The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated - 9781938770098

Description: The Desert Fayum ReinvestigatedThe Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt Author(s): Simon J. Holdaway, Willeke Wendrich Format: Hardback Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, United States Imprint: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA ISBN-13: 9781938770098, 978-1938770098 Synopsis The Neolithic in Egypt is thought to have arrived via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia. In this volume, the authors advocate an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They present a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape 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 to the Fayum 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.

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Book Title: The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated

Number of Pages: 282 Pages

Publication Name: The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated: The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt

Language: English

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA

Item Height: 278 mm

Subject: Archaeology

Publication Year: 2017

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 1129 g

Author: Willeke Wendrich, Simon J. Holdaway

Item Width: 215 mm

Series: Monumenta Archaeologica

Format: Hardcover