The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt : New insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.

The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding started in the Fayum, which is a large oasis with a permanent lake in the Egyptian Western Desert. Noriyuki Shirai's research on lithic artefacts used by the Epipalaeolithic hunter-fishers and Neolithi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shirai, N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, 2010.
Colección:Archaeological studies Leiden University.
Temas:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Fayyūm.
Mesolithic period > Egypt > Fayyūm.
Neolithic period > Egypt > Fayyūm.
Farmers > Egypt > History.
Herders > Egypt > History.
Agriculteurs > Égypte > Histoire.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Farmers
Herders
Mesolithic period
Neolithic period
Egypt > Antiquities.
Égypte > Antiquités.
Egypt
Egypt > Fayyūm
Archeologie
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding started in the Fayum, which is a large oasis with a permanent lake in the Egyptian Western Desert. Noriyuki Shirai's research on lithic artefacts used by the Epipalaeolithic hunter-fishers and Neolithic famer-herders in the Fayum gives a clue as to the mobility and residential strategy of the Fayum people and their time and labour investments in tool production. The Neolitic famer-herders (6th C.B.C.E.) relied heavily on hunting and fishing, which had been the major subsistence activities since the E.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (402 pages).
Bibliografía:ReferencesEnglish Summary; Nederlandse samenvatting; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Curriculum Vitae.
ISBN:9789048512690
9048512697

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