Holocene palaeoecology of the eastern Sahara; Selima Oasis

Haynes, C. Vance; Eyles, Carolyn H.; Pavlish, L. A.; Ritchie, J. C.; Rybak, Mariusz

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“…Late Pleistocene lake deposits with associated Early and Middle Paleolithic archaeological sites are best known from work in the Bir Tarfawi area of southwestern Egypt (Wendorf et al, 1987). Similar associations occur in northwestern Sudan but have not yet been studied in detail (Haynes, 1985;Haynes et al, 1989).…”

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“…An early Holocene pluvial cycle is well documented by geoarchaeological investigations at Neolithic playa sites in Egypt (Wendorf and Schild, 1980;Pachur and Braun, 1980;Kropelin, 1987) and at sites of ancient lake beds in northern Sudan (Ritchie et al, 1985;Pachur and Roper, 1984;Gabriel and Kropelin, 1989;Haynes et al, 1989;Pachur et al, 1990;Kropelin, 1990). Late Pleistocene lake deposits with associated Early and Middle Paleolithic archaeological sites are best known from work in the Bir Tarfawi area of southwestern Egypt (Wendorf et al, 1987).…”

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Ages of Quaternary pluvial episodes determined by uranium-series and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine deposits of Eastern Sahara

Szabo

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Maxwell

1995

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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confidence: 85%

Ages of Quaternary pluvial episodes determined by uranium-series and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine deposits of Eastern Sahara

Szabo

Haynes

Maxwell

1995

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…The shallow depression surrounding Bir Tarfawi is the location of several inset lacustrine deposits that range in age from > 500 kyr to 4000 bp (Wendorf et al, 1993;Szabo et al, 1995). Pollen records at Selima Oasis indicate a fluctuating water table, with the latest high stand at 8.7 to < 6 kyr (Ritchie et al, 1985;Haynes et al, 1989). Thus, long-term climatic changes are viewed to be responsible for cycles of deflation, lacustrine deposition, and re-excavation of the scattered oases.…”

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Sand sheet dynamics and Quaternary landscape evolution of the Selima Sand Sheet, southern Egypt

Maxwell

Haynes

2001

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…Haynes 1987;Haynes et al 1989;Wendorf 2001, Kuper andKröpelin 2006;Schild 2006, Pöllath andPe ters 2007). But un for tu nately, it is not the case when the area in ques tion is con cerned, which is and has al ways been strongly in flu enced by the Red Sea.…”

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What Forced the Prehistoric Cattle-Keepers to Emigrate from the Red Sea Mountains?

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Ab stractTo day's desert area of Red Sea Hills is now in hab ited by a Beja-Bisharin tribe, the camel breed ers. In pre his toric times, this area was in hab ited or pen e trated by pas to ral com mu ni ties en gaged in cat tle breed ing. Their oc cu pa tion is pri mar ily marked by thou sands of en grav ings with rep re sen ta tions of long-horned cat tle, which were dis cov ered in a rock art gal lery in Bir Nurayet, one of the larg est rock art gal ler ies in Af rica and the whole world. We still do not know when the shep herds and their herds aban doned the area. This is sue can be ad dressed by geoarchaeology and in ves ti gation of sed i ments dis cov ered in Wadi Diib, i.e. silts. As we be lieve, they re cord cli mate and en vi ron men tal changes tak ing place in re cent mil len nia, which prob a bly to a large ex tent de ter mined the socio-cul tural pro cesses in the area.Key words: cat tle-keep ers, Red Sea Hills, Su dan, chro nol ogy of rock art IN TRO DUC TIONThe aim of this pa per is to pres ent some is sues re gard ing the chro nol ogy of the ar chae o log i cal site Bir Nurayet, discov ered lately in Su dan which, as we be lieve, can be addressed with the help of geoarchaeology.Bir Nurayet is a name of a place lo cated in the Red Sea Hills at the foot of a lonely moun tain Jebel Magardi. This beau ti ful moun tain with a char ac ter is tic phal lic shape dom inates in the land scape of Wadi Diib. In the vi cin ity of the Magardi there is one of the larg est rock art gal ler ies on the Af ri can con ti nent, ac com pa nied by rel ics of camps, set tlement sites and cem e ter ies of com mu ni ties liv ing in the area from the early pre his tory un til mod ern times.The con cen tra tion of rock art was dis cov ered at the turn of 1998/1999 by the Pol ish ar chae ol o gist Krzysztof Pluskota and the Dutch writer and pho tog ra pher Arita Baaijens, who pen e trated the area while trav el ling with a camel car a van along the route of an cient gold mines (Pluskota, 2003(Pluskota, , 2006. RE GIONAL SET TINGBir Nurayet is lo cated in the Red Sea Hills (north-east ern Su dan), in the cen tral part of Wadi Diib (Val ley of Wolves), which con sti tutes an axis of an im mense drain age sys tem of this part of the moun tains that drains sea son ally its wa ters into the Red Sea near Marsa Abu El Qasim (Egypt), ap prox imately 130 km north of Nurayet. It is the heart of the Beja Bisharin tribe's ter ri tory, circa 60 ki lo me ters south of the Egyp tian-Su da nese bor der, 100 ki lo me ters west of the Red Sea Shore and 500 ki lo me ters east from Nile Val ley (Fig. 1). MA TE RIAL AND METH ODSIn the vi cin ity of Bir Nurayet the east ern edge of Wadi Diib is made of ex ten sively par ti tioned and eroded hills built of sand stone (un pub lished petrographic anal y ses by M. Mrozek-Wysocka, In sti tute of Ge ol ogy, Adam Mickiewicz Uni ver sity, Poznañ, 2012). The west ern edge, on the other Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/13/18 5:14 AM

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Holocene palaeoecology of the eastern Sahara; Selima Oasis

Cited by 136 publications

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Ages of Quaternary pluvial episodes determined by uranium-series and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine deposits of Eastern Sahara

Ages of Quaternary pluvial episodes determined by uranium-series and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine deposits of Eastern Sahara

Sand sheet dynamics and Quaternary landscape evolution of the Selima Sand Sheet, southern Egypt

What Forced the Prehistoric Cattle-Keepers to Emigrate from the Red Sea Mountains?

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