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Tradition summaryessay 2004 • Wendorf, Fred
Middle Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This is a summary of the Middle Paleolithic Egypt Tradition....Tradition summaryessay 2005 • Wendorf, Fred
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This is a summary of the Late Paleolithic Egypt Tradition....Late Paleolithic sites in Egyptian Nubiaessay 1968 • Wendorf, Fred
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
Wendorf describes the sites near Ballana and Tushka. The sites consisted mainly of stone tools. Four main lithic industries were found: Ballanan, Halafan, Qadan, and Sebilian. Faunal remains were found at many of the sites. Several burials were also ...Fakhurian-related sitesessay 1989 • Wendorf, Fred
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This is a brief introduction to the reports on the Fakhurian-related sites. Their location is descibed, the sites are dated, and a map of their location is provided....Bibliographyessay 1997 • Wendorf, Fred
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This document is the bibliography for eHRAF document numbers 12-17....Introductionessay 1997 • Wendorf, Fred & Schild, Romuald
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
Wendorf and Schild discuss the study of site E71K12. This chapter discusses how the site came to be chosen for study and why there was a large gap between when it was discovered and when they managed to return to do the current, limited salvage excav...Lithic artifactsessay 1997 • Wendorf, Fred & Schild, Romuald
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This chapter describes the lithic artifacts found at site K12 during the 1995 season. It describes the lithic material used, the debitage, cores, types of tools made (using the classification system proposed by Tixier in 1963), and briefly compares t...General conclusionsessay 1997 • Wendorf, Fred & Schild, Romuald
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
The major results of the analysis of the excavated assemblage from Site K12 are presented in this chapter. Summarized are the environmental setting, the fauna, the radiocarbon dates, the lithic tools, seasonality, and how the site was used. How the s...Bibliographyessay 1968 • Wendorf, Fred et al.
Middle Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This is the bibliography for eHRAF documents nos. 2-5....Referencesessay 1989 • Wendorf, Fred et al.
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This document is the bibliography for eHRAF document numbers 6, 8, 9, and 10....Egypt during the last interglacial 1993 • Wendorf, Fred et al.
Middle Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This large volume describes the fieldwork and findings from the geological and archaeological fieldwork at 17 Middle Paleolithic sites in two deflational basins in the Sahara of southwestern Egypt. Also described are the several dating techniques use...Geomorphology, stratigraphy, chronology and paleoenvironment of Site E71K12essay 1997 • Schild, Romuald & Wendorf, Fred
Late Paleolithic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
Schild and Wendorf describe the geology around the site E71K12 and its placement in the surrounding geologic strata. They also describe the stratigraphy, excavation, chronology, and setting of the site. They conclude 'the occupation at Site E71K12 co...North Africa at 18000 BPbook chapter 1990 • Close, Angela E. & Wendorf, Fred
Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Maghreb • Africa > Northern Africa
Close reviews the known sites along the coast of Africa at 18,000 B.P. She describes the paleoenvironment, site distribution, the economy and diet of the inhabitants of the various sites, and the physical type of their human population. One interesti...