Géoarchéologie d’un port fluvial antique : Avaris, sur la branche pélusiaque (Nil, Égypte)

Tronchère, Hervé; Goiran, Jean‐Philippe; Schmitt, Laurent; Preusser, Frank; Bietak, Manfred; Forstner-Müller, Irene; Callot, Yann

doi:10.4000/geomorphologie.9701

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“…The northern site is much larger than previously thought, making both areas (settlement and funerary) roughly the same size. It has been observed for gezira sites that cemetery areas are located on the higher parts of geziras, while settlements are placed on lower sections (van den Brink, 1986). Possibly this is the case here, with large parts of the gezira sloping down towards the north.…”

Section: Anomalies Of Tells and Gezirasmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…Similar linear, stretched NDWI anomalies were found in the eastern Nile Delta in the direct vicinity of the ancient site of Bubastis and also north of Zagazig. These were interpreted as former branches of the Nile for this region, potentially of the Pelusiac or Tanitic Nile (Bietak, 1975;Tronchère et al, 2012). Compared to the anomalies found over the geziras, these were, however, less distinct (i.e., NDWI anomalies were of lower magnitude), and no indication of former levees was found in the TanDEM-X DEM.…”

Section: Anomalies Of Potential Former River Coursesmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Mapping buried paleogeographical features of the Nile Delta (Egypt) using the Landsat archive

Ullmann¹,

Nill

Schiestl³

et al. 2020

E&G Quaternary Sci. J.

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Abstract. The contribution highlights the use of Landsat spectral-temporal metrics (STMs) for the detection of surface anomalies that are potentially related to buried near-surface paleogeomorphological deposits in the Nile Delta (Egypt), in particular for a buried river branch close to Buto. The processing was completed in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) for the entire Nile Delta and for selected seasons of the year (summer/winter) using Landsat data from 1985 to 2019. We derived the STMs of the tasseled cap transformation (TC), the Normalized Difference Wetness Index (NDWI), and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). These features were compared to historical topographic maps of the Survey of Egypt, CORONA imagery, the digital elevation model of the TanDEM-X mission, and modern high-resolution satellite imagery. The results suggest that the extent of channels is best revealed when differencing the median NDWI between summer (July/August) and winter (January/February) seasons (ΔNDWI). The observed difference is likely due to lower soil/plant moisture during summer, which is potentially caused by coarser-grained deposits and the morphology of the former levee. Similar anomalies were found in the immediate surroundings of several Pleistocene sand hills (“geziras”) and settlement mounds (“tells”) of the eastern delta, which allowed some mapping of the potential near-surface continuation. Such anomalies were not observed for the surroundings of tells of the western Nile Delta. Additional linear and meandering ΔNDWI anomalies were found in the eastern Nile Delta in the immediate surroundings of the ancient site of Bubastis (Tell Basta), as well as several kilometers north of Zagazig. These anomalies might indicate former courses of Nile river branches. However, the ΔNDWI does not provide an unambiguous delineation.

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Section: Anomalies Of Tells and Gezirasmentioning

confidence: 72%

Section: Anomalies Of Potential Former River Coursesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Mapping buried paleogeographical features of the Nile Delta (Egypt) using the Landsat archive

Ullmann¹,

Nill

Schiestl³

et al. 2020

E&G Quaternary Sci. J.

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“…By 3500 years BP the delta plain of the Pelusiac branch was beginning to build out beyond the Pelusium Line. Extensive harbors were maintained during the Second Intermediate Period to early New Kingdom in the Pelusiac channel at Tell Dab c a (the Hyksos capital Avaris), as identified and mapped by sediment coring and geomagnetic surveys (Tronchére et al 2011). Some segments of the ancient distributaries were canalized in ancient times and remain part of the modern irrigation system.…”

Section: Results: Depiction Of Ancient Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

Levy¹,

Schneider²,

Propp³

2015

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences is a book series designed to foster research-based conversation with all parts of the university campus from buildings of ivy-covered stone to technologically savvy walls of glass. Scholarship from international researchers and the esteemed editorial board represents the farreaching applications of computational analysis, statistical models, computer-based programs, and other quantitative methods. Methods are integrated in a dialogue that is sensitive to the broader context of humanistic study and social science research. Scholars, including among others historians, archaeologists, classicists and linguists, promote this interdisciplinary approach. These texts teach new methodological approaches for contemporary research. Each volume exposes readers to a particular research method. Researchers and students then benefit from exposure to subtleties of the larger project or corpus of work in which the quantitative methods come to fruition.

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“…This region is characterized by low plains of rich alluvial deposits with SW-NE belts of hills or geziras (Said 2017). During the Second Intermediate Period, several river channels formed a network around a gezira formed by aeolian sands on which sits the site of Tell el-Dab c a (Dorner 1994;Tronchère et al 2012).…”

Section: The Site Of Tell El-dab C Amentioning

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Multi-isotopic study of diet and mobility in the northeastern Nile Delta

Stantis

Kharobi

Maaranen

et al. 2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The origin of the Hyksos dynasty (c. 1638–1530 BCE) is thought to be rooted in the Near East given the architectural features and burial customs present at the site of Tell el-Dabca, identified as the capital of Hyksos rule in the Eastern Delta of Egypt. We expand previous 87Sr/86Sr research on the site’s cemetery assemblage using a multi-isotopic methodology: oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13Ccarb) stable isotopes from the carbonate portion of tooth enamel (n = 75), along with collagen (δ13Ccoll, δ15N) analysis of dentine and bone (n = 31). Pairing δ18O with previous 87Sr/86Sr data identifies 60% of the cohort as non-locals (45/75). Although there were a greater proportion of non-local females (24/30, 80%) compared to males (10/20, 50%), there were no significant differences between the sexes in δ13Ccarb or δ18Ocarb values. There were no spatial patterns regarding the three cemetery sites, nor any observable patterns regarding where non-locals were interred in the largest excavated cemetery, Area A/II. Both first-generation immigrants and individuals from the northeastern Nile Delta were buried following elite Asiatic burial customs, suggesting continuation of foreign burial culture. All collagen showed poor preservation; δ13Ccoll and δ15N analysis were not possible. δ13Ccarb showed no significant difference between locals and non-local diet, although non-locals at Tell el-Dabca did eat a broader variety of foods as a group, suggested by a wider δ13Ccarb range (− 13.5 to − 9.6‰ in non-locals compared to locals’ − 12.1 to − 10.3‰). If there is a difference in food culture between immigrants and native Egyptians, it was not observable using isotopic analyses.

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Géoarchéologie d’un port fluvial antique : Avaris, sur la branche pélusiaque (Nil, Égypte)

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Mapping buried paleogeographical features of the Nile Delta (Egypt) using the Landsat archive

Mapping buried paleogeographical features of the Nile Delta (Egypt) using the Landsat archive

Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

Multi-isotopic study of diet and mobility in the northeastern Nile Delta

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