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DOI10.1002/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
ISSN0883-6353
EISSN1520-6548
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
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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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