Great Oasis Research Articles

شجرة السنط واستخداماتها فی مصر خلال العصرین البطلمی والرومانی

ملخص : يتناول هذا البحث، الحديث عن شجرة السنط النيلية، تلک الشجرة التي لها العديد من الفوائد والأهمية، والتي حظيت بالوصف عند ثيوفراستوس وبلينيوس الأکبر والطبيب ديوسکوريدس، وانشرت زراعتها في العديد من المقاطعات المصرية مثل: أرسينوي وأوکسيرنخوس وطيبة والواحة الکبرى، وذلک لاستخداماتها المتعددة، فقد استخدمت في صناعة السفن، والأثاث، وألآت الري، ومعاصر الزيوت، ودباغة الجلود، فضلا عن استخداماتها في عمل الوصقات الطبية لمعالجة بعض الأمراض، مثل أمراض العيون، وجدير بالذکر أن الوثائق البردية أمدتنا بأسعار منتجات شجرة السنط . abstract This paper talks about the Nile acacia tree, which has many benefits and importance, It has been described by Theophrastus, Pliny the Elder, and the physician Dioscorides. And spread its cultivation in many Egyptian provinces, such as: Arsinoe, Oxyhrnchus, Thebes, and the Great Oasis. And that is for its multiple ueses, it has been used in the manufacture of ships, furniture, irrigation machines, oil presses, and tanning leather, in addition to its uses in the installation of medical plasters to treat some diseases, which come in the forefront of eye diseases. It is worth noting that the papyrus documents provided us with prices for acacia tree products

Tackling the technical history of the textiles of El-Deir, Kharga Oasis, the Western Desert of Egypt

The site of El-Deir is situated north of Kharga in the “Great Oasis” of the Egyptian Western Desert (fig. 1). The site was occupied between the 6th century BC and the 6th century AD. A complex history emerged with the influence of many cultures: Persian, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Archaeological finds in both El-Deir and the oasis itself (the site of Dush and the temple of Darius in Hibis, a city north of Kharga) confirm that the Great Oasis was a wealthy region. This is also substantiated by texts from Ain Manawir and Dakhleh. The presence of an artesian aquifer, a great economic asset, further underpinned the prosperity of the area, which was a crossroads for numerous routes from the earliest dynasties.

Book Review: The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P. Nekr.)

Book Review: The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P. Nekr.)

Damien Agut-Labordère. “Oil and wine for silver? The economic agency of the Egyptian peasant communities in the Great Oasis during the Persian Period”

Les plus anciennes attestations ecrites en Egypte des stateres d’argent dans la documentation demotique d’ʿAyn Manāwir (412-410 av. J.-C.), mene l’auteur a s’interroger dans cet article sur les dynamiques economiques de l’oasis de Kharga a l’epoque perse. La position de la communaute oasienne dans les eventuels reseaux d’echanges monetaires avec la Vallee du Nil est ici evaluee a travers la capacite d’exportation des produits locaux. Dans ce sens, l’A. rappelle les contenants en ceramique (en...

Frontiers and Borderlands in Imperial Perspectives: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier

Archaeological research has addressed imperial frontiers for more than a century. Romanists, in particular, have engaged in exploring frontiers from economic, militaristic, political, and (more recently) social vantages. This article suggests that we also consider the dialogue between space and social perception to understand imperial borderland developments. In addition to formulating new theoretical approaches to frontiers, this contribution represents the first comprehensive overview of both the documentary sources and the archaeological material found in Egypt's Great Oasis during the Roman period (ca. 30 B.C.E. to the sixth century C.E.). A holistic analysis of these sources reveals that Egypt's Great Oasis, which consisted of two separate but linked oases, served as a conceptual, physical, and human buffer zone for the Roman empire. This buffer zone protected the ordered Nile Valley inhabitants from the chaotic desert nomads, who lived just beyond the oases. This conclusion suggests that nomads required specific imperial frontier policies and that these policies may have been ideological as well as economic and militaristic.

Guy Mountfort, 1905–2003

Guy Mountfort, 1905–2003

Draining the Great Oasis: An Environmental History of Murray County, Minnesota. Edited by Anthony J. Amato, Janet Timmerman, and Joseph A. Amato. Marshall, Minn.: Crossings Press. 2001. xix + 232 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, bibliography. Cloth $25.00, paper $15.00

<i>Draining the Great Oasis: An Environmental History of Murray County, Minnesota.</i> Edited by Anthony J. Amato, Janet Timmerman, and Joseph A. Amato. Marshall, Minn.: Crossings Press. 2001. xix + 232 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, bibliography. Cloth $25.00, paper $15.00

FIELD SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES

Anthropology NewsVolume 42, Issue 5 p. 36-36 FIELD SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES Archaeology at Maxwell Great Oasis, Iowa First published: 07 July 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.2001.42.5.36.2AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume42, Issue5May 2001Pages 36-36 RelatedInformation

Économie et société de l’Égypte romano-byzantine (IVe-VIIe siècles). À propos de quelques publications récentes

The author presents a critical overview of recent publications which bring forward both new documents and new discussions on the economic and social development of Roman and Byzantine Egypt. The agricultural accounts from Kellis modify our view of the Egyptian rural economy, and the dominant role traditionally attributed to the 'great estates'. They raise the issue of the abandonment of agricultural activity in the southern quarter of the Great Oasis, which is also the subject of an archaeo-ecological study by Bernard Bousquet at the site of Douch. Even in areas so close in place and time, the causes of abandonment may yet have been different. The reconsideration of the role of money in the late antique economy, and the reaction against the 19th century models of a 'natural economy' are reinforced, with regard to salaries, by the study by Francesco Morelli, of allocations of oil. On the question of professional 'corporations', as well as the issue of curiales, several historians have tackled the contradiction between the impressions given by the legal sources and by the papyrus documents, even when they are describing the same situation; this invites us to reconsider the ways in which these different kinds of source should be used, with more attention to their particular nature, and a more cautious approach to establishing their relationship to one another. [Author, translated by Charlotte Roueché]

A Grass Rope Ware Vessel and Associated Artifacts from the Central Des Moines River Valley, Iowa

Iowa State University Archaeological Laboratory excavations at the Blosser site (13BN125) in 1969 uncovered six burial features containing artifacts that are unusual for the overall specimen inventory from the central Des Moines River Valley. These include a Grass Rope Ware vessel, two pieces of modified bison scapula, and a small celt. The bison scapula fragments are interpreted as the remains of a hoe and possibly fragments of knives or scrapers. A rim sherdfrom a Twelve Mile Incurved Rim bowl and three fragmentary pieces of decorative shell were recovered from a plow zone context, but were probably associated with the burials. It is suggested that all of these artifacts are associated with the Great Oasis occupation of the central Des Moines River Valley and date to ca. AD 1000. This represents one of the few instances, other than mixed components, in which materials from Initial Variant Middle Missouri Tradition sites have been recovered from a Great Oasis site. The fragment of bison scapula identified as a hoe lends support to the contention that the Great Oasis populations occupying the central Des Moines River Valley were practicing horticulture.

The Randall Phase Component at the Dirt Lodge Village Site9 Spink County, South Dakota: Late Woodland/Early Plains Village Transitions on the Northeastern Plains

Res. d'A. The Randall phase dates to about AD 1150 and represents a regional Late Woodland cultural expression in the Southern portion of the Northeastern Plains. It shows similarities to Great Oasis and Initial Middle Missouri variant sites of the Plain Village tradition. Data from the Late Plain Woodland component at the Dirt Lodge Village site (39SP11) are used to define Randall phase. The Rose Hill Village site (39HD4), the Wolf Creek Mounds site (39HT30), and the Randall phase component at the Scalp Creek site (39GR1) all appear to be assignable to the Randall phase

Figures of Silence in the Orlando Furioso

It may seem surprising, or even paradoxical, that one should dwell on subject such as silence in poem in which noise has always been underlined. To quote only from two relatively recent studies: The Orlando Furioso is certainly noisy poem, begins 1988 article by James W. Mirollo which bears the title the Significant Acoustics of Ariosto's Noisy Poem;l and C. P. Brand, some fifteen years ago, wrote in fine book of his on Ariosto: How noisy that sylvan paradise must have been with those mountains of armour and muscle forcing their way through the undergrowth!2 On the other hand it is well known that, almost in opposition to all this noise, an island of silence, a great oasis of silence and oblivion, to use Attilio Momigliano's words, is found explicitly described towards the middle of the poem. I am thinking of course of the brief allegory of silence in canto XIV, of which the same Momigliano emphasized the musical malice.3 Actually it could be interesting to analyse the ambiguous valorization of the noise/silence opposi-

Reserve for Arabian Oryx

The wildlife of the Jordanian deserts was shot out in the 1950s. As a first step towards restoring it, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature in Jordan has set up a captive breeding unit at its Shaumari Reserve, eight miles from the great oasis of Azraq. Though the first occupants are likely to be gazelles, by the time this issue appears there may well be four male Arabian oryx also. These, the foundation of what it is hoped will be the first captive herd of Arabian oryx in Arabia deriving from Operation Oryx, have been presented to Jordan by the Trustees of the World Herd of Arabian Oryx, now located at Phoenix and San Diego Zoos in the USA. There are a number of other captive herds of local origin already in the Arabian peninsula, including the well known one in Qatar.

Decorative Motifs On Great Oasis Pottery

Decorative design motifs on Great Oasis Incised rim sherds from the Great Oasis site in Minnesota are illustrated and described. The usefulness of using decorative modes in ceramic comparisons with pottery of the Over focus is suggested.

Three Village Sites of the Mississippi Pattern in Minnesota

The Late prehistoric cultural manifestations of Minnesota are so dominantly of the Woodland pattern that manifestations of the Mississippi pattern have not received much attention in published reports. Prior to 1940, components of the Orr and Blue Earth foci of the Oneota aspect had been recognized in Minnesota, and some sites of each focus had been studied. Since that time, two additional complexes, which I am ascribing to the Mississippi pattern and have named the Cambria aspect and the Great Oasis aspect, respectively, have been discovered. The Minnesota sites, together with the Brandon site in southeastern South Dakota reported by Over and Meleen8 and the Mill Creek sites in northwestern Iowa studied by Charles R. Keyes, make an important contribution to our knowledge of the Mississippi pattern in the area near the meeting point of these three states.

The Indian Country of Southern Arizona

IN Arizona, as in no other of our states, the Indian has maintained his hold upon the land. In numbers of pure-blooded Indians the state leads with over 46,ooo of the nation's 355,000,1 while over considerable parts of the area primitive cultures hold sway. The white population has infiltered itself into the region on a pattern largely indicative of the areas and zones originally tinoccupied or of sparsest Indian population. Only the barren desert wastes immediately to the east of the lower Colorado River have been shunned by both Indian and white. Phoenix, the present metropolis, with the great oasis lying about it is contiguous with the relatively closely knit Pima communities but occupies the lands upon which the Indians were unable to apply water. Tucson, the second largest city and earlier metropolis, occupied a zone between Papagos and Apaches-a part of the Papago territory untenable on account of Apache raids. In northern Arizona the important settlements have grown up along the Santa Fe Railway which succeeded the old Santa Fe trail, proceeding in part through a neutral zone between hostile Apaches to the south and Navajos to the north. The Indian population of Arizona remains distributed much as it was before white settlement. The present day reservations include the most important areas of Indian occupation, though considerably restricted, especially in the case of the hostile Apaches and Mojave Apaches. For convenience of treatment the Indians of Arizona may be divided into two groups: the southern tribes who occupy the drainage basin of the lower Colorado River and chiefly that of its one important branch, the Gila, and the northern tribes who occupy the drainage basin of the middle Colorado and its chief branch, the Little Colorado. This article aims to give a sketch of the southern group of tribes.