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From the Organizers and Editors..................................................................................................... 9List of Participants in the Symposium............................................................................................. 10
I. North African littoral and the Sahara
Graeme BarkerThe UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey: environmental change and human settlement inTripolitania................................................................................................................................ 15
Krystyna WasylikowaPlant macrofossils from the archaeological sites of Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, South-western Libya............................................................................................................................ 25
Mieczyslaw F. PazdurEvaluation of radiocarbon dates of organic samples from Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya ................................................................................. ... 43
J. Desmond ClarkThe Aterian of the Central Sahara .......................................... 49
Andrew B. SmithTerminal Palaeolithic industries of Sahara: a discussion of new data 69
Andrew B. SmithNew approaches to Saharan rock art of the Bovidian Period 77
RobertVernetLe Neolithique recent dans le sud-ouest du Sahara................................................................... 91
II. Eastem Sahara
Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Angela E. CloseMiddle Palaeolithic occupations at Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Western DesertofEgypt ....................................................................................................................................... 103
Angela E. CloseBT-14, a stratified Middle Palaeolithic site at Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt ... 113
Achilles GautierThe faunal spectrum of the Middle Palaeolithic in Bir Tarfawi, Western Desert of Egypt . 123
Philip van PeerLevallois variability and the Middle Palaeolithic of the Lower Nile Valley and the Eastern Sahara ........................................................................................................................................... 129
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Andreas DrrrMANNEnvironmental and climatic change in the northem part of the Eastem Desert during MiddlePalaeolithic and Neolithic times............................................................................................. 145
Katharina NeumannHolocene vegetation of the Eastem Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites....................... 153
Barbara E. BarichCulture and environment between the Sahara and the Nile in the Early and Mid-Holocene..................................................................................... 171
Erwin CzieslaInvestigations into the archaeology of the Sitra-Hatiyet, Northwestern Egypt ............... 185
Mary M.A. McE)onaldCultural adaptations in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, in the Early to Mid-Holocene................... 199
Ian A. BrookesEarly Holocene basinal sediments of the Dakhleh Oasis region, Egypt (theses)............... 211
Rudolph KuperSahel in Egypt: environmental change and cultural development in the Abu Ballas area,Libyan Desert............................................................................................................................ 213
Joachim HahnNeolithic settlement pattems in the Gebel Kamil area, Southwestem Egypt ................... 225
WernerSchuckAn archaeological survey of the Selima Sandsheet, Sudan.................................................. 237
Stefan KropelinThe Gilf Kebir and Lower Wadi Howar: contrasting Early and Mid-Holocene environments in the Eastem Sahara................................................................................................................ 249
III. The Nile Delta, the Fayum and the Egyptian Nile Valley
JURGEN WUNDERLICHThe natural conditions for Pre- and Early Dynastic settlement in the Western Nile Deltaaround Tell el-Fara'in, Buto..................................................................................................... 259
Klaus SchmidtComments to the lithic industry of the Buto-Maadi culture in Lower Egypt ................... 267
Edwin C.M. van den BrinkSettlement pattems in the Northeastem Nile Delta during the fourth-second millen-nia B.C............................................................................................................................................ 279
Huib E. de WitThe evolution of the Eastem Nile Delta as a factor in the development of human culture . 305
Lech KrzyzaniakNew data on the late prehistoric settlement at Minshat Abu Omar, Eastem Nile Delta . . 321
Janusz K. Kozlowski and Boleslaw GinterHolocene changes in the Fayum: Lake Moeris and the evolution of climate in North-eastern Africa............................................................................................................................ 327
Pierre M. Vermeersch and Etienne PaulissenPalaeolithic chert quarrying and mining in Egypt.................................................................. 337
Maria LitynskaPlant remains from the Neolithic site at Armant: preliminary report ............................... 351
Maciej PawukowskiMineralogy of the Nile Valley sediments as an indicator of changes of climate: the Armant-Luxor area, Upper Egypt........................................................................................................ 355
Michael A. Hoffman and James O. MillsProblems of assessing environmental impact on the Predynastic settlements of Hierakonpolis............................................................................................................................ 359
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IV. The Sudan
BirgitKedingLeiterband sites in the Wadi Howar, North Sudan .............................................................. 371
Henri J. Dumont and Asim I. el MoghrabyHolocene evolution of climate and environment, and stone “city" ruins in Northem Darfur,Sudan: is there a relationship? ................................................................................................. 381
Louis Chaix and Annie GrantPalaeoenvironment and economy at Kerma, Northem Sudan, during the third millenniumB.C.:archaeozoologicalandbotanicalevidence...................................................................... 399
ISABELLA CANEVAPre-pastoral Middle Nile: local developments and Saharan contacts................................... 405
JorisPetersAnimal exploitation between the fifth and the sixth Cataract ca. 8,500-7,000 B.P.: a pre-liminary report on the faunas from E1 Damer, Abu Darbein and Aneibis........................... 413
KarimSadrEnvironmental change and the development of nomadism in the East-Central Sudan . . 421
Anthony E. MarksClimatic and cultural changes in the Southem Atbai, Sudan, from the fifth through thethird millennium B.C................................................................................................................... 431
Rodolfo FattovichThe Gash Group of the Eastem Sudan: an outline.................................................................. 439
V. The Hom of Africa
Baldur Gabriel, Bernd Voigt and Mumin Mohamud GhodQuatemary ecology in Northem Somalia: a preliminary field report ............................... 449
Mauro Coltorti and Margherita MussiHunter-gatherers of the Middle Juba Valley, Southern Somalia, during the Early Holocene 459
VI. Varia
Mieczyslaw F. Pazdur and Danuta J. MichczynskaProbabilistic calibration of radiocarbon dates with specific examples from NortheastemAfrica........................................................................................................................................... 473
Tsuyoshi FujimotoStudies of wear on grinding stones......................................................................................... 485
Maria Casini
Craft production in Lower Egypt during Late Predynastic times with special reference to Ma'adi................................................................................................................................... 491