An edition of The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert
(2012)
The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert
by H. Barnard and Kim Duistermaat
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Congresses, Desert people, Excavations (Archaeology), Roman Antiquities, Antiquities, HistoryPlaces
Egypt, Eastern Desert (Egypt), Eastern DesertShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Table of Contents
Part I. 1. Introduction to Part 1: From Adam to Alexander (500,000-2500 years ago) / H. Barnard
2. Contributions to the prehistory of the Eastern Desert, Egypt / P.M. Vermeersch
3. The holocene prehistory of the Nubian Eastern Desert / M.C. Gatto
4. The journey to the rock art gallery of Bir Nurayet (Sudan) / K. Pluskota
5. Boat petroglyphs in Egypt's Central Eastern Desert / F. Lankester
6. Nomads at the Nile: towards an archaeology of interaction / C. Nøser
7. Gods in the Red Land: development of cults and religious activities in the Eastern Desert / A.D. Espinel
8. Sinai in Egyptian, Levantine and Hebrew (Biblical) perspectives / J.K. Hoffmeier
9. Vegetation and management regime continuity in the cultural landscape of the Eastern Desert / G.L. Andersen
10. The Eastern Desert tombs and cultural continuity / K. Krzywinski
11. The desert dwellers of Marmarica, Western Desert: second millennium BCE to first millennium CE / A.-K. Rieger, T. Vetter and H. Møller
Part II. 12. Introduction to Part 2: the last 2500 years / H. Barnard
13. The Eastern Desert during the Ptolemaic period: an emerging picture / J. Gates-Foster
14. Nabataeans in the Eastern Desert during the Roman period / R.Z. Mohamed
15. Roman gold mining in the Eastern desert: the mining settlement in Wadi Bakariya / B.J.M. Tratsaert
16. A Blemmy by any other name...: a study in Greek ethnography / R.H. Pierce
17. Blemmyes, Noubades and the Eastern Desert in late antiquity: reassessing the written sources / J.H.F. Dijkstra
18. On the archaeology of the native population of the Eastern Desert in the first-seventh centuries CE / G. Lassønyi
19. Results of recent mass spectrometric research of Eastern Desert ware (4th-6th centuries CE) / H. Barnard
20. "You shall not see the tribes of the Blemmyes or of the Saracens": on the other 'barbarians' of the late Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt / T. Power
21. Invisible monks, human eyes and the Egyptian desert in late antique hagiography / K.M. Klein
22. Desert imagery: Bedouin, monks, demons and hermits around Saint Anthony's monastery / J.C.M. Starkey
23. Nomadism and the monastic life in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / M. Jones
24. Towards variability: cultural diversity in economic strategies of Beja peoples / P. Weschenfelder
25. The documentation of the cultural heritage of the Bedouin of South Sinai: a pilot study in Serabit al-Khadim / M. Hanna, F. Keshk and S. Aboubakr
26. Nominating Suakin a World Heritage Site / M.D.S. Mallinson
27. The establishment of a transboundary biosphere reserve in Wadi Allaqi, Egypt / M. al-Aawah and C. De Simone
28. Beja innovation and responses to environmental change in the southeastern desert of Egypt / A. Roe
29. Giving a voice to the Ababda / M. Abdel-Qadr, W.Z. Wendrich, Z. Kosc and H. Barnard
30. Sustainable desert tourism: a tool for competition / S.B. Hassan
31. Concluding remarks / J.L. Bintliff and H. Barnard.
Edition Notes
Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 25-27, 2008 at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.
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