10 - September - 2011

Judd T., 2009. Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Content, Comparisons, Dating and Significance. British Archaeological Reports International Series, 141.

A review of the Eastern Desert rock art. Some rock art sites mentioned in the text are not shown in tables or figures, thus the understanding of what the Author is describing is limited. Interesting but it is not a work that can be studied without the sites catalogues, sold with another publication.

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17 - July - 2011

Tim Ingold, David Riches & James Woodburn Eds, 1997. Hunters and Gatherers: History, Evolution and Social Change (Explorations in Anthropology). Berg Publishers, 1: 242.

A fundamental collection of essay.

Tim Ingold, David Riches & James Woodburn Eds, 1997. Hunters and Gatherers: Property, Power and Ideology (Explorations in Anthropology). Berg Publishers: 2: 330.

It is amazing how many people pretend to analysize rock art without a minimum knowledge of modern athropology.

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Issawi Bahay, 2009. The Phanerozoic Geology of Egypt. A Geodynamic Approach. Ministry of Petroleoum.The Egyptian Mineral Resources Anthority: 589.

A very extended review of the Egyptian geology from a stratigraphic perspective. Recommended.

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26 - April - 2011

Evans-Pritchard E.E., 1956. Nuer religion. Oxford University Press: 335.

An ever green classic. An essential reading to understand the spirituality of the African cattle herders, which inherited the culture of the cattle herders that roamed the Sahara during the Holocene humid phase.

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25 - January - 2011

Gell A., 1998. Art and Agency. An Anthropological Theory. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 271.

A very elegant theory about art with some possible exciting applications to rock art studies. Recommended.

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12 - December -2010

Bollig M. & Bubenzer Olaf, 2010. African Landscapes. Interdisciplinary Approaches. Springer: 515.

A compilation of papers with some contributions from the Cologne archaeologists about the Holocene landscape of the Gilf Kebir.

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08 - October - 2010

McDermott B., 2004. Warfare in Ancient Egypt. Sutton Publishing: 212.

War was all about killing with cruelty also in the ancient Egypt. Higly recommended.

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10 - July - 2010

Buxton J., 1973. Religion and healing in Mandari. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 442.

One of the fundamental studies by the British ethnographers about one of the most important cattle herder people of the south Sudan.

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