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Palaeoenvironment: The Quaternary Faunas of Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt (Charles S. Churcher, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Marcia F. Wiseman and Mary M. A. McDonald); Water in the Desert: First Report on Uranium-Series Dating of Caton-Thompson's and Gardner's 'Classic' Pleistocene Sequence at Refuf Pass, Kharga Oasis (Maxine R. Kleindienst, Henry P. Schwarcz, Kathleen A. Nicoll, Charles S. Churcher, Jacqueline Frizano, Robert Giegengack and Marcia F. Wiseman); Fire in the Desert: The Occurrence of a High-Ca Silicate Glass near the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Henry P. Schwarcz, Robert Szkudlarek, Maxine R. Kleindienst and Norman Evensen); Prehistory: Preliminary Report on the Aterian at Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt (Alicia L. Hawkins); Emerging Social Complexity in the Mid-Holocene Egyptian Western Desert: Site and its Neighbours in South-Eastern Dakhleh Oasis (Mary M. A. McDonald); Neolithic Dental Remains from Sheikh Muftah, Dakhleh Oasis: A Preliminary Report (Jennifer L. Thompson); Historical Archaeology: Economy and Ecology in the Kellis Agricultural Account Book (Roger S. Bagnall); Dining in the Dakhleh Oasis: Determining Diet from Stable Isotopes (Tosha L. Dupras, Henry P. Schwarcz and Scott I. Fairgrieve); Some Comments on Kinship Terms in the Coptic Documentary Papyri from Ismant el-Kharab (Iain Gardner); The Archaeology of the Kellis 2 Cemetery (Peter Sheldrick); Plant Remains from Habitation Areas at Kellis: Some Considerations concerning their Accumulation (Ursula Thanheiser and Christiane Konig); Conservation: Conservation at Ismant el-Kharab: Examples of Wall Painting in Shrine I (Laurence Blondaux); Aspects of Conservation in the Dakhleh Oasis (Anthony J. Mills); Museology in the Oasis (Roberta Shaw); Abstracts: Chemical Reconstruction of Principal Human Dietary Components of Ptolemaic and Early Roman Mummies from Dakhleh Oasis (Arthur C. Aufderheide, Michael Zlonis,Larry Cartmell, J. Eldon Molto and Peter Sheldrick); Mummification Practices at Dakhleh Oasis during the Ptolemaic and Early Roman Periods (Arthur C. Aufderheide, Michael Zlonis, Larry Cartmell, J. Eldon Molto and Peter Sheldrick); Cribra Orbitalia - Diachronic Patterns and Interpretations from 'Ain Tirghi and Kellis Cemeteries (Scott I. Fairgrieve and J. Eldon Molto); The Bioarchaeology of Kellis 2 with an Emphasis on Mortality and Morbidity (J. Eldon Molto)
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edited by Marcia F Wiseman
Summary
This volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997). Four abstracts from papers not submitted to the published volume are also included, as is the original conference programme.
