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The archaeology of the Dishna Plain, EgyptBook 1974 • Hassan, Fekri A.
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
Hassan analyzed the lithic collections from 10 'occurrences' from the Dishna Plain near Qena. The remains from these occurrences consisted only of lithic artifacts. Hassan compares the artifacts from the Dishna Plain with other Late Paleolithic lithi...The Predynastic of Egyptarticle 1988 • Hassan, Fekri A.
Upper Egypt Predynastic • Africa > Northern Africa
Hassan writes an overview of the Predynastic period for both Lower and Upper Egypt and then provides his model of the emergence and formation of the Egyptian Dynastic state by an examination of power and the rise of political power. Some of the topic...Holocene Palaeoclimates of Africaarticle 1997 • Hassan, Fekri A.
West African Late Stone Age • Africa > Western Africa
The author provides a continent-wide overview of the paleoclimate of Holocene Africa. The data indicate a remarkable coherence in regional climatic regimes, including variations in rainfall (e.g. a drought in the Sahel leads to a drought along the Ni...