Open AccessIn Mud Forgotten: Old Kingdom Palaeoecological Evidence from Abusir
Author(s) -
Miroslav Bárta
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
studia quaternaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2300-0384
pISSN - 1641-5558
DOI - 10.2478/squa-2013-0007
Subject(s) - kingdom , pyramid (geometry) , archaeology , climate change , geography , geology , physical geography , paleontology , oceanography , physics , optics
The study aims to summarize major evidence on climate development on the pyramid fields based on Abusir data and dating to the Old Kingdom (2700 - 2200 BC). The interpretation of the latest data presented in the article is based on the presence and specific of mollusks, beetles, Lake of Abusir sediments, small vertebrate and archaeological evidence documented during research of several Old Kingdom tomb complexes and the seasonal Lake of Abusir. The study shows that the climate change was of a long-term nature and its origins may be dated at least to the second half of the Fifth Dynasty.