Fred Wendorf

Southern Methodist University

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Romuald Schild

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii

Angela E. Close

University of Washington

Hanna Więckowska

Polish Academy of Sciences

Michał Kobusiewicz

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii

Rushdi Said

United States Geological Survey

Bahay Issawi

Egyptian Museum

Wim Van Neer

Institute of Natural Sciences

Romauld Schild

University of Colorado System

C. Vance Haynes

University of Arizona

Nabil El Hadidi

Cairo University

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Polish Academy of Sciences

University of Arizona

Southern Methodist University

University of Colorado Boulder

Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals

United States Geological Survey

University of Colorado System

U.S. National Science Foundation

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii

University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Alluvial Chronology of the Tesuque Valley, New Mexico

The Journal of Geology (1958)

John P. Miller Fred Wendorf

Two Recent alluvial terraces are well developed along Rio Tesuque downstream from the limits of the Sangre de Cristo Range. The high terrace, which stands 18-20 feet above the present stream, is a prominent surface ¼-½ mile wide. The low terrace, which stands 8-10 feet above the stream, occupies a narrow strip adjacent to the channel. Charcoal from a depth of 13 feet in the high-terrace alluvium yielded a radiocarbon date of 2,230 ± 250 years. Deposition of high-terrace alluvium had ceased by A.D. 1200-1250, as indicated by the presence of datable pottery in the upper portion of the alluvium and by the dates of Pueblo sites built on the high terrace. Computations based on this chronologic information suggest that rates of sediment production during the period of high-terrace deposition were similar in magnitude to modern rates in this area.

Terrace (agriculture)

Chronology

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River terraces

10.1086/626493

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Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa

Science (1975)

Fred Wendorf Robert L. Laury Claude C. Albritton Romauld Schild C. Vance Haynes

Three potassium-argon age determinations on sanidine from crystalrich pantellerite and volcanic ash in the Main Rift Valley of central Ethiopia indicate that the Middle Stone Age of East Africa began prior to 180,000 years ago. This suggests that the technological developments which characterize the Middle Stone Age have a far greater antiquity than previously estimated.

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Sanidine

Rift valley

Middle age

Stone Age

10.1126/science.187.4178.740

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Dating lacustrine episodes in the eastern Sahara by the epimerization of isoleucine in ostrich eggshells

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (1991)

Gifford H. Miller Fred Wendorf Richard E. Ernst Romuald Schild Angela E. Close

10.1016/0031-0182(91)90043-q

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Desert Days: My Life As a Field Archaeologist

Fred Wendorf Romuald Schild

Archaeologists know that Wendorf's expeditions produced most of what we know about the stone age prehistory of northeastern Africa. They also realise that he contributed to the archaeology of the American Southwest before he focused his talents on Africa. 'Desert Days' is Fred Wendorf's memoir.

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Middle Paleolithic Lakes in the Southwestern Desert of Egypt

Springer eBooks (1993)

Romuald Schild Fred Wendorf

Chronology

Middle Paleolithic

Marine isotope stage

10.1007/978-1-4615-2908-8_3

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E-88-14: An Assemblage Associated with the Tarfawi White Lake

Springer eBooks (1993)

Angela E. Close Fred Wendorf

White (mutation)

Assemblage (archaeology)

Section (typography)

10.1007/978-1-4615-2908-8_20

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The Prehistory of the Egyptian Sahara

Science (1976)

Fred Wendorf Romuald Schild Rushdi Said C. Vance Haynes Achiel Gautier

10.1126/science.193.4248.103

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Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt:A Review Article

Journal of Field Archaeology (2004)

Romuald Schild Fred Wendorf

In 2000 Leuven University Press of Leuven, Belgium published a very important volume on the prehistory of Egypt entitled Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 2, edited by Pierre M. Vermeersch. This impressive volume presents partial results of the fieldwork of the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project of Leuven University in the Nile Valley, between Luxor and Assiut, carried out from 1976 to 1991, and in 1994. A second publication, Palaeolithic Quarrying Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt, also edited by Pierre M. Vermeersch, appeared in 2002 as the fourth volume of the series. The 2000 volume, under review here, is a collection of detailed reports on nine excavated Paleolithic living sites, ranging in time from Acheulean to Epipaleolithic, complemented by a chapter on Quaternary geomorphology and stratigraphy of the Makhadma area, near Qena, as well as a study of chronology, subsistence, and environment of the Late Paleolithic fishing sites at Makhadma. The reviewers discuss in detail most of the sites reported and address the conclusions reached by the Belgian authors in light of their own experiences with the prehistory of the Egyptian Nile. Of particular interest are differences in views concerning late use of Levallois technology in the Nile Valley and the geomorphological history of the river.

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Chronology

Middle Paleolithic

Upper Paleolithic

10.1179/jfa.2004.29.3-4.447

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Dating Pleistocene Archeological Sites by Protein Diagenesis in Ostrich Eggshell

Science (1990)

Alison S. Brooks P. E. Hare Julie E. Kokis Gifford H. Miller R. D. Ernst

Eggshells of the African ostrich (Struthio camelus), ubiquitous in archeological sites in Africa, have been shown by laboratory simulation experiments to retain their indigenous organic matrix residues during diagenesis far better than any other calcified tissue yet studied. The rate of L-isoleucine epimerization to D-alloisoleucine follows reversible first-order kinetics and has been calibrated for local temperature effects and used to estimate the age range of stratified archeological sites. Age estimates are consistent with radiocarbon dates from several stratified archeological sites. With adequate calibration, this technique can provide accurate ages to within 10 to 15 percent for strata deposited within the last 200,000 years in the tropics and the last 1,000,000 years in colder regions such as China.

Struthio

10.1126/science.248.4951.60

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The lower nile valley between 21000 and 17000-bp

Anthropologie (1990)

Fred Wendorf Ae Close Romuald Schild Hanna Więckowska A Gautier

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