This volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997). Four abstracts from papers not submitted to the published volume are also included, as is the original conference program.
Palaeoenvironment
The Quaternary Faunas of Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt (Charles S. Churcher, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Marcia F. Wiseman and Mary M. A. McDonald)
Water in the Desert: First Report on Uranium-Series Dating of Caton-Thompson’s and Gardner’s ‘Classic’ Pleistocene Sequence at Refuf Pass, Kharga Oasis
(Maxine R. Kleindienst, Henry P. Schwarcz, Kathleen A. Nicoll, Charles S. Churcher, Jacqueline Frizano, Robert Giegengack and Marcia F. Wiseman)
Fire in the Desert: The Occurrence of a High-Ca Silicate Glass near the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Henry P. Schwarcz, Robert Szkudlarek, Maxine R. Kleindienst and Norman Evensen)
Prehistory
Preliminary Report on the Aterian at Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt (Alicia L. Hawkins)
Emerging Social Complexity in the Mid-Holocene Egyptian Western Desert: Site and its Neighbours in South-Eastern Dakhleh Oasis (Mary M. A. McDonald)
Neolithic Dental Remains from Sheikh Muftah, Dakhleh Oasis: A Preliminary Report (Jennifer L. Thompson)
Historical Archaeology
Economy and Ecology in the Kellis Agricultural Account Book (Roger S. Bagnall)
Dining in the Dakhleh Oasis: Determining Diet from Stable Isotopes (Tosha L. Dupras, Henry P. Schwarcz and Scott I. Fairgrieve)
Some Comments on Kinship Terms in the Coptic Documentary Papyri from Ismant el-Kharab (Iain Gardner)
The Archaeology of the Kellis 2 Cemetery (Peter Sheldrick)
Plant Remains from Habitation Areas at Kellis: Some Considerations concerning their Accumulation (Ursula Thanheiser and Christiane König)
Conservation
Conservation at Ismant el-Kharab: Examples of Wall Painting in Shrine I (Laurence Blondaux)
Aspects of Conservation in the Dakhleh Oasis (Anthony J. Mills)
Museology in the Oasis (Roberta Shaw)
Abstracts
Chemical Reconstruction of Principal Human Dietary Components of Ptolemaic and Early Roman Mummies from Dakhleh Oasis (Arthur C. Aufderheide, Michael Zlonis, Larry Cartmell, J. Eldon Molto and Peter Sheldrick)
Mummification Practices at Dakhleh Oasis during the Ptolemaic and Early Roman Periods (Arthur C. Aufderheide, Michael Zlonis, Larry Cartmell, J. Eldon Molto and Peter Sheldrick)
Cribra Orbitalia – Diachronic Patterns and Interpretations from ‘Ain Tirghi and Kellis Cemeteries (Scott I. Fairgrieve and J. Eldon Molto)
The Bioarchaeology of Kellis 2 with an Emphasis on Mortality and Morbidity (J. Eldon Molto)
