READ ONLY / NO DOWNLOAD The The The Desert Fayum Desert Fayum Reinvestigated Desert Fayum he Neolithic in Egypt is thought to have arrived via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia. Reinvestigated TIn this volume, the authors advocate an alter- native approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape new fieldwork in the Fayum. They present a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape using Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenviron- ment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While Reinvestigated domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced to the Fayum from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt. A landmark publication for Egyptian prehistory and for the general understand- Edited by ing of cultural and environmental change in North Africa and the Mediterranean. David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology Simon J. Holdaway UCL Institute of Archaeology and Willeke Wendrich This book results from a remarkable international collaboration that brings together archaeological and geoarchaeological data to provide a new land- scape understanding of the early to mid-Holocene in the Desert Fayum. The results are of great significance, demonstrating a distinct regional character Holdaway to the adoption of farming and substantiating the wider evidence for a polycen- tric development of the Neolithic in the Middle East. This is interdisciplinary archaeology at its best. Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor Department of Anthropology, Stanford University • Wendrich Contributors Joshua J. 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The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press specializes in producing high-quality academic volumes in nine different series, including Monumenta Archaeologica, Monographs, World Heritage and Monuments, Cotsen Advanced Seminars, and Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives. Through a generous endowment by Lloyd E. Cotsen, longtime Institute volunteer and benefactor, the Press makes the fruits of archaeological research accessible to scholars, professionals, students, and the general public. Our archaeological publications receive critical acclaim in both academic communities and the public at large. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Willeke Wendrich, Director Aaron A. Burke, Editor-in-Chief Randi Danforth, Publications Director Deidre Whitmore, Director of the Digital Archaeology Lab Editorial Board Willeke Wendrich Africa (Ex officio member) Lothar von Falkenhausen East Asia Sarah P. Morris Mediterranean Basin John K. Papadopoulos Mediterranean Basin Jeanne E. Arnold North America–Pacific Coast Gregson Schachner North America–Southwest Charles Stanish South America–Andes Richard G. Lesure South America–Mesoamerica Aaron A. Burke West Asia–Near East Randi Danforth Ex officio member Edited by Peg Goldstein Designed by Sally Boylan Cover design by Sally Boylan Index by Matthew White On front cover: Colored markers used to indicate the locations of different types of artifacts during survey in the Fayum Basin. Photograph by Joshua J. Emmitt. On back cover: View from inside one of the looting holes, while geomorphology data is being recorded. Photograph by Emily Cole. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Holdaway, Simon (Simon John), author. | Wendrich, Willeke, author. Title: The desert Fayum reinvestigated : early to mid-Holocene landscape archaeology of the Fayum north shore, Egypt / Simon J. Holdaway and Willeke Wendrich. Other titles: Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 39. Description: Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2017. | Series: Monumenta archaeologica ; volume 39 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017004635 Subjects: LCSH: Landscape archaeology--Egypt-- Fayyūm (Province) | Archaeological geology--Egypt-- Fayyūm (Province) | Fayyūm (Egypt : Province)--Antiquities. | Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt-- Fayyūm (Province) | Paleogeography--Holocene. Classification: LCC GN776.42.E3 H65 2017 | DDC 932/.011--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004635 eBook ISBN 978-1-938770-50-0 Copyright ©2017 Regents of the University of California All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America READ ONLY / NO DOWNLOAD Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Editors Biographies xv Contributors xvii Chapter 1: Landscape Archaeology of the Desert Fayum 1 Willeke Wendrich and Simon J. Holdaway Chapter 2: The Fayum in the Context of Northeast Africa 9 Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, and Willeke Wendrich Chapter 3: Approaches to Paleoenvironment and Landscape Use 17 Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Ramsay, Willeke Wendrich, and Joshua J. Emmitt Chapter 4: The L Basin Archaeological Record 51 Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, Annelies Koopman, Veerle Linseele, and Willeke Wendrich Chapter 5: The K Basin Archaeological Record 99 Willeke Wendrich, Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, and Joshua J. Emmitt Chapter 6: Kom K 165 Willeke Wendrich, Rebecca Phillipps, Simon J. Holdaway, Veerle Linseele, Joshua J. Emmitt, and John M. Marston Chapter 7: The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated: The Evidence Considered 213 Simon J. Holdaway, Willeke Wendrich, and Rebecca Phillipps Chapter 8: The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated: The Fayum in Context 233 Simon J. Holdaway, Rebecca Phillipps, and Willeke Wendrich References Cited 243 Index 257 v READ ONLY / NO DOWNLOAD READ ONLY / NO DOWNLOAD List of Figures Figure 1.1. Known archaeological sites within the Figure 3.12. Density of complete flakes, based on Fayum Depression, organized by period. high-visibility surfaces only, and the flake-to-core Figure 2.1. Conceptual model based on Smith’s (2001) ratio from these same surfaces, for corridor transects low-level food producers using mobility estimates. with sufficient artifacts to allow the calculations. Figure 3.1. Early to Middle Holocene models of lake Figure 3.13. Hearths and grindstone density (number/ level fluctuations (m asl) for Lake Qarun, the Fayum m2) located within the corridor surveys. Depression. Figure 3.14. Examples of flaked stone artifacts and a Figure 3.2. E29G1 (Z1) overlain with the digitized geo- flaked cobble from the Fayum. morphology from Wendorf and Schild (1976:Figure Figure 4.1. L1 Basin showing the location of E29H1 97) and contemporary DSM-derived 1-m contours. together with the transects surveyed, faunal collec- Figure 3.3. Ten-m, 18-m, 20-m, and 24-m contours