DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.031
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84949318877
论文题名: Human occupations and environmental changes in the Nile valley during the Holocene: The case of Kerma in Upper Nubia (northern Sudan)
作者: Honegger M. ; Williams M.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 130 起始页码: 141
结束页码: 154
语种: 英语
英文关键词: 14C chronology
; African humid period
; Aridity
; Demography
; Holocene
; Neolithic
; Nile valley
; Prehistory
Scopus关键词: Landforms
; Population dynamics
; Stratigraphy
; 14C chronology
; Aridity
; Demography
; Holocenes
; Humid periods
; Neolithic
; Nile valley
; Prehistory
; Employment
; archaeology
; aridity
; carbon isotope
; climate change
; demography
; environmental change
; evolutionary theory
; geochronology
; Holocene
; humid environment
; Neolithic
; occupation
; prehistoric
; sequence stratigraphy
; Nile Valley
; Nubia
; Sahara
; Sudan
英文摘要: Our article presents a detailed Holocene archaeological sequence from the Nile Valley at Kerma in Upper Nubia, northern Sudan. This sequence retraces the evolution of human populations thanks to the study of several sites, supported by 90 14C dates. Reconstruction of the environmental changes was supported by a study of dated stratigraphic sections located near the archaeological sites studied, and illustrates the effects on human occupation of changes in river flow and floods, which are in turn forced by climatic changes. The results shed new light on the evolutionary dynamics of the Holocene populations in Nile Valley, little known due to the numerous hiatuses in occupation. When compared with the situation in the Sahara and the rest of the Nile Valley, they confirm that the initial occupation took place ca. 10.5 kyr BP after the start of the African Humid Period, followed by a migration towards the banks of the Nile commencing 7.3 kyr BP. They also confirm the appearance of the Neolithic by ca. 8.0 kyr BP. The Kerma stratigraphic sequences show two prosperous periods (10-8 and 7-6 kyr BP) and two hiatuses in the occupation of the sites (7.5-7.1 and 6.0-5.4 kyr BP), resulting from increased aridity. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59760
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作者单位: Université de Neuchâtel, Institut d'Archéologie, Espace Paul Vouga, Hauterive, Switzerland; Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Honegger M.,Williams M.. Human occupations and environmental changes in the Nile valley during the Holocene: The case of Kerma in Upper Nubia (northern Sudan)[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,130