Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-187-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-187-2021
Preface
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23 Jul 2021
Preface |  | 23 Jul 2021

Preface: Special issue “Geoarchaeology of the Nile Delta”

Julia Meister, Eva Lange-Athinodorou, and Tobias Ullmann

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Altmeyer, M., Seeliger, M., Ginau, A., Schiestl, R., and Wunderlich, J.: Reconstruction of former channel systems in the northwestern Nile Delta (Egypt) based on corings and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 70, 151–164, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-151-2021, 2021. 
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Butzer, K. W.: Geoarchaeological implications of recent research in the Nile Delta, in: Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennium BCE, edited by: van den Brink, E. C. M. and Levy, T. E., Leicester University Press, London, New York, 83–97, 2002. 
Coutellier, V. and Stanley, D. J.: Late Quaternary stratigraphy and paleogeography of the eastern Nile Delta, Egypt, Mar. Geol., 77, 257–275, https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(87)90116-2, 1987. 
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This is the preface to the special issue "Geoarchaeology of the Nile Delta: Current Research and Future Prospects", which brings together geoarchaeological case studies from different regions of the Nile Delta.