The Oasis Papers 2 : Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project.

Intro -- Dedication -- Editor's Preface -- Conference Program -- Palaeoenvironment -- The Quaternary Faunas of Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt -- Water in the Desert: First Report on Uranium-Series Dating of Caton-Thompson's and Gardner's 'Classic' Pleistocene Sequence at Refuf Pass, Kharga Oasis -- Fire in the Desert: The Occurrence of a High-Ca Silicate Glass near the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt -- Prehistory -- Preliminary Report on the Aterian at Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt -- Emerging Social Complexity in the Mid-Holocene Egyptian Western Desert: Site 270 and its Neighbours in South-Eastern Dakhleh Oasis -- Neolithic Dental Remains from Sheikh Muftah, Dakhleh Oasis: A Preliminary Report -- Historical Archaeology -- Economy and Ecology in the Kellis Agricultural Account Book -- Dining in the Dakhleh Oasis: Determining Diet from Stable Isotopes -- Some Comments on Kinship Terms in the Coptic Documentary Papyri from Ismant el-Kharab -- The Archaeology of the Kellis 2 Cemetery -- Plant Remains from Habitation Areas at Kellis: Some Considerations concerning their Accumulation -- Conservation -- Conservation at Ismant el-Kharab: Examples of Wall Painting in Shrine I -- Aspects of Conservation in the Dakhleh Oasis -- Museology in the Oasis -- Abstracts.

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