@inbook{8f5778003fca4ee291423d87756f3a59,
title = "Surveying the pharaonic desert hinterland of Amara West",
abstract = "This chapter presents the results of a first season of survey of pharaonic sites in the desert hinterland beyond Amara West, a project that seeks to better understand local settlement patterns and the place of the Ramesside town therein. Two sites located north of Amara West, and their ceramic assemblages, are discussed in some detail. Both represent early Dynasty 18 occupation, on what seems to be a fairly modest scale. Test excavation at the more substantial of the two sites revealed a sequence of activity layers beginning with possible brick and wooden construction, a horizon of open fireplaces and the subsequent construction of more substantial stone structures. The chapter concludes by considering the possibility that the sites represent early Dynasty 18 gold prospection on the west bank of the river.",
keywords = "archaeology, Egyptology",
author = "Stevens, \{Anna Katherine\} and Anna Garnett",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
series = "British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan",
publisher = "Peeters Publishers",
number = "3",
pages = "287--306",
booktitle = "Nubia in the New Kingdom: Lived experience, pharaonic control and indigenous traditions",
address = "Belgium",
}