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This project investigates the origins of settled farming communities in the western Nile Delta around 5,000 BC. It uses sediment analysis to understand environmental conditions and human adaptation during this transition to agriculture.
Archaeologists have long debated the origins of settled farming communities, and their appearance across the world at vastly different times, attempting to establish why and how the earliest farming settlements occur where and when they do.
This is particularly true for the western Nile Delta, the region within which this training-through-research project focusses, and where the first sedentary farming communities in Egypt appear at c. 5,000 BC, e.g. at Merimde Beni Salama (MBS).
The proposed re…
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