essay
Contributions to the study of the Early and Middle Paleolithic of Nubia
prehistory of nubia; [final report] papers assembled and • [Taos, N.M.] • Published In 1968 • Pages: 148-193
By: Guichard, Jean, Guichard, Geneviève, Friedlander, Judith.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Guichards write of their fieldwork with Acheulean and Mousterian (Early and Middle Paleolithic) sites in the Wadi Halfa area. Only the Middle Paleolithic material was indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. They describe their findings and provide pictures of some of the numerous stone tools and cores found. No absolute dates are available for the Middle Paleolithic material and it has been dated by comparison with other collections. The analysis of the artifacts led the Guichards to propose three different facies for the Nubian Middle Paleolithic and that Nubia was a separate province from the rest of Africa and the Near East during the Middle Paleolithic period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Middle Paleolithic Egypt
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Paleolithic
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wadi Halfa area; Nile Valley, northern Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jean and Geneviève Guichard ; translated by Judith Friedlander
- For bibliographical references see document 6: [Wendorf]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68018382
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleolithic period--Egypt