The Nile Basin
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The Nile Basin

Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments

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eBook - PDF

The Nile Basin

Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments

About this book

The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years. However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this area are complex and often poorly understood. This comprehensive book explains in clear, non-technical terms how prehistoric environments can be reconstructed, with examples drawn from every part of the Nile Basin. Adopting a source-to-sink approach, the book integrates events in the Nile headwaters with the record from marine sediment cores in the Nile Delta and offshore. It provides a detailed record of past environmental changes throughout the Nile Basin and concludes with a review of the causes and consequences of plant and animal domestication in this region and of the various prehistoric migrations out of Africa into Eurasia and beyond. A comprehensive overview, this book is ideal for researchers in geomorphology, climatology and archaeology.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781107179196
eBook ISBN
9781316836361
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geography
Index
Geography

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 The Nile Basin: An Introduction
  10. 2 Evolution of the Nile Basin
  11. 3 Climate and Hydrology
  12. 4 Geology and Soils
  13. 5 Vegetation, Land Use and Human Impact
  14. 6 The Ethiopian Highlands
  15. 7 The Ugandan Lake Plateau
  16. 8 The Sudd Swamps and the White Nile
  17. 9 Lake Turkana and Overflow into the Sobat
  18. 10 The Khor Abu Habl Fan and the Desert Dunes of Kordofan and Darfur
  19. 11 The Gezira Alluvial Fan and Blue Nile Palaeochannels
  20. 12 The Atbara
  21. 13 Jebel Marra Volcano
  22. 14 The Desert Nile
  23. 15 West of the Nile: The Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara – Part 1
  24. 16 West of the Nile: The Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara – Part 2
  25. 17 The Fayum
  26. 18 The Red Sea Hills
  27. 19 The Sinai Peninsula
  28. 20 The Nile Delta
  29. 21 The Nile Cone
  30. 22 Origins of Plant and Animal Domestication in the Nile Basin
  31. 23 Epilogue: ‘Out of Africa’
  32. References
  33. Index