Re: "Nile and geology" (Jan 8, 2001)
From: Leslie E. Bailey (le-bailey-11@alumni.uchicago.edu)
Small literature list for those interested in the geography of the Nile valley and in Egypt's geology and ecology in general.
Baer, Klaus. 1962. "The Low Price of Land in Ancient Egypt." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 1: 25-45. __________. 1971. "Land and Water in Ancient Egypt." Paper presented to the 28th Inter national Congress of Orientalists. Special Congress Seminar A: Irrigation Civilizations, January 1971, Canberra. International Congress of Orientalists. Baines, John and Jaromír Málek. 1980. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File. Bard, Kathryn, editor and compiler. 1999. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge. Bell, Barbara. 1970. "The Oldest Records of the Nile Floods." The Geographical Journal 136: 569-73. __________. 1971. "The Dark Ages in Ancient History: The First Dark Age in Egypt." American Journal of Archaeology 75: 1-26. __________. 1975. "Climate and the History of Egypt: The Middle Kingdom." American Journal of Archaeology 79: 223-69. Brown, A. G. 1997. Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Butzer, Karl W. 1959a. "Environment and Human Ecology in Egypt during Predynastic and Early Dynastic Times." Bulletin de la Société de Géographie d'Égypte 32: 43-88. __________. 1959b. "Some Recent Geological Deposits in the Egyptian Nile Valley." The Geographical Journal 125: 75-79. __________. 1960a. "Remarks on the Geography of Settlement in the Nile Valley during Hellenistic Times." Bulletin de la Société de Géographie d'Égypte 33: 1-35. __________. 1960b. "Archeology and Geology in Ancient Egypt: Geomorphological Analysis Permits Reconstruction of the Geography of Prehistoric Settlement." Science 132: 1617-24. __________. 1976. Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. __________. 1978. "The People of the River." In Ancient Egypt: Discovering its Splendors. Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society. __________. 1980. "Civilizations: Organisms or Systems?" American Scientist 68: 517-23. __________. 1982. Archaeology as Human Ecology: Method and Theory for a Contextual Approach. New York: Cambridge University Press. __________. 1984. "Long-Term Nile Flood Variations and Political Discontinuities in Pharaonic Egypt." In From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa, edited by J. Desmond Clark and Steven A. Brandt. Berkeley: University of California Press. __________. 1990. "The Realm of Cultural-Human Ecology: Adaptation and Change in Historical Perspective." In The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years, edited by B. L. Turner II, et. al. New York: Cambridge University Press. __________. 1995. "Environmental Change in the Near East and Human Impact on the Land." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack Sasson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. __________. 1996. "Irrigation, Raised Fields, and State Management: Wittfogel Redux?" Antiquity 70: 200-04. __________. 1997. "Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East c. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt." In Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, edited by H. Nüzhet Dalfes, George Kukla, and Harvey Weiss. New York: Springer. __________. 1998. "Late Quaternary Problems of the Egyptian Nile: Stratigraphy, Environments and Prehistory." Paléorient 23/2: 151-73. Connor, Douglas R. and Anthony E. Marks. 1986. "The Terminal Pleistocene on the Nile: The Final Nilotic Adjustment." In The End of the Paleolithic in the Old World, edited by Lawrence Guy Straus. BAR International Series 284. Coutellier, Vincent and Daniel Jean Stanley. 1987. "Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Paleo-Geography of the Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt." Marine Geology 77: 257-75. Crumley, Carole L., editor. 1994. Historical Ecology: Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. Eyre, Christopher J. 1995. "The Agricultural Cycle, Farming, and Water Management in the Ancient Near East." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack Sasson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Grove, A. T. 1993. "Africa's Climate in the Holocene." In The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns edited by Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair, Bassey Andah, and Alex Okpoko. New York: Routledge. Hassan, Fekri A. 1981. "Historical Nile Floods and Their Implications for Climatic Change." Science 212: 1142-45. __________. 1984. "Environment and Subsistence in Predynastic Egypt." In From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa, edited by J. Desmond Clark and Steven A. Brandt. Berkeley: University of California Press. __________. 1986. "Holocene Lakes and Prehistoric Settlements of the Western Faiyum, Egypt." Journal of Archaeological Science 13:483-501. __________. 1993. "Town and Village in Ancient Egypt: Ecology, Society, and Urbanization." In The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns edited by Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair, Bassey Andah, and Alex Okpoko. New York: Routledge. __________. 1997. "Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt." In Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, edited by H. Nüzhet Dalfes, George Kukla, and Harvey Weiss. New York: Springer. Hassan, Fekri A. and G. Timothy Gross. 1987. "Resources and Subsistence during the Early Holocene at Siwa Oasis, Northern Egypt." Prehistory of Arid North Africa: Essays in Honor of Fred Wendorf, edited by Angela E. Close. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press. Hassan, Fekri A. and Barbara R. Stucki. 1987. "Nile Floods and Climatic Change." In Climate: History, Periodicity, and Predictability, edited by Michael R. Rampino, John E. Sanders, Walter S. Newman and L. K. Königsson. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. Hayes, T. R. 1984. "A Reappraisal of the Egyptian Predynastic." In From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa, edited by J. Desmond Clark and Steven A. Brandt. Berkeley: University of California Press. Hoffman, Michael A. 1988. "Before the Pharaohs: How Egypt Became the World's First Nation-State." The Sciences January/February 1988: 40-7. __________. 1991. Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization. Revised edition. Austin: University of Texas Press. Howell, P. P. and J. A. Allan, editors. 1994. The Nile: Sharing a Scarce Resource. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kees, Hermann. 1961. Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography. Translated by Ian F. D. Morrow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kemp, Barry J. 1989. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. New York: Routledge. Krzyzaniak, Lech and Michal Kobusiewicz, editors. 1989. Late Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara. Studies in African Archaeology Vol. 2. Poznan: Poznan Archaeological Museum. Krzyzaniak, Lech, Michal Kobusiewicz, and John Alexander, editors. 1993. Environmental Change and Human Culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until the Second Millennium B.C. Studies in African Archaeology Vol. 4. Poznan: Poznan Archaeological Museum. Murray, G. W. 1951. "The Egyptian Climate: An Historical Outline." The Geographical Journal 117: 422-34. __________. 1955. "Water from the Desert: Some Ancient Egyptian Achievements." The Geographical Journal 121: 171-81. O'Connor, David. 1972. "A Regional Population in Egypt to circa 600 B.C." In Population Growth: Anthropological Implications, edited Brian Spooner. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. __________. 1974. "Political Systems and Archaeological Data in Egypt." World Archaeology 6:15-38. __________. 1993. "Urbanism in Bronze Age Egypt and Northeast Africa." In The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns edited by Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair, Bassey Andah, and Alex Okpoko. New York: Routledge. Paulissen, Etienne and Pierre M. Vermeersch. 1987. "Earth, Man and Climate in the Egyptian Nile Valley during the Pleistocene." In Prehistory of Arid North Africa: Essays in Honor of Fred Wendorf, edited by Angela E. Close. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press. Raikes, R. L. and A. Palmiere. 1972. "Environmental Conditions in the Nile Valley over the Past 10,000 Years." Journal of Human Evolution 1: 147-54. Said, Rushdi, editor. 1990. The Geology of Egypt. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. __________. 1993. The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology, and Utilization. New York: Pergamon Press. Schild, Romuald. 1987. "Unchanging Contrast? The Late Pleistocene Nile and Eastern Sahara." In Prehistory of Arid North Africa: Essays in Honor of Fred Wendorf, edited by Angela E. Close. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press. Sestini, G. 1992. "Implications of Climatic Changes for the Nile Delta." In Climatic Change and the Mediterranean, edited by L. Jeftic, J. D. Milliman, and G. Sestini. New York: Edward Arnold. Stanley, Daniel Jean. 1988. "Subsidence in the Northeastern Nile Delta: Rapid Rates, Possible Causes, and Consequences." Science 240: 497-500. Stanley, Daniel Jean and Andrew G. Warne. 1993a. "Sea Level and Initiation of Predynastic Culture in the Nile Delta." Nature 363: 435-38. __________. 1993b. "Nile Delta: Recent Geological Evolution and Human Impact." Science 260: 628-34. Strudwick, Nigel. 1995. "The Population of Thebes in the New Kingdom: Some Preliminary Thoughts." In Thebanische Beamtennekropolen: Neue Perspektiven archäologischer Forschung Internationales Symposion Heidelberg 9. 13.6 1993, edited by J. Assmann, E. Dziobek, H. Guksch, and F. Kampp. Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptiens, Vol. 12. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag. Trigger, B. G., B. J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, and A. B. Lloyd. 1983. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. New York: Cambridge University Press. Wendorf, Fred, Romuald Schild, and Bahay Issawi. 1976. Prehistory of the Nile Valley. New York: Academic Press. Wetterstrom, Wilma. 1993. "Foraging and Farming in Egypt: The Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Horticulture in the Nile Valley." In The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns edited by Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair, Bassey Andah, and Alex Okpoko. New York: Routledge. Whitmore, Thomas M., B. L. Turner II, Douglas L. Johnson, Robert W. Kates, and Thomas R. Gottschang. 1990. "Long-Term Population Change." In The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years, edited by B. L. Turner II, et. al. New York: Cambridge University Press. Willcocks, W. 1899. Egyptian Irrigation. New York: Spon and Chamberlain. Williams, Martin A. J. and Hugues Faure. 1980. The Sahara and the Nile: Quaternary Environments and Prehistoric Occupation in Northern Africa. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. Williams, Martin A. J. and D. A. Adamson, editors. 1982. A Land between Two Niles: Quaternary Geology and Biology of the Central Sudan. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema.