- Tytuł:
- What forced the prehistoric cattle-keepers to emigrate from the Red Sea Mountains?
- Autorzy:
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Bobrowski, P.
Jórdeczka, M.
Kobusiewicz, M.
Chłodnicki, M.
Kusiak, J. - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2027031.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2013
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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cat tle-keep ers
Red Sea Hills
Su dan
chro nol ogy of rock art - Opis:
- To day’s desert area of Red Sea Hills is now in hab ited by a Beja-Bisharin tribe, the camel breed ers. In pre his toric times, this area was in hab ited or pen e trated by pas to ral com mu ni ties en gaged in cat tle breed ing. Their oc cu pa tion is pri mar ily marked by thou sands of en grav ings with rep re sen ta tions of long-horned cat tle, which were dis cov ered in a rock art gal lery in Bir Nurayet, one of the larg est rock art gal ler ies in Af rica and the whole world. We still do not know when the shep herds and their herds aban doned the area. This is sue can be ad dressed by geoarchaeology and in ves ti ga - tion of sed i ments dis cov ered in Wadi Diib, i.e. silts. As we be lieve, they re cord cli mate and en vi ron men tal changes tak ing place in re cent mil len nia, which prob a bly to a large ex tent de ter mined the socio-cul tural pro cesses in the area.
- Źródło:
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Studia Quaternaria; 2013, 30; 135-142
1641-5558
2300-0384 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Quaternaria
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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