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Desert boats : predynastic and pharaonic era rock-art in Egypt's Central Eastern Desert : distribution, dating and interpretation / Francis Lankester

Record no:

68883

Call no:

932 LAN

Author:

Lankester, Francis

Publisher:

Oxford: Archaeopress

Year:

2013

Series:

BAR international series ; 2544

Description:

xii, 138 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Petroglyphs - Egypt - Eastern Desert;
Rock art - Egypt;
Boats and boating - Egypt - History;
Animals in Art;
Human beings in art;

Eastern Desert - Egypt - Antiquities;

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Isbn:

9781407311647

Notes:

Modified and abridged version of: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Durham University, 2012.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

The animal, human and boat images within the geographical and chronological context in which they were created; the landscape of what is now the Central Eastern Desert, and the Naqada, Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egyptian cultures.

Contents:

1. Methodology -- 2. Environment & landscape -- 3. Animal depictions -- 4. Human figures -- 5. Boats -- 6. Distribution & regional analysis -- 7. Interpretation -- 8. Conclusion.

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