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Wadi Khashab: Unearthing Late Prehistory in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Wadi Khashab: Unearthing Late Prehistory in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Osypinska, M.
Osypinski, P.
Zych, I.

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ArchaeologyAncient Egypt

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ISBN10: 9042943815
ISBN13: 9789042943810
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Dec 31 2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 25.00
Language: English
The 5th millennium BC megalithic ceremonial complex at Wadi Khashab inthe Eastern Desert of Egypt is located almost directly in the middle ofthe Eastern Desert, on a wadi trail connecting the Valley of the Nilewith the Red Sea. The volume presents the results of three seasons ofexcavation of this site, which featured a human burial in the center ofseveral burials of cattle and sheep, within an enclosure of uprightstone slabs that must have formed an eye-catching landmark for manymiles up and down the wadi, also for the pastoral communities traversingthe mountains in later times.
The study of the animal remains fromthis remote site in the poorly known Eastern Desert has provided a verywell documented series of osteological, osteometric andarchaeozoological data on early cattle and sheep. It adds to the currentknowledge of cattle domestication in the Neolithic and early cattlemobility in northeastern Africa, offering unique information on the usesof domestic livestock not only in the funerary traditions, but also inmobility systems. It also contributes to the discussion on the originsand domestication of the auroch in Africa, pointing to a local Africanorigin for the cattle.

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