Fending off the Desert Dwellers – The Gala Abu Ahmed Fortress and other fortified Places in the South Libyan Desert

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Volume 1
5. I. General
6. Introduction 1
7. Geologically Induced Raw Materials Stimulating the Development of Nubian Culture 15
8. Topography and Regional Geography of Nubia: River, Cataract and Desert Landscapes 39
9. A Short Story of Human-animal Relationships in Northern Sudan 63
10. The Archaeobotany of Nubia 83
11. The Role of Physical Anthropology in Nubian Archaeology 103
12. Languages of Ancient Nubia 129
13. II. From Palaelithicum to 2^nd Millennium BC
14. The Palaeolithic / Stone Age 155
15. The Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sudan 171
16. Eastern Saharan Prehistory during the 9^th to 5^th Millennium BC: The View from the ‘Libyan Desert’ 195
17. The Holocene Prehistory of Upper Nubia until the Rise of the Kerma Kingdom 217
18. Holocene Lithic Industries in Nubia 239
19. The Later Prehistory of Nubia in its Interregional Setting 259
20. Cultural Diversity of Nubia in the Later 3^rd–Mid 2^nd Millennium BC 293
21. Eastern Sudan in the 3^rd and 2^nd Millennia BC 335
22. Middle Kingdom Fortresses 367
23. Pharaonic Rock Inscriptions in Nubia – The 3^rd and 2^nd Millennia BC 393
24. The Religious Architecture of Kerma and Dokki Gel from the 3^rd to the 1^st Millennium BC 413
25. Settlements of the Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom 433
26. Pottery of the Middle and the New Kingdom from Lower and Upper Nubia 465
27. Nubian Leatherwork 491
28. Egyptian Temples in Nubia during the Middle and the New Kingdom 511
29. New Kingdom Tombs in Lower and Upper Nubia 541
30. Nubians in Egypt in the 3^rd and 2^nd Millennium BC 567
31. Volume 2
32. III. 1^st Millennium BC–2^nd Millennium AD
33. Settlements of the Early Kushite Period 591
34. Napatan Necropoleis and Burial Customs 621
35. The Sacred Architecture of the Napatan Period 643
36. The Cache of Dukki Gel (Pa-nebes) 667
37. Early Kushite Ceramics of the Earlier 1^st Millennium BC in Lower and Upper Nubia 675
38. Nubians in the 1^st Millennium BC in Egypt 697
39. Settlement in the Meroitic Kingdom 713
40. Tomb Architecture and Burial Custom of the Elite during the Meroitic Phase in the Kingdom of Kush 783
41. Meroitic Temples and their Decoration 811
42. Art of the Meroitic Kingdom 847
43. Ceramic Industries of Meroitic Sudan 875
44. Defending the Indefensible. Nubian Fortifications in the Middle Ages 897
45. The Sacral Architecture in the Kingdom of Makuria 921
46. Post-Meroitic Nubia 943
47. Islamic Archaeology in Nubia 965
48. IV. Surveys and Fringes
49. Archaeological Surveys at the Third, Fourth and Fifth Cataract Regions 987
50. Living and Travelling in the Bayuda: The Wadi Abu Dom 1019
51. Recent Research Work at the Western and Southern Fringes of Nubia 1029
52. Rock Art 1051
53. Fending off the Desert Dwellers – The Gala Abu Ahmed Fortress and other fortified Places in the South Libyan Desert 1069
54. Indices 1093