Nile Basin - Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments

Discusses how prehistoric humans responded to the environmental and climatic changes within the Nile Basin during the past million years.

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution of the Nile Basin; 3. Climate and hydrology; 4. Geology and soils; 5. Vegetation, land use and human impact; 6. The Ethiopian Highlands; 7. The Ugandan Lake Plateau; 8. The Sudd swamps and the White Nile; 9. Lake Turkana and overflow into the Sobat; 10. The Khor Abu Habl Fan and Kordofan desert dunes; 11. The Gezira alluvial fan and Blue Nile palaeochannels; 12. The Atbara valley; 13. Jebel Marra volcano; 14. The desert Nile; 15. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part one; 16. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part two; 17. The Fayum; 18. The Red Sea Hills; 19. The Sinai desert; 20. The Nile Delta; 21. The Nile Cone; 22. Origins of plant and animal domestication in the Nile Basin; 23. Epilogue: 'out of Africa'; References; Index.

About the author

Martin Williams is Adjunct Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has worked with archaeologists in the Sahara, Nile Valley and Ethiopia, and has written over two hundred research papers and a dozen books, including Climatic Change in Deserts (Cambridge, 2014), A Land Between Two Niles (with Donald Adamson, 1982) and The Sahara and the Nile (with Hugues Faure, 1980). He received the Farouk El Baz Award for Desert Research from the Geological Society of America in 2008.

Summary

This book provides detailed reconstructions of past environmental changes in the Nile Basin and considers how prehistoric humans adapted or failed to adapt to these changes. It will greatly assist archaeologists, geographers and planners who need to understand how the Nile has responded to past climatic changes in its headwaters.

Product details

• Authors: WILLIAM MARTIN A. J, Martin Williams, Martin (University of Adelaide) Williams, Martin A. J. Williams, Martin A. J. (University of Adelaide) Williams, Williams Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107179196
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17919-6
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Asia, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Geological surface processes (geomorphology), Archaeology by period / region, Physical geography & topography, Human Geography, Pacific Ocean, Historical Geology, Landscape Archaeology, Historical geology and palaeogeology, Physical geography and topography, Sub-Saharan Africa, Environmental archaeology, Geomorphology and geological surface processes