essay
Environmental conditions for early settlement at Minshat Abu Omar, Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt
nile delta in transition : 4th.-3rd. millennium b.c. : proceedings of the seminar held in cairo, 21.-24. october 1990, at the netherlands institute of archaeology and arabic studies • Tel Aviv, Israel • Published In 1992 • Pages: 157-166
By: Andres, Wolfgang, Wunderlich, Jürgen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Drillings and geo-electical soundings for paleogeographical investigations were conducted to determine the subsurface around Minshat Abu Omar. Swamps or marsh were near the mound in the 4th to 3rd millenium B.C. Minshat Abu Omar and the eastern Delta are compared to the western Delta. One point of these investigations is to find out where settlements might be found. The environmental conditions back to the Neolithic were discussed. Only the data that pertain to the Late Chalcolithic to the Early Dynastic periods were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Topography and geology
- Soil
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Dynastic Egypt
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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 ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 5500 BP- 5000 BP (3500 B.C.-3000 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Minshat Abu Omar and the Delta; Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wolfgang Andres and Jürgen Wunderlich
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-166)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93135611
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Egypt--Antiquities/Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.