Advances in World Archaeology, Vol. 5

Politics & Social Sciences

Wendorf, Fred

Archaeology

Academic Pr

Advances in World Archaeology, Vol. 3, 1984

History

Americas

by Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Angela E. Close INTRODUCTION roughly contemporaneous with the later part of Isotope Stage 7; most sites occur in sediments dated between 100 The Middle Paleolithic is potentially one of the most and 130 ka and fall early in the Last Interglacial; the most interesting periods in human history. It marks a major recent Middle Paleolithic site dates between 70 and 80 ka. at break from the long period of the Lower Paleolithic when the end of the Last Interglacial. there was essentially no change for several hundreds of thousands of years, and it was during the Middle THE MODERN ENVIRONMENT Paleolithic, and probably early in that stage, that the The two depressions of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East are modem form of human being first appeared in Africa (Stringer and Andrews 1988). We do not know whether the near the center of the southern Libyan Desert. They are earliest modem Africans behaved differently from Middle about 350 km southwest of Kharga Oasis, and the same Paleolithic people elsewhere in the world and of different distance west and slightly north of Abu Simbel, at 22°55'N, physical types, but we should find out. A study of human 28°45'E.

Egypt During the Last Interglacial: The Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East

Schild, Romuald

Close, Angela E.

Middle East

Springer

Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara: Volume 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa

by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild The Eastern Sahara is a fascinating place to study structures. These larger, more complex sites are almost prehistory. Confronted with the stark reality of a hyper always in the lower parts of large basins, most of which arid environment that receives no measurable rainfall, were formed by deflation during the Late Pleistocene lacks vegetation, and is seemingly without life, it would hyper-arid interval between about 65,000 and 13,000 seem to be an unlikely place to find a rich and complex years ago. Their location near the floor of these basins mosaic of archaeological remains documenting past was influenced primarily by one factor - water. During human presence. Despite this impression of a hostile wet phases, runoff from extensive catchment areas environment, there is widespread and abundant caused the development of large, deep, seasonal lakes, archaeological evidence. or playas, in the lowermost parts of these basins. This It is obvious that this area was not always a lifeless surface water would last for several weeks or months desert. Faunal and plant remains found in the excavations after the seasonal rains, and by digging wells after the at Holocene-age settlements, dating between 9500 and playa became dry, water could still be obtained during 5000 radiocarbon years ago, indicate that rainfall during most, if not all, of the dry season.

Ancient Civilizations

The Midland discovery;: A report on the Pleistocene human remains from Midland, Texas,

Greenwood Press

Prehistory of Nubia (2 Volumes)

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Prehistory of Wadi Kubbaniya (Vol 2 and Vol 3)

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

"Celebrated by his colleagues in the Americas, Europe, and Africa as a brilliant innovator who made significant advances in archaeological method and theory, Fred Wendorf has been a dominant figure in American and North African archaeology in an extremely productive career spanning nearly six decades. His engaging autobiography chronicles his personal and professional lives--warts and all."--Don D. Fowler, Mamie Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Nevada-Reno
 "Fred Wendorf is an archaeological Midas. He and his collaborators have written the prehistory for vast swaths of the Sahara, work that involves adventure, decades-long persistence, and the ability to piece together seemingly irreconcilable small pieces of a very large jigsaw puzzle."--John Yellen, president of the Paleoanthropology Society and for many years an excavator in Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Congo
 "Wendorf's rousing good story of archaeological adventures in harsh desert environments demonstrates that real archaeological adventures are only made possible by good planning, sound organization, scientific discipline, and hard work."--Raymond H. Thompson, Riecker Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Arizona, and Director Emeritus, Arizona State Museum
 "Fred Wendorf's memoir is unique in the literature of American archaeology. A fascinating read."--Lewis Binford, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Southern Methodist University
 Archaeologists know that Fred Wendorf's expeditions produced most of what we know about the stone age prehistory of northeastern Africa. They also realize that he contributed centrally to the archaeology of the American Southwest before he focused his talents on Africa. They know he's consistently reported his research in timely, thorough, and lucid monographs. In this book, they'll discover he can also describe, with modesty and candor, the circumstances that shaped his extraordinary career."--Richard Klein, Professor of Biology and Anthropology and Bass Professor in Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

Desert Days: My Life As a Field Archaeologist

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Texas A&M University Press

Based on field work conducted in 1996 by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE) in the upper Wadi Girafi Basin, An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, sheds further light on the Timnian Tradition of the southern Levant, one of the earliest (7000-3000 b.p.) nomadic pastoral cultures described to date.The results of their research indicate that there were two distinct settlement patterns that were alternating adaptive responses to changing climatic conditions. First, a regional environmental analysis shows that nomadic tent pastoralists herding goats, sheep, as well as cattle were responding to desert living during arid times. The settlement data reveal this adaptation in two periods, once during the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) (6500-4800 b.p.) and again during the Middle Bronze Age (3800-3300 b.p.).
By contrast, the second pattern-that of semi-nomadic village pastoralists-was a solution to life in the wetter climate that appeared during the Early Bronze Age (4800-3800 b.p.). Thus, the authors maintain, the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age archaeology shows a pattern in which the fully nomadic tent community alternated with seminomadic village pastoralists according to the intensity of rainfall and availability of forage.
An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, is divided into two parts, one describing the results of the survey and the other detailing the later excavations in the fall. Complete with 101 line drawings, 60 maps, and 23 black- and-white photos, this book is essential reading for scholars interested in the pre-historic archaeology of the Sinai region.

An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt

Eddy, Frank W.

University Press of Colorado

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