The Nile Basin
Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments
- Author: Martin Williams, University of Adelaide
- Date Published: January 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107179196
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The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years. However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this area are complex and often poorly understood. This comprehensive book explains in clear, non-technical terms how prehistoric environments can be reconstructed, with examples drawn from every part of the Nile Basin. Adopting a source-to-sink approach, the book integrates events in the Nile headwaters with the record from marine sediment cores in the Nile Delta and offshore. It provides a detailed record of past environmental changes throughout the Nile Basin and concludes with a review of the causes and consequences of plant and animal domestication in this region and of the various prehistoric migrations out of Africa into Eurasia and beyond. A comprehensive overview, this book is ideal for researchers in geomorphology, climatology and archaeology.
Read more- A thorough understanding of events in the Nile headwaters will allow the reader to interpret with greater clarity the work of marine geologists working on Nile deep-sea sediments
- The book will enable archaeologists to integrate their work more effectively into a broader Nile Basin context
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- Date Published: January 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107179196
- length: 420 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 178 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.98kg
- contains: 49 b/w illus. 54 maps 9 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Evolution of the Nile Basin
3. Climate and hydrology
4. Geology and soils
5. Vegetation, land use and human impact
6. The Ethiopian Highlands
7. The Ugandan Lake Plateau
8. The Sudd swamps and the White Nile
9. Lake Turkana and overflow into the Sobat
10. The Khor Abu Habl Fan and Kordofan desert dunes
11. The Gezira alluvial fan and Blue Nile palaeochannels
12. The Atbara valley
13. Jebel Marra volcano
14. The desert Nile
15. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part one
16. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part two
17. The Fayum
18. The Red Sea Hills
19. The Sinai desert
20. The Nile Delta
21. The Nile Cone
22. Origins of plant and animal domestication in the Nile Basin
23. Epilogue: 'out of Africa'
References
Index.
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