A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area : The Tree Shelter.

Intro -- A HOLOCENE PREHISTORIC SEQUENCE IN THE EGYPTIAN RED SEA AREA: THE TREE SHELTER -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Remarks in relation to the storage of the archaeological material -- 1 - Field Work -- 1.1 - Research history -- 1.2 - Physical environmental context -- 1.3 - Stratigraphy -- 1.3.1 - The Upper deposits (U) -- 1.3.2 - The A-deposits -- 1.3.3 - The B-deposits -- 1.4 - Raw Material -- 1.5 - Archaeological stratigraphy -- 1.5.1 - Archaeological horizon 1 -- 1.5.2 - Archaeological horizon 2 -- 1.5.3 - Archaeological horizon 3 -- 1.5.4 - Archaeological horizon 4 -- 1.5.5 - Archaeological horizon 5 -- 1.6 - Charcoal and 14C dating -- 2 - Microwear Analysis of some Arte facts from Archaeological Horizon 5 -- 2.1 - Microwear Experimentation and Observation -- 2.2 - Observation results -- 2.2.1 - The manufacture of hide products -- 2.2.2 - Use of denticulated blades -- 2.2.3 - Hunting activities -- 2.2.4 - Other activities -- 2.3 - Comparison with contemporaneous Elkabian tools -- 2.4 - Conclusion -- 3 - Woody vegetation and its use during the Neolithic atThe three shelter -- 3.1 - Methods and materials -- 3.2 - Results -- 3.3 - Reconstruction of the vegetation around the site based on the wood charcoal assemblages -- 3.4 - What can the wood charcoal assemblages say about the palaeoenvironmental conditions? -- 3.5 - Palaeoeconomic implications of the botanical materials studied from the site -- 3.6 - Conclusion -- 4 - Faunal remains from the Tre Shelter site1 -- 4.1 - The Elkabian (AH5) - hunting and gathering -- 4.2 - The Neolithic (AH2 and AH3) and the younger period (AH1) - early African small liv estock -- 5 - Discusion and conclusion -- 5.1 - The timing of depositional and erosional events -- 5.2 - The palaeoenvironmental context of Tree Shelter -- 5.3 - Local and regional comparison.

5.3.1 - The archaeological horizon 5 as semblagein a larger context -- 5.3.2 - The archaeological horizon 4 assemblage in a larger context -- 5.3.3 - The archaeological horizon 3 as semblagein a larger context -- 5.3.4 - The archaeological horizon 2 as semblagein a larger context -- 5.3.5 - The archaeological horizon 1 as semblagein a larger context -- 5.4 - General conclusion -- 6 - References.

The prehistory of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is not well understood. A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Epi-Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Predynastic occupation of the area. It presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 bp and continues until about 5000 bp. The archaeological material attests clear connections with the Nile Valley and the Western Desert during the wet Holocene period. Topics covered in the book include the site’s lithics and ceramics, microwear analysis of the lithic artefacts, and the woody vegetation of the Neolithic period.

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