The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated - The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt (Hardcover)

The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighboring locations. The authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They provide the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape interpretable at different temporal and spatial scales, using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.

General

Imprint:	Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2017
Editors:	Simon J Holdaway • Willeke Wendrich
Dimensions:	279 x 215mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-938770-09-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > Egyptian archaeology
LSN:	1-938770-09-9
Barcode:	9781938770098

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