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Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Paperback)
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Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Paperback)
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs, 18
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As one of the few surviving artefacts from the late prehistory of
north-east Africa, pottery serves as an essential material category
by which to explore long-term human development. This book presents
a major study on the ceramics recovered from early and mid-Holocene
sites in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis, which come from 96 registered sites
and five other findspots and comprise more than 10,000 sherds. In
addition, there is little proxy evidence to support the manufacture
of pottery in the form of kilns, clay firedogs, and other firing
equipment. None of the ceramic objects come from burials. They
derive instead from settlement sites that display evidence of
living activities (hut circles, hearths, chipped stone scatters,
etc.), or sites for which there is no other evidence of human
activity. Through detailed description, classification and
quantification, a detailed cultural sequence has been determined,
demonstrating descrete stylistic variations between sites and over
time, and highlighting growing diversity and innovation in local
pottery-making from the late seventh to mid-third millennia cal.
BC. These shifts help to refine the characterisation of local
cultural units within the Holocene sequence for Dakhleh Oasis, and
to compare against parallel pottery traditions elsewhere in the
desert. A firmer grounding in the oasis ceramics, as detailed here,
offers inroads to examine social practices and the
interconnectedness of desert groups of the ancient Eastern Sahara.
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