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People and climate: holocene sediment records of environmental change in Middle Egypt: fieldwork report and initial results
The aim of this project is to reveal more about the history of Lake Qarun through a multidisciplinary environmental study. This approach primarily concerns the examination of sediment
records, but also includes collection of data from archaeological sites in the Faiyum. The sedimentary
history of Lake Qarun will be compared with (i) independent palaeoclimate records for the East
African Highlands and the eastern Mediterranean; (ii) local evidence (including Nile alluvial and
palaeo-shoreline sequences and Holocene playa deposits); and (iii) the cultural history of the Faiyum.
This report describes the fieldwork performed to obtain long sediment cores for palaeolimnological
analysis and presents initial results from those cores. Results will be used to construct a Geographical
Information System (GIS)