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Egypt During the Last Interglacial

The Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

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  1. Fred Wendorf

    1. Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

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  2. Romuald Schild

    1. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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  3. Angela E. Close

    1. Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild, Angela E. Close
      Pages 1-7

  3. Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironment and Chronology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10
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    2. Contribution to the Stratigraphy of the Area of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

      • Bahay Issawi
      Pages 11-14

    3. Middle Paleolithic Lakes in the Southwestern Desert of Egypt

      • Romuald Schild, Fred Wendorf
      Pages 15-65

    4. Sedimentology of Pleistocene Deposits Associated with Middle Paleolithic Sites in Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

      • Christopher L. Hill
      Pages 66-105

    5. Chemical Stratigraphy of Lacustrine Sequences Deposited During Latest Pleistocene Pluvial Periods in the Eastern Sahara

      • Judith A. McKenzie
      Pages 106-114

    6. Lacustrine Paleoenvironments of the Area of Bir Tarfawi-Bir Sahara East Reconstructed from Fossil Ostracods and the Chemistry of their Shells

      • P. De Deckker, M. A. J. Williams
      Pages 115-119

    7. Diatoms from the Pool in Section BT-A of Bir Tarfawi

      • Barbara Marciniak
      Pages 120-120

    8. The Middle Paleolithic Archaeofaunas from Bir Tarfawi (Western Desert, Egypt)

      • Achilles Gautier
      Pages 121-143

    9. Fish Remains from the Last Interglacial at Bir Tarfawi (Eastern Sahara, Egypt)

      • Wim Van Neer
      Pages 144-154

    10. Remains of Small Vertebrates from Bir Tarfawi and Their Paleoecological Significance

      • Kazimierz Kowalski, Zbigniew Szyndlar, Marian Mlynarski, Zygmunt BocheÅ„ski, Barbara Rzebik-Kowalska
      Pages 155-204

    11. Uranium-Series Dating of Carbonates from Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

      • Henry P. Schwarcz, Lidia Morawska
      Pages 205-217

    12. Bir Tarfawi: A Stratigraphic Test of Uranium-Series Dating of Tooth Enamel

      • Curtis R. McKinney
      Pages 218-223

    13. Thermoluminescence Dating of Deposits from the Area of Bir Sahara East and Bir Tarfawi

      • Andrzej Bluszcz
      Pages 224-226

    14. Thermoluminescence Dates for Burnt Earth Samples from Bir Sahara East and a Burnt Core from Bir Tarfawi

      • J. Huxtable
      Pages 227-228

    15. Optical Dating of Sediment Samples from Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East: an Initial Report

      • Stephen Stokes
      Pages 229-233

    16. Electron Spin Resonance Dating of Tooth Enamel from Bir Tarfawi

      • Henry P. Schwarcz, Rainer Grün
      Pages 234-237

    17. ESR Study of Materials from the Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi

      • Don Robins
      Pages 238-240

    18. Chronology of Hominid Occupation at Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Based on the Epimerization of Isoleucine in Ostrich Eggshells

      • Gifford H. Miller
      Pages 241-251
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by Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Angela E. Close INTRODUCTION roughly contemporaneous with the later part of Isotope Stage 7; most sites occur in sediments dated between 100 The Middle Paleolithic is potentially one of the most and 130 ka and fall early in the Last Interglacial; the most interesting periods in human history. It marks a major recent Middle Paleolithic site dates between 70 and 80 ka. at break from the long period of the Lower Paleolithic when the end of the Last Interglacial. there was essentially no change for several hundreds of thousands of years, and it was during the Middle THE MODERN ENVIRONMENT Paleolithic, and probably early in that stage, that the The two depressions of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East are modem form of human being first appeared in Africa (Stringer and Andrews 1988). We do not know whether the near the center of the southern Libyan Desert. They are earliest modem Africans behaved differently from Middle about 350 km southwest of Kharga Oasis, and the same Paleolithic people elsewhere in the world and of different distance west and slightly north of Abu Simbel, at 22°55'N, physical types, but we should find out. A study of human 28°45'E.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

    Fred Wendorf, Angela E. Close

  • Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Romuald Schild

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Egypt During the Last Interglacial

  • Book Subtitle: The Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

  • Authors: Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild, Angela E. Close

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2908-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44409-8Published: 30 April 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6261-6Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-2908-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 596

  • Topics: Archaeology, History, general

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