International Commission
of the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa
International Symposium
Desert and the Nile. Late Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara.
(Poznań, 01- 04 July, 2015)
Program
Wednesday, July 1th
9.00-9.40
Opening ceremony
Prof. Michał KOBUSIEWICZ – Chairman of the Conference
Prof. Romuald SCHILD – LPNEA Commission
Prof. Marzena SZMYT – Director of the Poznań Archaeological Museum
Prof. Jerzy MAIK – Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS
GHALIA GAR EL NABI – Director, National Museum in Khartoum
Session 1: Fayum and Dakhleh, Chairman: Rudolph Kuper
9.40-10.00
10.40-11.00
11.00-11.10
SIMON HOLDAWAY, WILLEKE WENDRICH AND REBECCA PHILLIPPS, The
desert Fayum reinvestigated: Early to mid-Holocene occupation of the Fayum North
Shore
REBECCA PHILLIPPS, REBECCA RAMSAY AND SIMON HOLDAWAY,
Palaeoenvironmental variability during the Holocene in the Fayum: a multi-scalar
approach
REBECCA PHILLIPPS AND SIMON HOLDAWAY, Settlement pattern variability in
prehistoric Fayum
JOSHUA EMMITT, Ceramic material from the Fayum North Shore
Discussion
11.10-11.30
Coffee break
11.30-11.50
12.50-13.10
NORIYUKI SHIRAI, The Desert Fayum at 80: Re-studying Gertrude CatonThompson’s Fayum lithic collection in London
FABIAN WELC AND LESZEK MARKS, Mid – late Holocene transition in North East
Africa in the light of new geoarcheological data from Fayum Oasis
MARY M. A. MCDONALD, A reassessment of the mid-Holocene Late Bashendi a
cultural unit in Dakhleh Oasis on the basis of new evidence
FRIEDERIKE JESSE, Not only an online repository – the African Archaeology
Archive Cologne (AAArC)
Discussion
13.10-14.50
Lunch break
10.00-10.20
10.20-10.40
11.50-12.10
12.10-12.30
12.30-12.50
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Session 2: Nile Delta, Chairman: Urlich Hartung
14.50-15.10
15.10-15.30
GEOFFREY TASSIE, Human Activity during the Epipalaeolithic on the Wadi Gamal
Terraces (Merimde Beni Salama), Western Delta
JOANNE MARY ROWLAND, New perspectives on the use of space in and
around the settlement at Merimde Beni Salama during the Neolithic
16.10-16.20
AGNIESZKA MĄCZYŃSKA, Origins of the Lower Egyptian culture
KARIN KINDERMANN AND HEIKO RIEMER, The lithic industry at Tell el-Fara'in
(Buto), Campaigns 2007 – 2014
Discussion
16.20-16.40
Coffee break
16.40-17.00
18.00-18.20
KRZYSZTOF CIAŁOWICZ, Results of recent excavations at the Western Kom at Tell
el-Farkha
JOANNA DĘBOWSKA-LUDWIN, Multichamber tombs from Tell el-Farkha. Does
more mean always better?
KAROLINA ROSIŃSKA-BALIK, Egyptian architecture before mud brick. Perishable
organic materials as a prelude for long lasting structures
GRZEGORZ BĄK-PRYC AND MARIUSZ A. JUCHA, The results of recent research
at the Naqada III cemetery in Tell el-Murra site (Nile Delta)
Discussion
18.30-21.30
Opening of the exhibition and Opening Party
15.30-15.50
15.50-16.10
17.00-17.20
17.20-17.40
17.40-18.00
Thursday, July 2nd
Session 3: Deserts, Chairman: Krzysztof Ciałowicz
8.40-9.00
9.00-9.20
10.20-10.30
JAN KUPER, Territorial patterns in the Epipalaeolithic of the Eastern Sahara
MARTA OSYPIŃSKA AND PIOTR OSYPIŃSKI, Neolithic cattle keepers of the
Eastern Desert. Results of the exploration at Wadi Khashab, Egypt
GIULIO LUCARINI AND ANITA RADINI, The lost crops of the Eastern Sahara. Usewear and plant residue analysis on grinding stones from the Farafra Oasis, Egypt.
ROMUALD SCHILD, A major culture change in the South Western Desert of Egypt
and the 8.2 ka event
JACEK KABACIŃSKI, AGNIESZKA CZEKAJ-ZASTAWNY AND JOEL IRISH, Burial
Grounds of Gebel Ramlah (Western Desert of Egypt)
Discussion
10.30-10.50
Coffee break
10.50-11.10
HEBAT ALLAH A. A. IBRAHIM, Neolithic aspects of the Western Desert and its
possible role during the following time periods in Egypt
MARIA CARMELA GATTO, ANTONIO CURCI, ALBERTO URCIA AND KIMBALL
BANKS, Neolithic tumuli from the desert east of Kom Ombo
MARINA GALLINARO, MAURO CREMASCHI, ANDREA ZERBONI AND SAVINO DI
LERNIA, Trapping or tethering stones? Features, distribution and potential use of the
pierres de Ben Barur in the Messak Plateau (SW Libya)
9.20-9.40
9.40-10.00
10.00-10.20
11.10-11.30
11.30-11.50
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11.50-12.10
12.10-12.30
LUISA BONGRANI, Human presence around the Wadi Hammamat in the Palaeolithic
Period.
Discussion
12.30-12.50
Coffee break
Session 4: Predynastic/Early Dynastic Egypt, Chairwomen: Joanne Mary
Rowland
12.50-13.10
13.50-14.00
ALAIN ANSELIN, Some remarkable examples of an archaeology of the images and
the words of the Egyptian world since Predynastic times to the Old Kingdom and from
a wide early pool of saharan societies which provided many of its key cultural
features
FRANCIS DAVID LANKESTER, Revisiting the 'Invincible City'
GRAZIA A. DI PIETRO, Investigating intra- and inter-site variability of Late
Predynastic settlements of Egypt
Discussion
14.00-15.40
Lunch break
15.40-16.00
16.40-16.50
TAICHI KURONUMA, Regional characteristics of the Predynastic mortuary practices
in Naqada Region. Re-analysis from the grave constructions and places of the goods
in burial
ULRICH HARTUNG, The funeral landscape of the Abydos region during the 4th
Millennium BC
DORIAN VANHULLE, Representations of boats in Egypt during the Predynastic and
Early Dynastic period: new perspectives on an old subject
Discussion
16.50-17.10
Coffee break
17.10-17.30
18.10-18.30
ROBERT KUHN, A wooden statue and early Bronze objects? A critical review of
tomb 1052 in the Necropolis of Abusir el-Meleq
WOJCIECH EJSMOND, Results of recent archaeological research at Gebelein
GAVIN KEVIN SMITH, Food and Fear – Agriculture and political manipulation in the
Nile Basin and the Sahara throughout the Fourth Millennium BCE.
Discussion
18.40-20.00
LPNEA Meeting
13.10-13.30
13.30-13.50
16.00-16.20
16.20-16.40
17.30-17.50
17.50-18.10
Poster Session, Chairman: Eliot Braun
18.40-18.50
18.50-19.00
19.00-19.10
19.10-19.20
AGNIESZKA OCHAŁ-CZARNOWICZ AND MARCIN CZARNOWICZ, Egyptian
presence at Tel Erani Area D in light of recent excavations
PIOTR KOŁODZIEJCZYK, MARCIN CZARNOWICZ AND JACEK KARMOWSKI, The
impact of Nile Delta’s landscape on the cultural diversity of the region during Pre and
Early Dynastic Period
NATALIA MAŁECKA-DROZD, The Old Kingdom upcountry settlement architecture in
the Nile Delta
MAGDALENA KAZIMIERCZAK, Meidum bowls in the Nile Delta. Some remarks from
Tell el-Murra (season 2013-2014
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19.20-19.30
19.30-19.40
19.40-19.50
JOSHUA EMMITT, REBECCA PHILLIPPS, SINA MASOUD-ANSARI, SIMON
HOLDAWAY, WILLEKE WENDRICH AND MARK GAHEGAN, Archaeological data
management in the Fayum
JORIS VAN WETERING, The Cemeteries of Nubt, Naqada Region: Cemetery T and
the other cemeteries during the Naq. II-III
LENKA SUKOVÁ, LADISLAV VARADZIN, PETR POKORNÝ, LENKA LISÁ,
Exploration of the Site of Sphinx (sbk.w-60), Jebel Sabaloka (west bank): findings of
the 2014 field campaign
Friday, July 3rd
Session 5: Interregional contacts, Chairwomen: Mary McDonald
8.40-9.00
9.00-9.20
9.20-9.40
ELIOT BRAUN, New information on chrono-cultural correlations between Maadi and
the South Levant
MARCIN CZARNOWICZ, Emerging Egyptian state and its long distance trade
relations with Near East
MAIRA TORCIA, Towards Upper Egypt: items and cultural elements on trade
routes
9.40-10.00 NEGOOD HASSAN BASHIER, Nile as the main transport artery in the ancient
Sudan
10.00-10.10
Discussion
10.10-10.30
Coffee break
Session 6: Earlier Prehistory of Egypt and Sudan, Chairman: Romuald
Schild
10.30-10.50
12.10-12.20
AHMED HAMID NASSR HMAD, Early Paleolithic stone tools variability in the Nile
basin, new investigations from the eastern desert of lower Atbara River, Sudan
MICHAŁ KOBUSIEWICZ, PRZEMYSŁAW BOBROWSKI, MAREK CHŁODNICKI,
MACIEJ JÓRDECZKA, Gebel Karaiweb (Sudan). The oldest settlement in the Red
Sea Mountains
ALICE LEPLONGEON, Lithic variability in the Late Palaeolithic of the Egyptian Nile
Valley: a new look at the Idfuan, Afian and Silsilian industries
KIMBALL M. BANKS, DONATELLA USAI, J. SIGNE SNORTLAND, LINDA SCOTTCUMMINGS AND MARIA C. GATTO, Food for Thought: The Late Paleolithic of
WK26, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt
MIROSŁAW MASOJĆ AND HENRYK PANER, New advances into the prehistory of
Bayuda desert, Sudan
Discussion
12.20-12.50
Coffee/early lunch break
12.50-13.10
YAHIA FADL TAHIR FADL, The Aterian Sites in El Ga’ab Depression in Western
Dongola Reach (Sudan)
PIOTR OSYPIŃSKI, Levallois concepts, training and lithic assemblage of Terminal
Pleistocene Affad in Sudan
MICHAEL BRASS, Jebel Moya: a pastoral mortuary complex on the southern frontier
of the Meroitic State
FRIEDERIKE JESSE, First insights into the prehistory of Selima Oasis, Northern
Sudan - Excavations at site SOP 1024
10.50-11.10
11.10-11.30
11.30-11.50
11.50-12.10
13.10-13.30
13.30-13.50
13.50-14.10
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14.10-14.30
Discussion
14.40-22.00
Excursion and bonfire
Saturday, July 4th
Session 7: Later Prehistory of Sudan, Chairwomen: Randi Haaland and
Donatella Usai
8.20-8.40
10.00-10.10
ANNETT DITTRICH, Between two rivers - early Holocene landscapes on Mograt
Island (Sudan)
HAMAD MOHAMED HAMDEEN, Plaeoenvironment and Prehistoric Cultures in El
Ga'ab Depression west Dongola (Sudan)
IKRAM MADANI AHMED, Archaeobotanical Survey in El Ga’ab Holocene Paleolake
in Northern Sudan
SANDRO SALVATORI, DONATELLA USAI, ANDREA ZERBONI, New evidence from
the prehistoric sites at al-Khiday and Al Jamrab, Central Sudan
HASSAN MUSTAFA ALKHIDIR AHMED, Neolithic in fifth Cataract area - Sudan
(Case study: Jebel Al Khazna site)
Discussion
10.10-10.30
Coffee break
10.30-10.50
LOUIS CHAIX AND JACQUES REINOLD, Animals in Neolithic graves: Kadruka and
Kadada (Northern and Central Sudan)
MACIEJ JÓRDECZKA, PRZEMYSŁAW BOBROWSKI AND IWONA SOBKOWIAKTABAKA, Khor Shambat - multicultural site and cemetery in Omdurman
PAWEL WOLF, Nile and landscape dynamics in the region of Meroe/Sudan
MAREK CHŁODNICKI, Kerma Culture in the Letti Basin (Dongola reach)
Discussion
8.40-9.00
9.00-9.20
9.20-9.40
9.40-10.00
10.50-11.10
11.10-11.30
11.30-11.50
11.50-12.00
12.00- 12.20 Coffee break
12.20-12.40
13.20-13.40
RANDI HAALAND, Meroitic civilization; the movement of craft people and symbolic
styles; Indian influence
MOHAMMED ALFATIH HAYATI, The technical characteristic of the Mesolithic
Pottery in El Quoz sites (central Sudan)
ABDELRAHIM M. KHABIR, Chemical Analysis of Prehistoric Pottery from the Central
Sudan
Discussion
13.40-15.40
Lunch break
12.40-13.00
13.00-13.20
Session 8: Rock art, Chairwomen: Karin Kindermann
15.40-16.00
16.00-16.20
16.20-16.40
MIROSLAV BÁRTA, From the desert to the Nile? Observations on some
iconographic motifs from Wadi Sura I and II in Gilf Kebir
HEIKO RIEMER, The rock art landscape of Wadi Sura, Gilf Kebir: Results from the
2009-2015 investigations
PAWEŁ POLKOWSKI, Re-thinking animals, humans and rock art in the Dakhleh
Oasis, Egypt
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16.40-17.00
17.20-17.40
ANDRÁS ZBORAY, The engravings of Jebel Uweinat. Many questions and some
answers
PRZEMYSŁAW BOBROWSKI, MICHAŁ KOBUSIEWICZ, MAREK CHŁODNICKI
AND MACIEJ JÓRDECZKA, Bir Nurayet Project (Sudan) after three seasons of
research. Results and prospects
Discussion
17.40-18.00
Coffee break
18.00-19.00
General discussion - chairman Rudolf KUPER
19.00
Closing ceremony
17.00-17.20
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