Abstract
Reconstruction of Holocene Land-Use Potential in the Egyptian Western Desert
Track: Archaeology
Author(s): Andreas Bolten, Olaf Bubenzer, Georg Bareth
For the study area in the Western Desert of Egypt, an open model is developed and applied for the derivation of Holocene land-use potential. The model contains the link of geomorphometric and other spatial data in a statistical method.
Various findings about the Holocene land-use potential of the Western Desert of Egypt could be extracted by the interdisciplinary investigation of two archaeological areas. Chronological to a hygric climate change during the Early- and Mid-Holocene (from 8.500 BC to 5.300 BC) assumes a modified land-use of the prehistoric people. The types of artifacts and their situation changed concerning to their topographic position and to the potential water resources. Therefore, the paper presents methodological approaches for interdisciplinary research projects in the context of GIS, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology.
Andreas Bolten
Department of Geography / University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Cologne , NW 50923
Germany
Phone: +49 221 470 3735
E-mail: andreas.bolten@uni-koeln.de
Olaf Bubenzer
Department of Geography
Im Neuenheimer Feld 348
Heidelberg , BW 69120
Germany
Phone: +49 6221 54 4595
E-mail: olaf.bubenzer@geog.uni-heidelberg.de
Georg Bareth
Department of Geography
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Cologne , NW 50923
Germany
Phone: +49 221 470 6552
E-mail: g.bareth@uni-koeln.de