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Herding then farming in the Nile Delta (2022)
Journal Article
Zhao, X., Liu, Y., Thomas, I., Salem, A., Wang, Y., Alassal, S. E., …Chen, Z. (2022). Herding then farming in the Nile Delta. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00416-7

The Nile Delta in Egypt represents a valuable location to study the history of human societal development and agricultural advancement. However, the livelihood patterns of the earliest settlers – whether they were farmers or herders – remains poorly... Read More about Herding then farming in the Nile Delta.

Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta (2021)
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Wilson, P., & Ghazala, H. (2021). Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal, 70(1), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-129-2021

The paper explores the relationship between the archaeological zones of the ancient city of Sais at Sa el-Hagar, Egypt, and the natural landscape of the western central Nile Delta and, in particular, the extent to which the dynamic form of the landsc... Read More about Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta.

Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods (2021)
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Pennington, B. T., Wilson, P., Sturt, F., & Brown, A. G. (online). Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods. World Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1864463

The role environmental change may have played at the dawn of Egyptian history has been overlooked in comparison with other periods. Natural landscape changes taking place in the Nile Delta are argued here to have been a facilitating factor allowing,... Read More about Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods.

Discovering Potential Settlement Areas around Archaeological Tells Using the Integration between Historic Topographic Maps, Optical, and Radar Data in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt (2019)
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Elfadaly, A., A.R. Abouarab, M., M. El Shabrawy, R. R., Mostafa, W., Wilson, P., Morhange, C., …Lasaponara, R. (2019). Discovering Potential Settlement Areas around Archaeological Tells Using the Integration between Historic Topographic Maps, Optical, and Radar Data in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt. Remote Sensing, 11(24), Article 3039. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11243039

The primary objective of this study is to leverage the integration of surface mapping data derived from optical, radar, and historic topographical studies with archaeological sampling to identify ancient settlement areas in the Northern Nile Delta, E... Read More about Discovering Potential Settlement Areas around Archaeological Tells Using the Integration between Historic Topographic Maps, Optical, and Radar Data in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt.

Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity (2018)
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Wilson, P. (2018). Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity. Late antique archaeology, 12(1), 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134522-12340066

Exclusively teaching the receptive skill of reading texts in a foreign language with no training in language production might seem to be a pedagogical relic and to contradict the communicative approach in foreign language teaching. However, it is a m... Read More about Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity.

The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta (2017)
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Pennington, B., Sturt, F., Wilson, P., Rowland, J., & Brown, A. (2017). The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta. Quaternary Science Reviews, 170, 212-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.06.017

The evolution of the Nile Delta, the largest delta system in the Mediterranean Sea, has both high palaeoenvironmental and archaeological significance. A dynamic model of the landscape evolution of this delta system is presented for the period c.8000–... Read More about The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta.

Prehistoric Settlement in the Western Delta: a regional and local view from Sais (Sa el-Hagar) (2007)
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Wilson, P. (2007). Prehistoric Settlement in the Western Delta: a regional and local view from Sais (Sa el-Hagar). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 92, 75-126

This paper publishes Prehistoric archaeological material from Egypt Exploration Society work at Sais (Sa el-Hagar), Egypt. The site was a fishing camp in the Early Neolithic which was settled in the Middle to Late Neolithic Period for the cultivation... Read More about Prehistoric Settlement in the Western Delta: a regional and local view from Sais (Sa el-Hagar).

The Delta Survey, 2002 (2003)
Journal Article
Wilson, P. (2003). The Delta Survey, 2002. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 89, 1-8