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Whispers from the desert

Predynastic rock art in wadi abu subeira (aswan, eastern desert, egypt). eastern concession

Gwenola Graff - Collection Préhistoires de la méditerranée

132 pages, parution le 04/12/2024

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Ce livre tout en anglais présente des recherches menées dans le désert oriental sur les gravures prépharaoniques du Nagada, culture connue dans la vallée du Nil par ses nécropoles, lieux de cultes et habitats. Ici, les hommes ont laissé les images de leurs activités.

This volume is the first of a collection of four presenting the results of research carried out jointly by two teams (French and Egyptian) in a dry valley situated in Egypt's Eastern desert over the last fifteen years: The wadi Abu Subeira, which opens onto the Nile valley some fifteen kilometers north of Aswan. The present study focuses more specifically on the discoveries of rock-art representations attributable to the Predynastic period, in the 4th millennium. Nearly a thousand previously unpublished panels, comprising some twenty thousand engravings, are made accessible to the reader, thus renewing our knowledge of prehistoric Egyptian imagery and, for the first time, they are integrated into a landscape perspective, within a systematically studied area of about sixty square kilometers. This enormous volume of hitherto unpublished documents allows us to enrich our knowledge of predynastic Egypt, and to reconsider the cultural, societal and environmental issues of that period. In the end, it opens up new, unexpected horizons. Indeed, by considering the establishment of the Pharaonic phenomenon and its local variations from territories as marginal as the wadi Abu Subeira, this study provides a new and broader perspective.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

I. Research framework

I. 1. Presentation of the project

I. 2. Registration methods and presentation of the catalogue

II. Predynastic engravings

II.1 Questions of chronological attribution

II.2 General spatial distribution and visibility of engravings

II.3 The themes represented: hunting, war and navigation

III. Configuration, uses of places and marking by images. The second and fifth northern diverticula of the WAS

IV. Focus on a few stations

- Locus 010

- Locus 020.B9

- Locus 048.B1.P2

- Locus 162

- Locus 230

- Locus 283.B1

- Locus 318, 406 et 435.B1.P1

- Locus 332

- Locus 346.B1.P3

- Locus 510

- Locus 543

- Military Camp N

- Military Camp O

V. Synthetic studies

V.1. Navigating the WAS

V.2. Animal representation

V.2.1. Inventory and variety

V.2.2. Elephants and giraffes: chronological, environmental and cultural markers

V.2.3. Ibex, oryx, addax, cynomolgus sheep, cuffed sheep: planting the landscape

V.2.4. Wild donkeys

V.2.5. Rare animals: birds and cats

V.2.6. Dogs, indispensable helpers

V.2.7. Domestic cattle

V.3. Human representation.

V.3.1. The bow and the archers (contribution from M. Bailly)

V.4. The iconography of Min and the predynastic archer

V.4.1. Atypical body language and postures

V.4.2. The Min mast, acrobats and rites of passage

V.5. The women

VI. Intersecting engravings in the eastern concession

VII. Relative and absolute chronology. The forbidden paradigm

VIII. Predynastics, but not Naqadans!

IX. In conclusion

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Publications de l'Université de Provence
Auteur(s)	Gwenola Graff
Collection	Préhistoires de la méditerranée
Parution	04/12/2024
Nb. de pages	132
Format	19.8 x 26
Poids	416g
EAN13	9791032005361