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6. Selected bibliography

Quarryscapes reports

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Deliverable No 1, Work Package 1: Landscape and provenance and conservation of stone sources from selected archaeological sites in Jordan, 175 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-26-0 Edited by: Nizar Abu-Jaber and Ziad Al Saad Authors: Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad Al Saad, Mohammed Al Qudah, Nihad Smadi and Abeer Al Zoubi.

Deliverable No 2, Work Package 2: Inventory of Ancient quarry landscapes in Turkey: their characteristics, production and state of conservation. 29 pp, Edited by: Emine Caner Saltik. Authors: Emine N. Caner-Saltık, K. Göze Akoğlu, Evin Caner-Özler, Kemal Erdoğan, Alp Güney, Sinan Sülüner, Tamer Topal, Ayşe Tavukçuoğlu, V. Toprak, A.G. Turkmenoglu, M. C. Ustunkaya Taliye Yaşar.

Deliverable No 3, Work Package 3: The Sagalassos quarry landscape: bringing quarries in context, 84 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-122-2 Edited by: Patrick Degryse Authors: Patrick Degryse, Tom Heldal, Elizabeth Bloxam, Per Storemyr, Marc Waelkens, E. Trogh, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Jeroen Poblome, Philippe Muchez.

Deliverable No 4, Work Package 4: Characterisation of complex quarry landscapes; an example from the West Bank Quarries, Aswan. 275 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-118-4. Edited by: Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Per Storemyr. Authors: Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Per Storemyr, Adel Kelany, Patrick Degryse, Reidulv Bøe, Axel Müller.

Deliverable No 5, Work Package 4: The assessment of significance of ancient quarry landscapes - problems and possible solutions. The case of the Aswan West Bank. 26 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-119-2. Author: Elizabeth Bloxam.

Deliverable No 6, Work Package 5: Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Ancient Egyptian Quarry Landscapes, 207 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-125-3 Editors: Per Storemyr, Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal Authors: Per Storemyr, Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Adel Kelany, James A. Harrell, Rawda Yousri, El Shaimaa Fathy.

Deliverable No 7, Work Package 6: Site Management Concepts for Widan el Faras, Northern Fayoum, Egypt. 40 pp + appendices, ISBN 978-82-7385-135-4 Prepared by NSCE with the close collaboration with Naguib Amin.

Deliverable No 8, Work Package 7: GIS Products for Management of Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes: three Egyptian Site Maps, 20 pp and 7 maps, ISBN 978-82-7385-123-9 Edited by: Naguib Amin, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser Authors: Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rabab Abd-el-Kader, Rawda Yosuri, Sara Kayser.

Deliverable No 9, Work Package 7: Map of Ancient Egyptian Stone Quarries, 26 pp /6 maps, ISBN 978-82-7385-133-8 Edited by: Naguib Amin, Azza Shawarby, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser Authors: Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser.

Deliverable No 10, Work Package 8: Identifying heritage values and character-defining elements of ancient quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: an integrated analysis. 161 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-134-6 Authors: Elizabeth Bloxam and Tom Heldal. Contributions from: Turkey: Emine N. Caner-Saltık, K. Göze Akoğlu, Evin Caner-Özler, Kemal Erdoğan,Alp Güney, Sinan Sülüner, Tamer Topal, Ayşe Tavukçuoğlu, V. Toprak, A.G.Turkmenoglu, M. C. Ustunkaya Taliye Yaşar Jordan: Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad Al Saad, Mohammed Al Qudah, Nihad Smadi and Abeer Al Zoubi Egypt: Naguib Amin, Adel Kelany, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser, Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rabab Abd-el-Kader Belgium: Patrick Degryse, Marc Waelkens, E. Trogh, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Jeroen Poblome, Philippe Muchez Norway: Per Storemyr, Reidulv Bøe, Axel Müller Italy: Lorenzo Lazzarini.

ASMOSIA proceedings

ASMOSIA (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones In Antiquity; www.asmosia.org ) organizes bi-annual symposiums on ancient quarries and stone characterisation. So far, 6 volumes have been published;

N. Herz and M. Waelkens (eds.), 1988, Classical Marble: Geochemistry, Technology, Trade; Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht, Boston) and NATO ASI Series E, Applied Sciences, Vol. 153, ASMOSIA I PROCEEDINGS

M. Waelkens, N. Herz and L. Moens (eds.), 1992, Ancient Stones: Quarrying, Trade and Provenance – Interdisciplinary Studies on Stones and Stone Technology in Europe and Near East from the Prehistoric to the Early Christian Period; Leuven University Press (Leuven) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia, Monographiae 4, ASMOSIA II PROCEEDINGS

Y. Maniatis, N. Herz and Y. Basiakos (eds.), 1995, The Study of Marble and Other Stones Used in Antiquity; Archetype Publications (London), ASMOSIA III PROCEEDINGS

M. Schvoerer (ed.), 1999, Archéomatéiaux – Marbres et Autres Roches. Actes de la IVème Conférence Internationale de l'Association pour l'Étude des Marbres et Autres Roches Utilisés dans le Passé; Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l'Archéologie and Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux (Bordeaux-Talence), ASMOSIA IV PROCEEDINGS

J. Herrmann, N. Herz and R. Newman (eds.), 2002, ASMOSIA 5, Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone – Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1998; Archetype Publications (London), ASMOSIA V PROCEEDINGS.

L. Lazzarini (ed.), 2002, Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone – ASMOSIA VI, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Venice, June 15-18, 2000; Bottega d'Erasmo Aldo Ausilio Editore (Padova), ASMOSIA VI PROCEEDINGS.

Other publications

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Adams, C.E.P. 2001. Who bore the burden? The organization of stone transport in Roman Egypt, in: D.J. Mattingly and J. Salmon (eds) Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society, 9), London - New York: 171-192.

Aplin, G. 2002. Heritage: Identification, Conservation and Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Arnold, D. 1993: Building in Egypt: Pharaonic stone masonry. Oxford University Press.

Ashmore, W and Knapp, A. B. (eds) 1999.  Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Aston B., Harrell J. A. and Shaw I. 2000. Stone. In: Nicholson P. T. and Shaw I. (eds). Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology. Cambridge University Press, 5-77

Attanasio D., Brilli M. and Ogle N. 2006. The isotopic signature of classical marbles. “L’ERMA” di Bretschneider, 297 pp

Barrett, J. C. 1999. Chronologies of landscape.  In P. Ucko and R. Layton (eds) The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape:  shaping your landscape. (One World Archaeology) London: Routledge, pp. 21-30.

Bessac, J. C. 1996. La pierre en Gaule Narbonnaise et les carrières du Bois des Lens (Nîmes) : Histoire, archéologie, ethnographie et techniques. Ann Arbor (Michigan), 1996, 333 p. (Suppl. 16 au Journal of Roman Archaeology).

Bevan, A. H. 2001. Value Regimes in the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age: a study through stone vessels. (Unpublished PhD dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

Bloxam, E.  and Heldal, T.  2007. The Industrial Landscape of The Northern Faiyum Desert as a World Heritage Site: Modelling ‘Outstanding Universal Value’ of 3rd Millennium BC Stone Quarrying in Egypt’  World Archaeology 39, 3, pp. 305-323.

Bloxam, E. 2000.  Transportation of Quarried Hard Stone from  Lower Nubia to Giza during the Egyptain Old Kingdom. British Archaeological Reports International Series 909, pp. 19-27

Bloxam, E. 2003. The Organisation, Transportation and Logistics of Hard Stone Quarrying in the Egyptian Old Kingdom: A Comparative Study. PhD dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Bloxam, E. 2006. Miners and Mistresses: Middle Kingdom mining on the margins. Journal of Social Archaeology, 6, 2, pp. 277-303.

Bloxam, E. 2007a.  Who were the pharaohs’ quarrymen? Archaeology International, 9, pp. 23-7.

Bloxam, E. and Storemyr, P 2002. Old Kingdom Basalt Quarrying Activities at Widan el-Faras, Northern Faiyum DesertJournal of Egyptian archaeology 88, pp. 23-36.

Bloxam, E.G. 2005. The Organisation and Mobilisation of Old Kingdom Quarry Labour Forces at Chephren’s Quarry (Gebel el-Asr) Lower Nubia.  In A. Cooke and F. Simpson (eds) Current Research in Egyptology II. BAR International Series 1380 Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 11-19.

Bradley, R. 2000.  An Archaeology of Natural Places.  London: Routledge.

Bradley, R. and Edmonds, M. 1993 Interpreting the Axe Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brand, P. J. 2000. The Monuments of Seti I Epigraphic, Historical & Art Historical Analysis. Leiden: Brill.

Caton-Thompson, G.  and Gardner, E. W. 1934  The Desert Fayum. Vols I and II London: The Royal Anthropological Institute.

Clarke, S. and Engelbach, R. 1930: Ancient Egyptian masonry. The building craft. Oxford University Press

Cleere, H. 1996. The Concept of ‘outstanding universal value’ in the World Heritage Convention. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 1: 227-33.

Cooney, G. 1998. Breaking stones, making places: the social landscape of axe production sites. In A. Gibson and D. Simpson (eds) Prehistoric Ritual and Religion. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, pp. 108-18.

Cooney, G. 1999. Social landscapes in Irish prehistory. In P. Ucko and R. Layton (eds) The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape:  shaping your landscape. (One World Archaeology) London: Routledge, pp. 46-64.

Council of Europe 2000. European Landscape Convention, Florence, European Treaty Series – No. 176; www.coe.int/T/Ecultural -co-operation/Environment/-Landscape

Couyat, J.  and Montet, P.  1912.  Les Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât. Le Caire: Imprimerie de L’Institut Français et Archaéologie Orientale.

Edmonds, M. 1999. Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic: Landscapes, Monuments and Memory. London: Routledge.

Engelbach, R.  1938. The Quarries of the Western Nubian Desert and the Ancient Road to Tushka. Annales du Service des Antiquitiés de l’Egypt 38, pp. 369-390.

Engelbach, R. 1933. The Quarries of the Western Nubian Desert. A Preliminary Report.  Annales du Service des Antiquitiés de l’Egypt 33, pp. 65-80.

Fairclough, G. 2008. New Heritage, an Introductory Essay  - People, Landscape and Change. In G. Fairclough, R. Harrison, J. H. Jameson Jnr., and J. Schofied (eds) The Heritage Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 297-312.

Fowler, P. 2004. Landscapes for the World: conserving a global heritage. Macclesfield: Windgather Press Ltd.

Gillespie, M. R. and Styles, M. T. 1999. BGS Rock Classification scheme, Vol. 1, Classification of Igneous rocks. British Geological Survey Research Report, (2nd edition), RR99-06

Goyon, G.  1957 Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Wadi Hammamat. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Librairie D’Amérique et D’Orient Adrien-Maisonneuve.

Grenne T., Heldal T., Meyer G. B. And Bloxam E. 2008. From Hyllestad to Selbu: Norwegian millstone quarrying though 1300 years. In: Slagstad T. (ed). Geology for Society, Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication 11, 47-66

Grzymski, K. 2004. ‘Landscape Archaeology of Nubia and Central Sudan’. African Archaeological Review Vol 21 1: 7-30.

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Harrell, J. A. 2002. Pharaonic Stone Quarries in the Egyptian Deserts’. In R. Friedman (ed) Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert. London: British Museum Press, pp. 232-43

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Heldal, T.  Bloxam, E.  Storemyr, P. and Kelany, A  2005. The Geology and Archaeology of the Ancient Silicified Sandstone Quarries At Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar, Aswan, Egypt. Marmora: International Journal for Archaeology, History and Archaeometry of Marbles and Stones 1, pp. 11-35.

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NEWS
December 2009
New book: a special volume with papers from the QuarryScapes project soon printed.
November 2008
Final workshop: the third QuarryScapes workshop was held in Aswan 12. - 15. October
June 2008
Final Reports: available for download
June 2008
More Palaeolithic quarries in Aswan Recent visits to the Aswan West Bank in Egypt have added new discoveries...

April 2008
QuarryScapes third workshop Aswan, October 12-15 2008

April 2008
Rescue of an obelisk top in Egypt Aswan, March 2008

December 2007
Second QuarryScapes Workshop 18-21 October 2007, Petra, Jordan

December 2007
Final Reports: Aswan West Bank Ancient Quarry Landscape

March 2007
New Aswan City: Rescue survey in progress

March 2007
QuarryScapes fieldwork in Egypt: The final season of survey at the Aswan silicified sandstone quarries revealed previously undocumented ancient paved roads

December 2006
Second Aswan field season The second QuarryScapes fieldwork season in Aswan took place through November 2006.

November 2006
First symposium
The first QuarryScapes symposium took place at Divan Talya hotel in Antalya (Turkey) 15-17 October 2006.
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