HISTORICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATIONS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FORTRESSES IN TELL EL-RETABA

• Authors: Jozef Hudec , Emil Fulajtár , Eva Stopková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The paper is focused on historical connotations of the Tell el-Retaba site to its geographic position with regards to hydrologic and pedologic situation. It suggests the position of Wadi Tumilat on the Peutinger map and persistence of desert (military) routes in the area around the Wadi. The river aggradation mound ascertained in Tell el-Retaba allows us to suggest an existence of natural riverbeds or a canal in Wadi Tumilat even before the Second Intermediate Period. The paper also brings some pedological explanations to origins of settlement. It presumes that besides the canal on the western and southern side of the Tell a marshland/swamp could also originate on its northern side, after the settlement occurred on the Tell. The occupation probably developed directly on the Bw horizon of original soil, as agricultural or grazing settlement. The humiferous A horizon was removed prior to construction.

Keywords

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TELL EL-RETABA; WADI TUMILAT; CANALS; DESERT; MAPS; GEOGRAPHY; PEDOLOGY; EGYPT; ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 247 – 283

Contributors

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Jozef Hudec

• Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Emil Fulajtár

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Eva Stopková