Dishna, Egypt

Dishna (Arabic: دشنا, from Coptic: ⲧⲉϣⲛⲏ, lit. 'the tree garden'[1]) is an Egyptian settlement west of Qena situated on the north bank of the river Nile.

Dishna, Egypt panorama

Geography

Dishna is 453 km (281 mi) from Cairo.[2][3]

History

An expedition of the Southern University of Texas explored the Sebilian culture on the Dishna plains.[4] The Ain Khoman tools of Oasis Baharia were identified as similar to the Esnan industry of the Dishna dated to c.12,300 B.P, differing only with respect to bifacial tools.[5] Several sites between Wadi Kubbaniya and the plains contained assemblages also of Esnan industrial production.[6] The Esnan industry, also known as Mesnian, employed a non-levallois technique, productions composed largely of end-scrapers, though also including a much smaller number of arch-backed bladelets and trapezoid.[7]

See also

References
  1. Peust, Carsten. "Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten" (PDF). p. 37.
  2. "places-in-the-world". A.Markowski. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  3. © 2009-2011 distancefromto.net Retrieved 2011-10-16
  4. Jozef M. A. Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Josef Janssen 1947 - Annual Egyptological bibliography Brill Archive, ISBN 90-04-04522-8 & F. Hassan - © UCL 1999–2012 Archived 2013-12-17 at the Wayback Machine f.hassan@ucl.ac.uk - Retrieved 2012-01-14
  5. Kathryn A. Bard (Steven Blake Shubert ed.) - Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt - 938 pages Routledge, 1999 Retrieved 2012-01-14 ISBN 0-415-18589-0 & ed. P.L. Shinnie - page 6. of NYAME AKUMA November 1978 - F.A..Hassan of Washington State University Newsletter of the Africanist Archaeologists in America Retrieved 2012-01-14
  6. Ian Shaw - The Oxford history of ancient Egypt - 525 pages Oxford University Press, 2003 Retrieved 2012-01-14 ISBN 0-19-280458-8
  7. page 160 of Butzer Karl W.. Late Quaternary problems of the Egyptian Nile : stratigraphy, environments, prehistory.. In: Paléorient. 1997, Vol. 23 N°2. Paléoenvironnement et sociétés humaines au moyen-orient de 20 000 BP à 6 000 BP. pp. 151-173. doi : 10.3406/paleo.1997.4658 Retrieved 2012-01-14
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  • Fekri A. Hassan 1974 - The archaeology of the Dishna Plain, Egypt: a study of a late palaeolithic settlement, Issues 57-60 Ministry of petroleum and Mineral Wealth, Geological Survey of Egypt and Mining Authority - Social Science - 174 pages library of Yale University Retrieved 2011-10-16 - books.google Retrieved 2012-01-14

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