Early African Pastoralism: View from Dakhleh Oasis (South Central Egypt)

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary M.A. McDonald
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1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Brookes

AbstractTwenty samples of artifactual ostrich eggshell and hearth charcoal, firmly to loosely associated with basinal lacustrine, playa, and sand sheet sediments in the Dakhleh Oasis region of south-central Egypt, yield radiocarbon ages between ca. 8800 and ca. 4700 yr B.P. The sediments record variable sedimentary responses to an early Holocene pluvial interval in this virtually rainless region. Differences of hydrogeology and morphometry among and within basin types complicate paleoclimatic interpretation.


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