On the long and winding road: unravelling the late emergence of Neolithic agriculture in the Nile Delta

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作者：

Zhao, Xiaoshuang ^{[1
,2
]}

Kaniewski, David ^{[3
]}

Wang, Yanna ^{[2
]}

Marriner, Nick ^{[4
]}

Salem, Alaa ^{[5
]}

Alassal, Said E. ^{[6
]}

Liu, Yan ^{[2
]}

Jiang, Feng ^{[7
]}

Chen, Jing ^{[2
]}

Sun, Qianli ^{[2
]}

Li, Maotian ^{[2
]}

Thomas, Ian ^{[8
]}

Finlayson, Brian ^{[8
]}

Sheisha, Hader ^{[9
,10
]}

Morhange, Christophe ^{[10
,11
]}

Otto, Thierry ^{[3
]}

Luce, Frederic ^{[3
]}

Chen, Zhongyuan ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Xinjiang Normal Univ, Collelge Geog & Tourism, Urumqi 830017, Peoples R China

[2] East China Normal Univ, State Key Lab Estuarine & Coastal Res, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China

[3] Univ Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier UT3, Univ Toulouse, Ctr Rech Biodivers & Environm CRBE, CNRS,IRD,Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France

[4] Univ Franche Comte, CNRS, UMR 6049, TheMA,MSHE Ledoux, 32 Rue Megevand, F-25030 Besancon, France

[5] Kafrelsheikh Univ, Fac Sci, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt

[6] Minist Antiqu, Supreme Council Antiqu, Cairo, Egypt

[7] Tongji Univ, State Key Lab Marine Geol, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China

[8] Univ Melbourne, Sch Geog Earth & Atmospher Sci, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia

[9] Avignon Univ, Aix Marseille Univ, Inst Mediterraneen Biodiversite & Ecol IMBE, Europole Mediterraneen Arbois,CNRS,IRD, Aix En Provence, France

[10] UNC Univ Nouvelle Caledonie, ISEA Inst Sci Exactes & Appl, 145 Ave James Cook,BP R4, F-98851 Noumea, New Caledonia

[11] EPHE, PSL, Sect Sci Hist & Philol, AOROC,UMR 8546, Paris, France

来源：

QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS | 2025年 / 359卷

关键词：

Nile Delta; Animal-plant microfossils; Livelihood transition; Nile discharge; Sea-level rise; HOLOCENE CLIMATE-CHANGE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; DIATOM RECORD; LEVEL CHANGE; SEA-LEVEL; EGYPT; EVOLUTION; RAINFALL; HISTORY; TERMINATION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109368

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

Despite the Nile Delta's abundant natural resources, the emergence of Neolithic agriculture did not evolve in tandem with neighboring regions, long raising questions about the underlying factors contributing to this delay. We analyzed pollen and non-pollen microfossils of three Predynastic sites (Buto - Tell el-Fara'in, Sais - Sa elHagar and Kom el-Khilgan) to track the environmental factors hindering the emergence and development of herding and farming in the Nile Delta before 7000 cal. BP. High-resolution-dated microfossils showed that during the African Humid Period, the delta experienced environmental instability, characterized by remarkably high Nile discharge and rapid sea-level rise, impeding early human occupation of the deltaic plain. Sea-level stabilization and declining Nile discharge beginning ca. 7000 years ago promoted herding as an opportunistic activity in coping with and exploiting the delta's uninhabitable environmental setting. This pastoral livelihood transitioned to sedentary farming that prevailed a millennium after the deltaic setting became stable.

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[1] THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: UNGULATE EXPLOITATION AND DOMESTICATION IN EARLY NEOLITHIC ANATOLIA (10000-7000 CAL BC)
Peters, Joris
Buitenhuis, Hijlke
Grupe, Gisela
Schmidt, Klaus
Poellath, Nadja
ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN SOUTHWEST ASIA AND EUROPE, 2013, 59 : 83 - 114

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