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DOI | 10.1002/gea.21631 |
Holocene fluvial history of the Nile’s west bank at ancient Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, and its relation with cultural dynamics and basin-wide hydroclimatic variability | |
Toonen, Willem H. J.1; Graham, Angus2; Pennington, Benjamin T.3; Hunter, Morag A.4; Strutt, Kristian D.5; Barker, Dominic S.5; Masson-Berghoff, Aurelia6; Emery, Virginia L.7 | |
通讯作者 | Toonen, Willem H. J. |
来源期刊 | GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
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ISSN | 0883-6353 |
EISSN | 1520-6548 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 33期号:3页码:273-290 |
英文摘要 | In the Theban area around modern Luxor (Egypt), the River Nile divides the temple complexes of Karnak and Luxor from New Kingdom royal cult temples on the western desert edge. Few sites have been archaeologically identified in the western flood plain, despite its presumed pivotal role in the ancient ritual landscape as the territory that both physically divided and symbolically connected the areas inhabited by the living and the areas occupied by the dead. Using borehole data and electrical resistivity tomography, the current investigation of subsurface deposits reveals the location of an abandoned channel of the Nile. This river course was positioned in the western, distal part of the Nile flood plain. Over 2100 ceramic fragments recovered from boreholes date the abandonment of the relatively minor river channel to the (late) New Kingdom. This minor river branch could have played an important role in the cultural landscape, as it would have served to connect important localities in the ritual landscape. Changes in the fluvial landscape match with established periods of basin-wide hydroclimatic variability. This links cultural and landscape changes observed on a regional scale to hydroclimatic dynamics in the larger Nile catchment, in one of the focal areas of Ancient Egyptian cultural development. |
英文关键词 | abandoned channel ancient Egypt avulsion flood plain New Kingdom Nile paleosol |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Wales ; Sweden ; England ; USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000430288100001 |
WOS关键词 | WATERSCAPES SURVEY ; RIVER DYNAMICS ; SEDIMENT ; SETTLEMENT ; HARBORS ; KARNAK ; IMPACT ; VALLEY ; MIDDLE |
WOS类目 | Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Archaeology ; Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/209534 |
作者单位 | 1.Aberystwyth Univ, Dept Geog & Earth Sci, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, Wales; 2.Uppsala Univ, Dept Archaeol & Ancient Hist, Uppsala, Sweden; 3.Univ Southampton, Dept Geog & Environm, Southampton, Hants, England; 4.Univ Cambridge, Dept Earth Sci, Cambridge, England; 5.Univ Southampton, Dept Archaeol, Southampton, Hants, England; 6.British Museum, Dept Greece & Rome, London, England; 7.Carthage Coll, Kenosha, WI USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Toonen, Willem H. J.,Graham, Angus,Pennington, Benjamin T.,等. Holocene fluvial history of the Nile’s west bank at ancient Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, and its relation with cultural dynamics and basin-wide hydroclimatic variability[J],2018,33(3):273-290. |
APA | Toonen, Willem H. J..,Graham, Angus.,Pennington, Benjamin T..,Hunter, Morag A..,Strutt, Kristian D..,...&Emery, Virginia L..(2018).Holocene fluvial history of the Nile’s west bank at ancient Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, and its relation with cultural dynamics and basin-wide hydroclimatic variability.GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL,33(3),273-290. |
MLA | Toonen, Willem H. J.,et al."Holocene fluvial history of the Nile’s west bank at ancient Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, and its relation with cultural dynamics and basin-wide hydroclimatic variability".GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 33.3(2018):273-290. |
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