Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7429005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Wendorf (Southern Methodist University, corresponding author), R Schild (0000-0003-2701-0623, Polish Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97-123 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0278-4165 • E-ISSN: 1090-2686 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1006/jaar.1998.0319 |
| OpenAlex | W2009139881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
| References cited | 30 |
Archaeological record · Archaeology · Biology · Domestication · Ethnology · Foodways · Geography · Holocene · Megalith · Pleistocene · Prehistory · Sociology · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Ecology
The Archaeology of Sudan and Nubia
Cattle Cultures in Ancient Nubia
Climate Change in Prehistory
Nabta Playa
Nomads and Nomadism in History
Africa in World History before ca. 1440
Recent environmental change and prehistoric human activity in Egypt and Northern Sudan
Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC
The origins of animal domestication and husbandry
Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle
African Pastoralism
Historical Linguistics
Uma Dádiva do Nilo? Mudanças climáticas, as origens da civilização egípcia e suas interações no Nordeste Africano
Fit for the Job
Amm Adam
Cemeteries on a moving frontier
“People Gathered by Sorghum”
The 8200 calBP climate event and the spread of the Neolithic in Eastern Europe
Porridge and Pot, Bread and Oven
Here comes the rain again … The early Holocene El Adam occupation of the Western Desert, Nabta Playa, Egypt
Holocene paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic and geoarchaeological significance of the Sheikh El-Obeiyid area (Farafra Oasis, Egypt)
Palynological evidence of cultural and environmental connections in Sudanese Nubia during the Early and Middle Holocene
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 responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity
Building monuments, creating identity
Des « pierres de pluie » au Néolithique moyen en Haute-Nubie (Soudan) ? Un dépôt funéraire du ve millénaire BCE à la lumière de l’ethnographie
Des « pierres de pluie » venues d’un pays où il ne pleut plus ? Sur les traces d’un objet majeur de l’anthropologie africaine
Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River basin, Kenyan coastal lowlands
Monumental funerary landscapes of Dhar Tagant (south‐eastern Mauritania)
What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa
Holocene settlement shifts and palaeoenvironments on the Central Iranian Plateau
Genetic characterization of an archaeological sheep assemblage from South Africa’s Western Cape
The Emirate of Córdoba (756–929 AD) and the introduction of the Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) in Iberia
Identification of pastoral sites using stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes from bulk sediment samples
Pour une histoire des peuplements pré- et protohistoriques du Sahel
Sociétés et rites funéraires
Right to the city and human mobility transition
Hunter–Gatherer Cattle-Keepers of Early Neolithic El Adam Type from Nabta Playa
Cultural Origins of the Egyptian Neolithic and Predynastic
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Animal Disease Challenges to the Emergence of Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Early Holocene El-Ghorab Hunter-Gatherers of the Gebel Ramlah Playa, Egyptian South-Western Desert
The Neolithic Refitting from Gebel Ramlah, the Western Desert of Egypt
Four middle Holocene pillar sites in West Turkana, Kenya
Beyond collapse
Storage amidst early agriculture along the Nile
The Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry (GsJj50)
The Emergence of Mobile Pastoral Elites during the Middle to Late Holocene in the Sahara
The climate-environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day
Cattle Before Crops
Domesticating Animals in Africa
Interactions and Pastoralism Along the Southern and Southeastern Frontiers of the Meroitic State, Sudan
One Hundred Years of Archaeology in Niger
Early North African Cattle Domestication and Its Ecological Setting
An Alternative Way Towards Food Production
A Window into the Nubian Diet
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Pastoral Adaptations and Organizational States
Mediterranean and north-African cultural adaptations to mid-Holocene environmental and climatic changes
Rethinking 'Cattle Cults' in Early Egypt
Semi-permanent foragers in semi-arid environments of North Africa
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence
Les processus de néolithisation
Evidence for Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Eastern Sudan
Domestication Processes and Morphological Change
On a Nubian frontier — landscapes of settlement on the Third Cataract of the Nile, Sudan
Early herders and monumental sites in eastern Africa
Early Holocene pottery in the Western Desert of Egypt
Cultural convergence in the Neolithic of the Nile Valley
From holes to huts
Provoking lactation by the insufflation technique as documented by the rock images of the Sahara
General/Specific, Local/Global
Kharga Oasis in prehistory
Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
The emergence of pottery
Egypt During the Last Interglacial
The Walking larder
Are the early holocene cattle in the eastern sahara domestic or wild
Paleorivers and geoarchaeology in the southern Egyptian Sahara
Radiocarbon chronology of Neolithic and Predynastic sites in Upper Egypt and the Delta
Acheulian Sites along the “Radar Rivers,” Southern Egyptian Sahara
Egypt Before the Pharaohs
C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerma Remains at Adindan Cemeteries T, K, U and J
Caravan
A Survey of the Egyptian Radar Channels
Vestiges protohistoriques et occupation humaine au Sénégal
The Predynastic of Egypt
Fixed Shrines and Spiritual Centres in the Upper Nile
The Kababish Arabs
Egypt before the Pharaohs
Neolithic adaptation and the Holocene functioning of Tertiary palaeodrainages in southern Egypt and northern Sudan
The Prehistory of Nubia
Baggara Arabs
The Kababish Arabs
Pyramids' in the Upper Nile Region
The Cattle Complex in East Africa
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