en
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Dakhleh Oasis Project, Petroglyph Unit: seasons 2012 and 2013

2015, 24, No. 1

Paweł Polkowski

0000-0002-5364-6214

Poznań Archaeological Museum, Rock Art Unit

Poznań Archaeological Museum

Michał Kobusiewicz

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Ewa Kuciewicz

Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0009.9913

Publication date

28.02.2016

Publishing model

open access

License type

CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Humanities

Discipline

archeology

Language of publication

English

Downloads

PDF 4 MB

Article

Number of views:172

Number of downloads:25

Crossref citations:0

Altmetric score:0

Abstract

In the 2012 and 2013 seasons the Petroglyph Unit concentrated on two major assignments: first, recording rock art sites in the Central Oasis, in the area of the so-called Painted Wadi and in adjoining areas, either unexplored or only partly explored earlier, and second, locating again and documenting Winkler’s sites 66 and 67, both in the eastern part of the Oasis. These two sites are of mostly homogeneous, Neolithic origin, while rock art recorded in the Central Oasis dates from the Neolithic through very recent times.

Keywords:

rock art,petroglyph,oasis,giraffes,female figures,sandal motif,animals

Bibliography

Bednarik, R. G. (2008). Cupules. Rock Art Research, 25(1), 61–100.

James, D. (2012). Ambiguous images: The problems and possibilities of analysing rock art images in the Egyptian Western Desert. In C. M. Knoblauch and J. C. Gill (Eds.), Egyptology in Australia and New Zealand 2009: Proceedings of the Conference held in Melbourne, September 4th–6th [=BAR IS 2355] (pp. 71–84). Oxford: Archaeopress.

King, W. J. H. (1925). Mysteries of the Libyan Desert: A record of three years of exploration in the heart of that vast & waterless region. London: Seeley, Service & Co.

Krzyżaniak, L. (1990). Petroglyphs and the research on the development of the cultural attitude towards animals in the Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt). Sahara, 3, 95–97.

Krzyżaniak, L. (1994). Dakhleh Oasis. Research on rock art, 1993. PAM, 5, 97–100.

Krzyżaniak, L. (2004). Dakhleh Oasis: Research on petroglyphs, 2003. PAM, 15, 181–189.

Kuciewicz, E., Jaroni, E., and Kobusiewicz, M. (2010). Dakhleh Oasis. Petroglyph Unit. Rock art research, 2007. PAM, 19, 305–310.

Kuciewicz, E., and Kobusiewicz, M. (2012). Dakhleh Oasis Project, Petroglyph Unit: Rock art research, 2009. PAM, 21, 279–287.

Kuciewicz, E., Polkowski, P., and Kobusiewicz, M. (2014). Dakhleh Oasis Project, Petroglyph Unit: Rock art research 2011. PAM, 23/1, 229–244.

McDonald, M. M. A. (1991). Origins of the Neolithic in the Nile Valley as seen from Dakhleh Oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert. Sahara, 4, 41–52.

Polkowski, P. (2015). Meanders of interpretation: Interpreting the “meandering lines”. In J. Kabaciński, M. Chłodnicki, and M. Kobusiewicz (Eds.), Hunter-gatherers and early food producing societies in northeastern Africa [=Studies in African Archaeology 14] (pp. 297–334). Poznań: Poznań Archaeological Museum.

Polkowski, P., and Kobusiewicz, M. (2012). Badania nad sztuką naskalną w Oazie Dachla (Pustynia Zachodnia, Egipt). Stanowisko 06/09 [Research on rock art in Dakhla Oasis (Western Desert, Egypt). Site 06/09]. Fontes Archaeologici Posnanienses, 48, 237–248 [in Polish].

Polkowski, P., Kuciewicz, E., Jaroni, E., and Kobusiewicz, M. (2013). Rock art research in the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert (Egypt). Petroglyph Unit, Dakhleh Oasis Project. Sahara, 24, 101–118.

van Hoek, M. (2003). The Saharan giraffe à lien in rock art: Domesticated giraffe or rain animal? Comparing enigmatic petroglyphs from the Sahara and Namibia. Sahara, 14, 49–62.

Winkler, H. A. (1939). Rock-drawings of southern Upper Egypt II (including Uwenat): Sir Robert Mond Desert Expedition, season 1937–1938, preliminary report. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Similar publications