The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt: New Insights Into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic

ISBN-13: 9789087280796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 402 str.

N. Shirai; Noriyuki Shirai

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This exhaustive study explores the rise of farming and herding in the Fayum oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert. The neolithic farmer-herders in the Fayum relied heavily on hunting and fishing, which had been the major subsistence activities since the Epipaleolithic period. Shiari's research on lithic artifacts used by the Epipaleolithic hunter-fishers and Neolithic farmer-herders in the Fayum is a unique investigation into the mobility and residential strategy of the Fayum people and their time and labor investments in tool production.

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Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Neolithisation in Egypt in a wider context
3. Background to research in the Fayum
4. Explanatory and predictive models for the beginning of farming and herding in the Fayum
5. The Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the light of new survey results
6. Lithic technological organisation and mobility in the Fayum Epipalaeolithic
7. Lithic technological organisation and mobility in the Fayum Neolithic
8. The diffusion of material culture and domesticates from the Levant to Egypt
9. Synthesis
References
English Summary
Nederlandse samenvatting
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Curriculum Vitae