An excellent copy in great condition. Cover shows faint signs of use, but is unmarked and undamaged. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Publisher's note: The first Dakhleh Oasis Project seminar held at Durham University in 1994 was the occasion for discussion of topics ranging from the Pleistocene to paleoepidemiology and papyri. Size: 29.2 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm. 120 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Archaeology; Dakhleh Oasis Project -- Congresses; ISBN: 1900188546. ISBN/EAN: 9781900188548. Add. Inventory No: 260213RSH011366.

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Title

The Oasis Papers : Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (Dakhleh Oasis Project, Monograph 6)

Publisher

Oxbow Books, Oxford & Havertown

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

1900188546

ISBN 13

9781900188548

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

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The first Dakhleh Oasis Project seminar held at Durham University in 1994 was the occasion for discussion of topics ranging from the Pleistocene to paleoepidemiology and papyri.

Table of Contents

Introduction (C A Marlow)
Section 1: The Dakhleh Oasis in Prehistory
What is the Aterian? The View from Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert, Egypt(M Kleindienst)
Problems in the prehistory of the Late Upper Pleistocene of the Dakhleh Oasis (M F Wiseman)
The Late prehistoric radiocarbon chronology for Dakhleh Oasis within the wider environmental and cultural setting of the Egyptian Western Desert (Mary M A McDonald)
Section 2: The Dakhleh Oasis in the Roman Period
Observations on the dating of the occupation at Ismant el-Kharab (C A Hope)
A suggested interpretation of the coin-finds of Ismant el-Kharab (G E Bowen)
The Greek documentary papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab):an interim report (K A Worp)
Local perceptions of fertility of the Dakhleh Oasis in the Roman period (O E Kaper)
Section 3: Past Populations of Dakhleh: an Anthropological Perspective
The comparative skeletal biology and paleoepidemiology of the people from Ein Tirghi and Kellis, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (J E Molto)
Microns, microbes, microscopes and molecules (M Cook & P Sheldrick)
Miscarriages and infant burials in the Dakhleh cemeteries: an archaeological examination of status (C A Marlow)
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