Landscape & geology, history of research, overview of the archaeology, ancient quarrying and road networks Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. & Storemyr, P. (eds.) 2007. Characterisation of complex quarry landscapes: an example from the West Bank quarries, Aswan. QuarryScapes report, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim. 275 p. PDF (20,2 MB) Ancient quarries Heldal. T. 2009. Constructing a quarry landscape from empirical data. General perspectives and a case study at the Aswan West Bank, Egypt. In: Abu-Jaber, N., Bloxam, E., Degryse, P. & Heldal, T. (eds.): QuarryScapes. Ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean, Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication 12, 125-153. PDF Habitation sites Gatto, M.C., De Dapper, M, Gerisch, R., Hart, E., Hendrickx, S., Herbich, T., Joris, H., Nordström, H-Å., Pitre, M., Roma, S., Sviech, D. & Usai, D. 2009. Predynastic settlement and cemeteries at Nag el-Qarmila, Kubbaniya. Archéo-Nil, 19, 187-206. View online at academia.edu Wendorf, F. & Schild, R., 1989. The Prehistory of Wadi Kubbaniya. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press Rock art Gatto, M.C., Hendrickx, S., Roma, S., Zampetti, D. 2009. Rock art from West Bank Aswan and Wadi Abu Subeira. Archéo-Nil 19, 151-168. View online at academia.edu Hendrickx, S., Darnell, J.C., Gatto, M.C. 2012. The earliest representations of royal power in Egypt: the rock drawings of Nag el-Hamdulab (Aswan). Antiquity, 86, 334, 1068–1083. Abstract Hendrickx, S., Gatto, M.C., 2009. A Rediscovered Late Predynastic-Early Dynastic royal scene from Gharb Aswan (Upper Egypt). Sahara 20, 147-2009. View online at academia.edu Storemyr, P., 2009. A Prehistoric Geometric Rock Art Landscape by the First Nile Cataract. Archéo-Nil, 19, 121-150. PDF (2 MB) Game traps Storemyr, P. 2011. The ancient stone-built game traps at Gharb Aswan and beyond, Lower Nubia and Upper Egypt. Sahara, 23, 15-28. PDF. With kind permission from Sahara Desert routes and standing stones Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. and Kelany, A. in press. Ancient desert and quarry roads on the West Bank of the Nile in the First Cataract Region. In; Riemer, H. and Förster, F. (eds.) Desert Road Archaeology, Cologne. Risk analysis and conservation Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E. & Heldal, T. (eds.) 2007. Risk assessment and monitoring of ancient Egyptian quarry landscapes. QuarryScapes report, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, 207 p. PDF (12,8 MB) Storemyr, P. 2009. Whatever Else Happened to the Ancient Egyptian Quarries? An Essay on Their Destiny in Modern Times. In: Abu-Jaber, N., Bloxam, E., Degryse, P. & Heldal, T. (eds.): QuarryScapes. Ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean, Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication 12, 105-124. PDF (4,1 MB) Archaeological missions at Gharb Aswan In addition to long-standing activites at the Tombs of the Nobles and former work at St. Simeon’s monastery, both on the UNESCO World Heritage List, three archaeological missions have undertaken major survey and excavation work at Gharb Aswan in recent times: The Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar Archaeological and Geological Survey. A British-Norwegian-Egyptian mission headed by Elizabeth Bloxam (University College London) and co-directed by myself. This survey focused on ancient quarries, but also included other archaeological remains. It widened the perspective to conservation, as it was integrated in the EU-funded QuarryScapes project from 2005-2006. The survey area encompassed the whole of Gharb Aswan, from The Old Aswan Dam in the south to Wadi Kubbaniya in the north, but primarily focused on the southern part. The last survey season was in 2008. The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project. An Italian-American-British mission directed by Maria Carmela Gatto at Yale University. This project has focused on the interaction between Nubian and Egyptian peoples in the Aswan region in Prehistory and particularly in the Predynastic period (4th millennium BC). It has excavated habitation and burial sites and also focused on rock art and conservation issues in the same area as the QuarryScapes project, but primarily in the northern part. Facebook page: Aswan – Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP) The Combined Prehistoric Expedition / Wadi Kubbaniya: The world-famous Palaeolithic habitation sites were surveyed and excavated by the “Combined Prehistoric Expedition” led by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild in the 1970s and 1980s. For an online overview, see Barich’s book, with references to the original work, “People, Water and Grain” (1998). A brief web presentation can be found here. The expedition has taken up research again in the area lately; Facebook page: Combined Prehistoric Expedition Previous missions Archaeological work has been carried out at Gharb Aswan for more than a century. Some of the most important are: Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman quarries at Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar: Around 1980 Rosemarie and Dietrich Klemm surveyed the Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman silicified (or quartzite) quarries in the area between Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar (published in “Steine und Steinbrüche im Alten Aegypten” 1993, English edition 2009). Rock art survey: In the 1930s Hans Alexander Winkler found an important rock art location at Gharb Aswan (site no. 53) during his surveys in Upper Egypt and the adjacent deserts. The location was published in 1938. “The Nubian Highway”: Arthur Weigall’s amusing book “Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts” includes an entertaining chapter on the desert roads leaving from Gharb Aswan (“A Nubian Highway” from 1913, re-published in 2005), but was not based on detailed survey. A starting point of the roads, the sanctuary at Gebel Tingar, has been investigated several times since then, e.g. by Horst Jaritz and Stephan Seidlmayer. Excavations by Hermann Junker: Junker excavated two multiperiod cemeteries, one reaching back to the Predynastic period, in the area by Gebel Qurna/Sheikh Mohammed in 1910-11. He also excavated a Coptic monastery built on a Ptolemaic temple in the same area (see free report of the latter excavation here). Survey in the 1890s: One of the earliest investigation was carried out as part of J. de Morgan and his collaborator’s survey of the area between Kom Ombo and Aswan,
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