The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation. This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic and Roman times to the Christian period.

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• Copyright
• Editors’ Preface
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• Conference Programme
• Major Archaeological Sites in Kharga Oasis and Some Recent Discoveries by the Supreme Council of Antiquities
• Wanderers in the Desert: The North Kharga Oasis Survey’s Exploration of the Darb ‘Ain Amur
• Demotische und kursivhieratische Ostraka aus Mut al-Kharab
• Cultural Heritage Management of the Archaeological Resources of the Deserts of Egypt
• The Culture of the Oases: Late Neolithic Herders in Farafra, A Matter of Identity
• Geomatics Resources for Archaeological Survey in Desert Areas – Some Prospects from Farafra Oasis, Egypt
• Beyond the Shale: Pottery and Cultures in the Prehistory of the Egyptian Western Desert
• The Gebel Souhan Problem: Local Innovation in the Middle Stone Age?
• Early Craftsmen of the Desert. Traces of Predynastic Lithic Technology at Farafra during the Mid-Holocene
• Levallois Lithics on a Middle Stone Age Playa: Finds at Bir el-Obeiyid, Northern Farafra Depression, Egypt
• Wadi Sura and the Gilf Kebir National Park: Challenge and chance for archaeology and conservation in Egypt’s south-west
• The Khargan Industry Revisited
• Technique and Content in the Rock Art of the Libyan Fezzan: some Saharan Stereotypes
• Egyptian Connections with Dakhleh Oasis in the Early Dynastic Period to Dynasty IV: new data from Mut al-Kharab
• Epigraphic Evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Late Period
• An Old Kingdom Trading Post at ‘Ain el-Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis
• The Date of the Occupation of ‘Ain el-Gazzareen based on Ceramic Evidence
• Provisions for the Journey: Food Production in the ‘bakery’ area of ‘Ain el-Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis
• Ptolemaic Period Pottery from Mut al-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis
• An Agricultural Account from the Gemellos Archive
• Cemeteries in Dakhleh
• Amheida 2007–2009: New Results from the Excavations
• Les Nécropoles d’el-Deir (Oasis de Kharga)
• Yale University Nadura Temple Project: 2009 Season
• al-Qasr: the Roman Castrum of Dakhleh Oasis
• Five Roman-Period Tunics from Kellis
• A Remark on the Poll Tax Rate in Kysis
• Controlling the Borders of the Empire: the distribution of Late-Roman ‘forts’ in the Kharga Oasis
• Painted Surfaces on Mud Plaster and Three-Dimensional Mud Elements: The Status of Conservation Treatments and Recommendations for Continuing Research
• The Survey Project at el-Deir, Kharga Oasis: First Results, New Hypotheses
• Amheida: Architectural Conservation and Site Development, 2004–2009
• Vine and Acanthus: decorative themes in the wall-paintings of Kellis
• The Church Complex of ‘Ain el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis
• Christianity on Thoth’s Hill
• Coins as Tools for Dating the Foundation of the Large East Church at Kellis: problems and a possible solution
• The Church of Dayr Abu Matta and its Associated Structures: an overview of four seasons of excavation
• The Christian Necropolis of el-Deir in the North of Kharga Oasis
• Ceramics from ‘Ain el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis: preliminary results
• Coptic Ostraka from Qasr al-Dakhleh
• Naqlun: the Earliest Hermitages
• Contribution of Textiles as Archaeological Artefacts to the Study of the Christian Cemetery of el-Deir