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DOI	10.1007/s10437-020-09384-9
	The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (Tenth-Ninth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert
	Mutri, Giuseppina 1; Barich, Barbara B. E.2; Lucarini, Giulio 3,4,5,6
通讯作者	Lucarini, Giulio
来源期刊	AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW
ISSN	0263-0338
EISSN	1572-9842
出版年	2020
卷号	37 期号:3 页码:383-411
英文摘要	The widespread utilization of laminar industries with backed retouch is the most characteristic feature of North African Later Stone Age contexts-from the Maghreb to the Nile Valley-between the end of the Pleistocene and the Early Holocene. These laminar microliths represent a true technological revolution triggered by the need for new tools to exploit a different range of resources available due to the changing environmental conditions. We propose that at Farafra the emergence of backed elements was tied to the re-occupation of the region at the beginning of the Holocene (twelfth-eleventh millennia cal BP), as demonstrated by the sites discovered in the southwestern area of the modern oasis at El Qasr. The paper focuses on the Farafra Northern Plateau and its slopes between the tenth and ninth millennia cal BP, a phase following the first re-occupation of the Farafra Oasis. We examine the techno-typological characteristics of the lithic assemblages and settlement strategies during the Early Holocene: how these were shaped by seasonality and changes in climatic regimes, considerations for access to raw materials for lithic tool production, and changing subsistence. The techno-typological characteristics of several lithic assemblages in Farafra depression are examined and compared with the assemblages in other areas of the Egyptian Western Desert during the Early Holocene.
英文关键词	Farafra Oasis Western Desert Egypt Microlithic technology Settlement Technological skills
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Cyprus ; Italy ; England
收录类别	SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000539783500002
WOS关键词	ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE ; OASIS ; OCCUPATION ; SAHARA
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/318787
作者单位	1.Cyprus Inst, Nicosia, Cyprus; 2.Sapienza Univ Rome Fdn, Rome, Italy; 3.Natl Res Council Italy CNR, Inst Heritage Sci ISPC, Rome, Italy; 4.Univ Naples Orientale, Dept Asian African & Mediterranean Studies, Naples, Italy; 5.Univ Cambridge, McDonald Inst Archaeol Res, Cambridge, England; 6.ISMEO Int Assoc Mediterranean & Oriental Studies, Rome, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mutri, Giuseppina,Barich, Barbara B. E.,Lucarini, Giulio. The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (Tenth-Ninth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert[J],2020,37(3):383-411.
APA	Mutri, Giuseppina,Barich, Barbara B. E.,&Lucarini, Giulio.(2020).The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (Tenth-Ninth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert.AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW,37(3),383-411.
MLA	Mutri, Giuseppina,et al."The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (Tenth-Ninth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert".AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW 37.3(2020):383-411.