Tides of the Desert
Africa Praehistorica 14
Edited by: Jennerstrasse 8.


Heinrich Barth Institut, Köln, 2002


Contents


PROLOG

1 Jennerstrasse 8 - The Editors, Eine Festschrift Für Rudolph Kuper 12
  Wissenschaftliche Biographie Rudolph Kuper 15
  Schriftenverzeichnis Rudolph Kuper 16
2 Desmond Clark+, A Note of Appreciation of Rudolph Kuper's Research in the Western Desert of Egypt and on Holocene and Earlier Localities and Problems needing Investigation 19
3 Jens Lüning, Ä3 ruft Ä1 - Ganz persönliche Eindrücke bei einer Ägyptenreise mit Rudolph Kuper 21

ARCHEOLOGY IN EGYPT

4 Pierre M. Vermeersch, The Egyptian Nile Valley during the Early Holocene 27
5 Baldur Gabriel, Neolithic Camp Sites in the Sahara - Anticipation of Future Research 41
6 Klaus Bokelmann, Einige Libyan-Desert-Glass-Artefakte des Atérien aus der Glass Area in Südwest-Ägypten 67
7 Joachim Hahn+, Ein Klingendepot am Djebel Kamil (Ägypten) 75
8 Birgit Gehlen, Karin Kindermann, Jörg Linstädter and Heiko Reimer, The Holocene Occupation of the Eastern Sahara: Regional Chronologies and Supra-regional Developments in four Areas in the Absolute Desert 85
9 Romuald Schild, Michal Kobusiewicz, Fred Wendorf, Joel D. Irish, Jacek Kabacinski and Halina Królik, Gebel Ramlah Playa (Egypt) 117
10 Klaus Peter Kuhlmann, The "Oasis Bypath" or The Issue of Desert Trade in Pharaonic Times 125
11 Wim Van Neer and Steven E. Sidebotham, Animal Remains from the fourth-sixth Century AD Military Installations near Abu Sha'ar at the Red Sea Coast (Egypt) 171

ARCHEOLOGY IN SUDAN

12 Lech Krzyzaniak, Early Khartoum Pottery from Kadero 199
13 Jacques Reynold, Néolithique du Soudan central et de Haute Nubie - données sur le matérial céramique 203
14 Brigitte Gratien, La fin du royaume Kerma - la situation dans l'arriere-pays 219
15 Isabella Ganeva, Second Milleneum BC Pastoral Cultures in the Nile Valley: The Gosts of the Khartoum Province? 231
16 Werner Schuck, Steinzeitliche Gräber im Wadi Shaw (Nordsudan) 239
17 Christian Simon+, Roland Menk+ and Christiane Kramar, The Human Remains from Wadi Shaw (Sudan) - A Study of Physical Anthroplogy and Paleopathology 257
18 Friederike Jesse and Birgit Keding, Death in the Desert - Burials in the Wadi Howar Region (Eastern Sahara) 277
19 Wilfried Henke, Erik Becker und Michael Stang, Menschliche Skelettreste aus dem Wadi Howar (Sudan) - voräuflige anthrolpologische Befunde 295
20 Werner Schön, Survey before GPS - Some Remarks on Archaeological Sites on the Northern Bank of the Middle Wadi Howar (Sudan) 313
21 Hubert Berke, An Unusual Fireplace in the Middle Wadi Howar (Sudan) 321
22 Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath and Angela von den Driesch, Ichtyological Diversity in the Holocene Paleodrainage Systems of Western Nubia 325
23 Achilles Gautier, Veerle Linseele and Wim Van Neer, The Fauna of the Early Khartoum Occupation on Jebel Umm Marrahi (Khartoum Province, Sudan) 325

GEO-SCIENCES IN NORTH AFRICA

24 Horst Hagedorn, Auf den Spuren Gustav Nachtigals im Borku-Berglang (Tschad) 347
25 Eberhard Klitzsch, Der Wasser der Wüste - ein kurzer Bezug zur Besiedlungsgeschichte einer Wüste und zu deren Zukunft 357
26 Bernd Meissner mit einem Beitrag von Ulla Ripke, Kartierung entlegener Regionen - Chancen und Risiken der Weiterentwicklung der Kartiermethoden durch Fernerkundung und navigationsgestütztes GIS-Management 363
27 Nicole Petit-Maire, Large Interglacial lakes in the Saharo-Arab Desert Belt 371
28 Philipp Hoelzmann, Lacustrine Sediments as indicators of Climate Change during the Late Quaternary in Western Nubia (Eastern Sahara) 375
29 Helga Besler with a contribution by Alexandra Hilgers, The Formation of Artefact-stabilized Dunes near Lower Wadi Howar (Sudan) 389
30 Ginette Aumassip, Les formations quaternaires du secteur de Tin Hanakaten (Tassili n Ajjer, Algérie) 399
31 Stefan Kröpelin, Damage to Natural and Cultural Heritage by Petroleum Exploration and Desert Tourism in the Messak Settafet (Central Sahara, Southwest Libya) 405

SAHARA AND BEYOND

32 John Alexander, The Global Significance of African Civilisation 427
33 Lutz Fiedler, Artefakte, Denken und Kultur 437
34 Andrew B. Smith, The Pastoral Landscape in Saharan Prehistory 447
35 Angela E. Close, Sinai, Sahara, Sahel: The Introduction of Domestic Caprines to Africa 459
36 Karim Sadr, Ancient Pastoralists in the Sudan and in South Africa 471
37 Hans Back, "Jouets chameau" - Steinartefakte der Nomadenkinder 485
38 Peter Breunig & Katharina Neumann, Continuity or Discontinuity The 1st Millenium BC-Crisis in West African Prehistory 491
39 Manfred Eggert, Southern Cameroun and the Settlement of the Equatorial Rainforest: Early Ceramics from Fieldwork in 1997 and 1998-99 507
40 Jürgen Richter, The Giraffe People: Namibia's Prehistoric Artists 523
41 Ralf Vogelsang, Rock Art in the Kaokoland? 535
42 Tilman Lenssen-Enz, Art for Art's Sake in Rock Art Research - On the Ethics of Archaeological Documentation 549