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36. An Integrated Approach to the Study of Patterns of Long-Term Settlement and Land Exploitation in the Region of the First Nile Cataract (Egypt) - Bologna University Press
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36. An Integrated Approach to the Study of Patterns of Long-Term Settlement and Land Exploitation in the Region of the First Nile Cataract (Egypt)
di Serena Nicolini
The First Nile Cataract region (Egypt) has always played a crucial role as a border area and a crossroads for cultures and people living in adjacent landscapes characterised by different cultures. The region has its central point in the modern city of Aswan, but it extends up to the Kom Ombo Plain in the north and reaches the Bab el-Kalabsha in the south, comprehending the Eastern and Western Deserts.
This volume mainly focuses on the complex mixing of archaeological evidence in a geographical and natural environment whose changes were impacted by and influenced by human activities and needs. Integrating various datasets, from historical and archaeological ones to the remote sensing observation of large areas, represents a challenging aspect of this research.
An area corresponding to ca. 18,000 km2 has been selected, and the chronological framework has been chosen to cover a considerable period, from the beginning of the 5th millennium BCE to the final Byzantine period. Throughout prehistoric and historical periods, this region has witnessed a mix of cultural traditions which have reflected on its rich archaeological record and ethnographic heritage: the Egyptian, Nubian, desert nomads, and later, Persian, Greek and Roman components are only some of the cultural entities which interacted within the landscape. A dynamic human approach to the landscape was evolving through time and contributing to the transformations of the environment.
Multi-temporality and multifu…
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Argomento
Archeologia
Disciplina
Storia
Formato
210 × 297 mm
Pagine
160
Anno
2024
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9791254775219
ISBN online
9791254775226
DOI
10.30682/disciarche36
Materiali didattici
Online resources - Nicolini 2024