It is good to see that the website for a very useful project has been updated with an expanded bibliography and some online publications (thanks to Per Storemyr for letting me know). The QuarryScapes project was first established to raise awareness of the value of ancient quarries to the understanding of the industrial and economic activities of the socieites that excavated them. Many of these quarries are now under threat from modern development activity.
The most recent updates to the site include Characterization of complex quarry landscapes: an example from the West Bank quarries, Aswan (Work Package 4, Deliverable 4). The report is broken down into a number of chapters written by different authors, and the entire report is edited by: Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Per Storemyr. It is an excellent resource, in PDF format - but before you hit the Print button on your keyboard do note that it is 289 pages long. Two mapsheets accompany the article, also in PDF format: Mapsheet 1 and Mapsheet 2.
See also the News section on all pages including the Home Page, which has details about work carried out in the Aswan area in March 2007.
The Eastern Desert section of QuarryScapes has no data at the moment, but for those interested in a summary of some of the material, Early Dynastic quarrying at Gebel Manzal el Seyl is described on my Eastern Desert website, as are the the Greek and Roman quarrying activities at Mons Porphyrites and Mons Claudianus, which are covered in some detail on the Graeco-Roman page. I've listed some of the raw material resources available on my Eastern Desert site in the raw materials appendix.
Another excellent online resource for ancient Egyptian raw materials and quarrying is James Harrell's Archaeological Geology of Ancient Egypt.
Another excellent online resource for ancient Egyptian raw materials and quarrying is James Harrell's Archaeological Geology of Ancient Egypt.
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