Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Archaeology - Department of Egyptology

Site SOP 1024 was recorded during the survey of selima oasis pProject (SOP) in 2011 and then excavated in 2013. Radiocarbon dates together with the lithic material place the site to the Holocene phase around 6000 BC of the eastern sahara and thus give first insights in the hitherto more or less unknown prehistory of the Selima area. The archaeological material found on the site spreads over an area of about 1000x300 m, and comprises lithic artefacts, mainly made of quartzite, a few potsherds of Early Khartoum type as well as fragments of bone and ostrich eggshell. Different denser concentrations of artefacts are visible as are numerous small mounds of gravel and / or stone which probably represent hillocks. Around an area with a concentration of stone artefacts and some bones on the surface a trench (SOP 1024-1) extending 7x4 m was excavated. In this study, special focus is laid on the examination of lithic artefacts, and especially on flaked lithics and their technological aspects, because they represent the most frequent artefact class on this site

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