Egypt and Nubia : gifts of the desert

This volume originates in an international colloquium held in the British Museum in 1998. It comprises 18 papers, written by leading scholars, each of whom explores an aspect of the use and exploitation of the deserts lying to the east and west of the Nile Valley by the ancient Egyptians and their prehistoric ancestors. Exploding the myth that Egypt was simply the "Gift of the Nile", it aims to create an understanding of how the Egyptians perceived and exploited their wider environment. Routes And Roots In Egypt's Western Desert: The Early Holocene Resettlement Of The Eastern Sahara -- Implications Of Incipient Social Complexity In The Late Neolithic In The Egyptian Sahara -- Palaeo-ecologic And Palaeo-climatic Background To Socio-economic Changes In The South Western Desert Of Egypt -- Human Responses To Holocene Environmental Changes In The Northern Dongola Reach Of The Nile, Sudan -- Early And Mid-holocene Ceramics From The Dakhleh Oasis: Traditions And Influences -- Early And Mid-holocene Ceramics From The Dakhleh Oasis: Macroscopic, Petrographic And Technological Descriptions -- Another Old Kingdom Site In The Dakhleh Oasis -- Policing The Desert: Old Kingdom Activity Around The Dakhleh Oasis -- Oases Amphorae Of The New Kingdom -- Opening The Narrow Doors Of The Desert: Discoveries Of The Theban Desert Road Survey -- Gravel Of The Desert And Broken Pots In The Road: Ceramic Evidence From The Routes Between The Nile And Kharga Oasis -- A 'tasian' Tomb In Egypt's Eastern Desert -- Cosmology, Ideology And Personal Religious Practice In Ancient Egyptian Rock Art -- The Deserts And The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Upper Egyptian Nomes During The Middle Kingdom -- Ancient Gold Mining In The Eastern Desert Of Egypt And The Nubian Desert Of Sudan -- Pharaonic Stone Quarries In The Egyptian Deserts -- Life On The Edge: Gemstones, Politics And Stress In The Deserts Of Egypt And Nubia -- On The Antiquities Of The Eastern Desert. Edited By Renée Friedman. Based On An International Colloquium Held In The British Museum In 1998. Includes Bibliographical References. "Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert originates in an international colloquium of the same name held in the British Museum in 1998. It comprises eighteen papers, written by leading scholars, each of whom explores an aspect of the use and occupation of the deserts lying to the east and west of the Nile Valley by the ancient Egyptians and Nubians and their prehistoric ancestors. Exploding the old myth that Egypt was simply the 'Gift of the Nile' and illuminating the wider environment, this volume represents a new understanding of how these deserts have been perceived and exploited through time."--BOOK JACKET This book originates in an international colloquium held in the British Museum in 1998. It comprises eighteen papers, written by leading scholars, each of whom explores an aspect of the use and exploitation of the deserts lying to the east and west of the Nile Valley by the ancient Egyptians and their prehistoric ancestors. Dr Renee Friedman is Heagy Research Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum.