A geomorphological study of the Giza Necropolis, with implications for the development of the site

Archaeometry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 149-165

  Reader, C D ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degradation; Early Dynastic; Egypt; Geomorphology; Giza necropolis; Sphinx temple

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035242068     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.00009     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Butzer, K. W., 1971, Environment and archaeology: an ecological approach to prehistory, Aldine, Chicago.
2. Butzer, K. W., April 1982, Review of 'Siedlungsfunde Aus Dem Fruhen Alten Reich in Giseh', Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 41(2), 93-5.
3. Choudhory, A. N., Adinarayana, R. P., and Gauri, K. L., 1990, Weathering of Limestone Beds at the Great Sphinx, Environmental Geology and Water Science, 15, 217-23.
4. Emery, W. B., 1961, Archaic Egypt (1991 edn), Penguin, London.
5. Gauri, K. L., 1981, Deterioration of the stone of the Great Sphinx, Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt, 114, 35-47.
6. Gauri, K. L., 1984, Geologic study of the Sphinx, Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt, 127, 24-43.
7. Gauri, K. L., Sinai, J. J., and Bandyopadhyay, J. K., 1995, Geologic weathering and its implications on the age of the Sphinx, Geoarchaeology, 10(2), 119-33.
8. Kromer, K., 1978, Siedlungsfunde Aus Dem Fruhen Alten Reich in Giseh, Osterreichische Ausgrabungen, 1971-75, Osterreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften, 136.
9. Lehner, M., 1985a, The development of the Giza necropolis - the Khufu Project, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, 41.
10. Lehner, M., 1985b, A contextual approach to the Giza pyramids, Archiv fur Orientforschung, 32, 136-58.
11. Lehner, M., and Hawass, Z., 1994, Archaeology, Sept./Oct., 32-47.
12. Lehner, M., Allen, J. P. and Gauri, K. L., 1980, The ARCE Sphinx Project - a preliminary report. Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt, 112, 3-33.
13. Mortensen, B., 1985, Four jars from the Maadi culture found at Giza, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, 41, 145-7.
14. Petrie, W. M. F., 1907, Gizeh and Rifeh, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London.
15. Reisner, G. A., 1931, Mycerinus, the temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
16. Ricke, H., 1970, Der Harmachistempel des Chefren in Giseh, Beitrage zur Agyptischen Bausforschung und Altertumskunde, 10, 1-43.
17. Saleh, A. A., 1974, Excavations around Mycerinus Pyramid Complex, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, 30, 137.
18. Schoch, R. M., 1992, Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza, KMT, 3(2), 53-9, 66-70.