Holocene aridity-induced interruptions of human activity along a fluvial channel in Egypt's northern delta
Geoarchaeological information presented here pertains to a subsidiary Nile channel that once flowed west of the main Sebennitic distributary and discharged its water and sediments at Egypt’s then north-central deltaic coast. Periodical paleoclimatic episodes during the later Middle and Upper Holocen...
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ftunivwuerz:oai:opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de:25028 2023-09-05T13:21:37+02:00 Holocene aridity-induced interruptions of human activity along a fluvial channel in Egypt's northern delta Stanley, Jean-Daniel Ullmann, Tobias Lange-Athinodorou, Eva 2021 application/pdf https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25028 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250285 https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4040039 https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/25028/quaternary-04-00039.pdf eng eng https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25028 urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250285 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250285 https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4040039 https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/25028/quaternary-04-00039.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ddc:550 ddc:930 article doc-type:article 2021 ftunivwuerz https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4040039 2023-08-13T22:35:02Z Geoarchaeological information presented here pertains to a subsidiary Nile channel that once flowed west of the main Sebennitic distributary and discharged its water and sediments at Egypt’s then north-central deltaic coast. Periodical paleoclimatic episodes during the later Middle and Upper Holocene included decreased rainfall and increased aridity that reduced the Nile’s flow levels and thus likely disrupted nautical transport and anthropogenic activity along this channel. Such changes in this deltaic sector, positioned adjacent to the Levantine Basin in the Eastern Mediterranean, can be attributed to climatic shifts triggered as far as the North Atlantic to the west, and African highland source areas of the Egyptian Nile to the south. Of special interest in a study core recovered along the channel are several sediment sequences without anthropogenic material that are interbedded between strata comprising numerous potsherds. The former are interpreted here as markers of increased regional aridity and reduced Nile flow which could have periodically disrupted the regional distribution of goods and nautical activities. Such times occurred ~5000 years B.P., ~4200–4000 years B.P., ~3200–2800 years B.P., ~2300–2200 years B.P., and more recently. Periods comparable to these are also identified by altered proportions of pollen, isotopic and compositional components in different radiocarbon-dated Holocene cores recovered elsewhere in the Nile delta, the Levantine region to the east and north of Egypt, and in the Faiyum depression south of the delta. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Würzburg University: Online Publication Service Quaternary 4 4 39 |
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Geoarchaeological information presented here pertains to a subsidiary Nile channel that once flowed west of the main Sebennitic distributary and discharged its water and sediments at Egypt’s then north-central deltaic coast. Periodical paleoclimatic episodes during the later Middle and Upper Holocene included decreased rainfall and increased aridity that reduced the Nile’s flow levels and thus likely disrupted nautical transport and anthropogenic activity along this channel. Such changes in this deltaic sector, positioned adjacent to the Levantine Basin in the Eastern Mediterranean, can be attributed to climatic shifts triggered as far as the North Atlantic to the west, and African highland source areas of the Egyptian Nile to the south. Of special interest in a study core recovered along the channel are several sediment sequences without anthropogenic material that are interbedded between strata comprising numerous potsherds. The former are interpreted here as markers of increased regional aridity and reduced Nile flow which could have periodically disrupted the regional distribution of goods and nautical activities. Such times occurred ~5000 years B.P., ~4200–4000 years B.P., ~3200–2800 years B.P., ~2300–2200 years B.P., and more recently. Periods comparable to these are also identified by altered proportions of pollen, isotopic and compositional components in different radiocarbon-dated Holocene cores recovered elsewhere in the Nile delta, the Levantine region to the east and north of Egypt, and in the Faiyum depression south of the delta. |
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Holocene aridity-induced interruptions of human activity along a fluvial channel in Egypt's northern delta |
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Holocene aridity-induced interruptions of human activity along a fluvial channel in Egypt's northern delta |
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Holocene aridity-induced interruptions of human activity along a fluvial channel in Egypt's northern delta |
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