Book
Kharga Oasis in prehistory
University of London • London • Published In 1952 • Pages:
By: Caton-Thompson, Gertrude.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Caton-Thompson and others conducted archaeological and geological fieldwork in the Saharan desert to the west of the Nile Valley in the early 1930s, although the work was not published until 1952. Most of the work was conducted around fossilized spring mounds in the depression around Kharga Oasis and in the wadis along the edge of the Libyan plateau. This report discusses the Acheulean period through the Bedouin Microlithic and Peasant Neolithic periods. Only the time periods that pertain to the Middle Paleolithic are indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects; this means the Lower and Upper Levalloisian, the Levalloiso-Khargan, Khargan Industry, and the Aterian periods were marked. Caton-Thompson describes the geological strata in detail as this provided most of the clues needed to date the various sites and strata. The stone tools found are also described in detail with numerous plates at the end of the document. This monograph is particularly important for the infomation it contains on the Aterian.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Topography and geology
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Lithic industries
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- Book
- 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 ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928, 1930-1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Paleolithic (probably 230,000 BP-60,000 BP)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kharga Oasis and environs; Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- with a physiographic introd. by E.W. Gardner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 52035845
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleolithic period--Egypt