of the Nile Valley
The Origins of Food Production in Northeast Africa∗
The Natufian Culture
The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age
The Acheulian of the Levant
The earliest archaeological traces
The Nubian Past
The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms
Mitochondrial genome variation and the origin of modern humans
Phytoliths as paleoenvironmental indicators, West Side Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Holocene Forcing of the Indian Monsoon Recorded in a Stalagmite from Southern Oman
Hominid occupation of the East-Central Highlands of Ethiopia in the Plio–Pleistocene
Holocene ITCZ and Indian monsoon dynamics recorded in stalagmites from Oman and Yemen (Socotra)
Variability of El Niño/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch
Factors of Soil Formation
Subsurface movements of stone artefacts and their implications for the prehistory of Central Africa
Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary
Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period
The Holocene climatic optimum and pollen records of sapropel 1 in the eastern Mediterranean, 9000–6000BP
An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution
The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe
Out of Africa again and again
Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum
A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago
Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years
Optical dating of sediments
Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records
An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia
Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma
Going East
Increase in the Asian Southwest Monsoon During the Past Four Centuries
The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart
High-resolution vegetation and climate change associated with Pliocene Australopithecus afarensis
Holocene climate variability
The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages
Paleoenvironments of the earliest stone toolmakers, Gona, Ethiopia
Environmental processes of the ice age
Coasting out of Africa
Radiocarbon Dating of East African Lake Levels
On the origin of modern humans
Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara
Palaeoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Origin and Consequences of Cyclic Ice Rafting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean During the Past 130,000 Years
Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia
Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch
An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages
Desert speleothems reveal climatic window for African exodus of early modern humans
The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations
The earliest modern humans outside Africa
Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records
World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans
Mediterranean Moisture Source for an Early-Holocene Humid Period in the Northern Red Sea
ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Es Skhul in Israel
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Believing and seeing
The Mediterranean valleys
IV. An account of the Harmattan, a singular African wind
Historical Changes in the Flood Hazard at Khartoum, Sudan
Prehistoric Cultural Continuity and Economic Change in the Central Sudan in the Early Holocene
Early Evidence for Animal Domestication in Eastern Africa
The Middle Paleolithic Archaeofaunas from Bir Tarfawi (Western Desert, Egypt)
The Emergence of Food Production in the Egyptian Sahara
Les images rupestres du Jebel el-’Uweynāt
Recent Archaeological Research in Southeastern Ethiopia. 1974 - 1975
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa
Out of Africa
A Pleistocene diatomite from the western piedmont of Jebel Marra volcano, Darfur, western Sudan, and its hydrological and climatic significance
Dust and loessic alluvial deposits in Northwestern Namibia (Damaraland, Kaokoveld)
Mid-Holocene occupation of Egypt and global climatic change
Dynamic denudation evolution of tropical, subtropical and temperate landscapes with three tiered soils
The oxygen and carbon isotopic records in Holocene freshwater mollusc shells from the faiyum paleolakes, egypt
Impact of extreme rainfall in the central Sudan during 1999 as a partial analogue for reconstructing early Holocene prehistoric environments
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |