The Oasis Papers: Proceedings from the First International Symposium of the Dakhleh Oasis Project

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The first Dakhleh Oasis Project seminar held at Durham University in 1994 was the occasion for discussion of topics ranging from the Pleistocene to petroglyphs and papyri. Contents include: What is the Aterian? (M Kleindienst); Prehistory of the late upper Pleistocene (M F Wiseman); Late prehistoric radiocarbon chronology (Mary M A McDonald); Dating of the occupations at Ismant (C A Hope); Greek documentary papyri from Kellis (K A Worp); Perceptions of fertility in the Roman period (O E Kaper); Comparative ...
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The first Dakhleh Oasis Project seminar held at Durham University in 1994 was the occasion for discussion of topics ranging from the Pleistocene to petroglyphs and papyri. Contents include: What is the Aterian? (M Kleindienst); Prehistory of the late upper Pleistocene (M F Wiseman); Late prehistoric radiocarbon chronology (Mary M A McDonald); Dating of the occupations at Ismant (C A Hope); Greek documentary papyri from Kellis (K A Worp); Perceptions of fertility in the Roman period (O E Kaper); Comparative skeletal biology and paleoepidemology (J El Molto); Microns, microbes, microscopes and molecules (M Cook & P Sheldrick); Infant burials at Ismant El-Kharab (Mandy Marlow); Petroglyphs (L Kryzyzaniak); Glassware (C Marchini); The Manichaean community (I Gardner). (Oxbow Monograph 97/ Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 6, 1998)
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Introduction
Conference Participants and Monograph Contributors
Conference Schedule
What is the Aterian? The view from Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert, Egypt 1
Problems in the prehistory of the Late Upper Pleistocene of the Dakhleh Oasis 15
The Late Prehistoric radiocarbon chronology for Dakhleh Oasis within the wider environmental and cultural setting of the Egyptian Western Desert 26
Observations on the dating of the occupation at Ismant el-Kharab 43
A suggested interpretation of the coin-finds of Ismant el-Kharab 60
The Greek documentary papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab): an interim report 65
Local perceptions of the fertility of the Dakhleh Oasis in the Roman period 70
The comparative skeletal biology and paleoepidemiology of the people from Ein Tirghi and Kellis, Dakhleh Oasis Egypt 81
Microns, microbes, microscopes and molecules 101
Miscarriages and infant burials in the Dakhleh cemeteries: an archaeological examination of status 105
Abstracts 111
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