Desert environment and origins of agriculture in Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6094729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fekri A Hassan (0000-0002-1687-0049, Washington State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 63-76 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293652.1986.9965432 |
| OpenAlex | W2017631551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 29 |
Examination of paleoclimatological and archaeological data from the Egyptian Sahara and the Nile Valley strongly suggests that management of animals and supplementary fanning appeared in the southern part of the Western Desert during the early Holocene under subarid conditions. Excessive annual and short‐term variability in rainfall, associated with pronounced temporal and spatial unpredictability of water and food resources, is considered one of the key factors stimulating the initiation of domestication. The onset of marked desertification during the 7th millennium bp motivated an eastward movement into the Nile Valley attested to by an almost simultaneous appearance of ‘Neolithic’ sites from the Delta to the central Sudan
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Arid · Biology · Desert (philosophy) · Desertification · Domestication · Geography · Holocene · Nile delta · Period (music) · Physical geography · Animal Diversity and Health Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
African Archaeology
Holocene playa deposits of Farafra Oasis, Egypt, and their palaeoclimatic and geoarchaeological significance
Radiocarbon chronologies for prehistoric human occupation and hydroclimatic change in Egypt and Northern Sudan
Relationships of the Nubian A-Group
Climatic changes and cultural transformations in Farafra oasis, Egypt
Periodontal disease and ‘oral health’ in the past
Porridge and Pot, Bread and Oven
Incremental Growth Structures in Nile Fish and Molluscs from Archaeological Sites as Indicators of Holocene Environmental Change in Egypt
An Alternative Way Towards Food Production
The evolution of early Egyptian civilization
The Predynastic of Egypt
Wadi Bakht revisited
Rise and Fall of an Egyptian Oasis
Fish, pots and grain
The Wavy Line and the Dotted Wavy Line Pottery in the Prehistory of the Central Nile and the Sahara-Sahel Belt
The Pastoral Neolithic of East Africa
Early Pastoralists in East Africa
Egypt
Mid-to Late Holocene paleoclimatic changes and paleoenvironmental shifts inferred from pollen and diatom assemblages at Lake Hamra, Wadi El Natrun (Western Nile Delta, North Western Desert, Egypt)
Cultural Origins of the Egyptian Neolithic and Predynastic
Animal Disease Challenges to the Emergence of Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Technological organization and sedentism in the Epipalaeolithic of Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
Holocene Palaeoclimates of Africa
Increased Sedentism in the Central Oases of the Egyptian Western Desert in the Early to Mid-Holocene
Epipaleolithic and Neolithic Subsistence and Settlement in the Fayyum Oasis of Egypt
Sedentism, Cultivation, and Plant Domestication in the Holocene Middle Nile Region
A Reassessment of the Origins of the Predynastic in Upper Egypt
Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples
Mudbrick as a bearer of agricultural information
The dynamics of a riverine civilization
Temperatures in Predynastic Egypt inferred from the remains of the Nile perch
The Ecology of Seasonal Stress and the Origins of Agriculture in the Near East
Early African Pastoralism
Prehistory of the Nile Valley
Demographic Archaeology
Prehistoric Cultural Continuity and Economic Change in the Central Sudan in the Early Holocene
Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments in the Sahara
Interaction inferences in archaeology and learning frameworks of the maya
Holocene lakes and prehistoric settlements of the Western Faiyum, Egypt
Chronology of the Khartoum ?Mesolithic? and ?Neolithic? and related sites in the Sudan
Radiocarbon chronology of Neolithic and Predynastic sites in Upper Egypt and the Delta
A Re-Examination of the Evidence for Agricultural Origins in the Nile Valley
New Light on the Most Ancient East
Uppsala Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XI
Uppsala Natural Radiocarbon Measurements I
Radiocarbon Dating in the Southern Levant
Current Research and Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Northern Africa, II
Continuity and discontinuity. How to account for a two thousand years gap in the cultural history of the Khartoum nile environment
Archaeological classification and ethnic groups
Continuity and Discontinuity
Egyptian and Near Eastern chronology
Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation
Demography and Archaeology
Late Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara
Fieldwork in the Tadrart Acacus and the 'Neolithic' of the Sahara
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2020 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |