Saharan Worlds: Lakes, Pastoral Landscapes, and Caravan Networks
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Kellis: Dakhleh households and textile networks

Site and regional research names, not an ancient self-designation for every resident.

Households, work and correspondence connect an oasis village with wider networks. Texts and archaeology complement one another without becoming a neutral census of every resident.

Oasis village, household and textual context Main Roman and late-antique occupation, broadly first–early fifth centuries CE Mud-brick buildings, excavated household objects, documents, textile terminology and field reports. Mut public town orientation, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. Approximate public orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, political, cultural, sovereignty, water-rights or caravan-route boundary. Not a burial, ancestral-remains, restricted rock-art, sacred-site, water-tunnel or private deposit location; no access, travel, excavation or collecting permission is implied.
Resumen

Lagos, paisajes, hogares y evidencias

Agua, paisajes y conexiones regionales

Dakhleh Oasis and Nile-facing connections; Mut is a public orientation, not the Kellis excavation or cemetery.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Households and village institutions operated within changing Roman-period structures. Documentary survival cannot establish that one religious group or household represented every inhabitant.

Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Living communities and heritage authorities are not vanished archaeological classifications. Research, conservation and community knowledge have their own dates and permissions; this profile cannot establish or deny automatic continuity, recognition, water rights or descent. Cited institutions have not endorsed this atlas.

Settlement A specific village sequence

The project identifies Roman and late-Roman phases at Ismant el-Kharab, ancient Kellis.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Archaeology Different sites and contexts

The field report separates work at Kellis and Mut rather than combining their dates.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Labor Textile production and correspondence

Cromwell's chapter investigates work through documents and material context, with household archive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Early reviewed village phases

    The project places the main settlement in the Roman-period sequence.

  2. Household documents and later use

    Textile and correspondence evidence belongs to particular residents and surviving contexts.

  3. Survey and excavation

    The project distinguishes early survey from subsequent major excavation.

  4. Field report and textile study

    These are modern research events, not ancient changes in government.

Cultura e idioma

Alimentación, agua, trabajo especializado, escritura y creencias

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Greek, Coptic and Syriac occur in the reviewed textual archive; surviving documents do not identify every resident's spoken language.

Familia lingüística: Language evidence, script, material style and living identity are different categories; this context is not assigned one universal language family.

The project identifies Roman and late-Roman phases at Ismant el-Kharab, ancient Kellis.

The field report separates work at Kellis and Mut rather than combining their dates.

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer national heritage institutions, accountable archaeological projects, academic editions, original studies and living community knowledge in its authorized context. Identify institutional summaries, repository abstracts, preliminary reports, older colonial research, advisory evaluations and tentative nominations rather than treating them as independent excavation confirmation. Attribute chronology, composition date, genre, audience and viewpoint. Public access is not permission to reproduce source images, archives or restricted knowledge.

  1. C1

    Climate-driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

    University of Cologne repository; Science · Original environmental study by Stefan Kröpelin and colleagues, not a human census · 2008

  2. C2

    Saharan rock art: local dynamics and wider perspectives

    Sapienza repository; Arts 2, 350–382 · Original study by Marina Gallinaro; repository abstract and bibliographic record · 2013

  3. C3

    Rahib 80/87. Ein Wavy-Line-Fundplatz im Wadi Howar und die früheste Keramik in Nordafrika

    Heinrich-Barth-Institut; University of Cologne · Publisher's account of original ceramic research, not ethnic or linguistic identification · 2003, Africa Praehistorica 16

  4. C4

    Three Inscriptions from Ghadames in Tripolitania

    Papers of the British School at Rome; Cambridge University Press · Original epigraphic study by J. M. Reynolds; colonial-era vocabulary requires contextualization · Undated institutional resource; accessed 2026-10-20

  5. C5

    The prehistoric inhabitants of the Wadi Howar: an anthropological study of human skeletal remains from the Sudanese part of the Eastern Sahara

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · Erik Becker dissertation record; skeletal classification is attributed, not a racial or genetic identity · 2011

  6. C6

    Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery

    University of Bristol; Nature Plants · Original study by Julie Dunne and colleagues; DOI 10.1038/nplants.2016.194, not a farming-origin claim · 2016-12-19

  7. C7

    Refining gold with glass: an early Islamic technology at Tadmekka, Mali

    UCL Discovery; Journal of Archaeological Science 49 · Original study by Thilo Rehren and Sam Nixon, DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2014.04.013 · 2014

  8. C8

    Trans-Saharan Gold Trade and Byzantine Coinage

    The Antiquaries Journal; Cambridge University Press · Original numismatic reassessment, distinguishing blanks from officially marked coins · 2017

  9. C9

    Algeria’s Parks Embracing Cultural and Ecological Diversity

    United Nations Development Programme · Institutional project account of local livelihoods and cultural-park stewardship · Undated institutional resource; accessed 2026-10-20

  10. C10

    UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Ancient ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Institutional cultural mapping and local architectural knowledge, not an ancient ethnic boundary · Undated institutional resource; accessed 2026-10-20

  11. C11

    Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change

    PLOS ONE · Original study by Paul Sereno and colleagues; morphological categories and replacement models require attribution · 2008-08-14

  12. S1

    Ismant el-Kharab, Ancient Kellis

    Monash University, Dakhleh Oasis Project · Excavation project's own site and research account · Undated institutional resource; accessed 2026-10-20

  13. S2

    Dakhleh Oasis Project 2003–2004 Season Final Report

    Monash University, Dakhleh Oasis Project · Colin A. Hope's original field report, not one date for all oasis sites · 2003–2004 season

  14. S3

    Domestic Textile Production in Dakhleh Oasis in the Fourth Century AD

    Zea Books; University of Nebraska-Lincoln repository · Original chapter by Jennifer Cromwell, DOI 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1090 · 2020-03-02

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026