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Australian Archaeology, 2017 Puntutjarpa Rockshelter was the first archaeological site excavated in the Australian desert. Dug between 1967 and 1970, the archaeological sequence was originally interpreted as a continuous record spanning the last 10,000 years BP. With a new series of
Mike Smith, Alan N Williams, June Ross
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Until the beginning of the 20th century it was customary to refer to the whole North African desert as the Sahara (Sahra is the Arabic name for a desert), but recently it has become usual to divide the entire desert region of North Africa into Libyan (on the east) and Saharan (on the west) sections (Mitwally, 1953).
M. A. Zahran, A. J. Willis
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Until the beginning of the 20th century it was customary to refer to the whole North African desert as the Sahara (Sahra is the Arabic name for a desert), but recently it has become usual to divide the entire desert region of North Africa into Libyan (on the east) and Saharan (on the west) sections (Mitwally, 1953).
M. A. Zahran, A. J. Willis
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Carrion Insects of the Egyptian Western Desert
Journal of Medical Entomology, 1991A general survey was made on the zoosaprophagous insects and their associates in a natural ecosystem in the Egyptian western desert (80 km west of Alexandria, 12 km from the Mediterranean Sea shore). Two types of traps were used, one for flying insects and the other for soil-burrowing insects.
E M, Hegazi, M A, Shaaban, E, Sabry
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Australian Aboriginal Subsistence in the Western Desert
Human Ecology, 1987This paper describes Aboriginal subsistance patterns in the northern part of the Western Desert, Western Australia. It describes the seasonal round of the Aboriginal people living in this area, provides a quantified description of the plant and animal resources, and concludes by drawing attention to specific aspects of Aboriginal subsistence in this ...
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The Inland Western Desert of Egypt
2017Outside the oases of the Western Desert, five desert zones along a precipitation gradient were distinguished. In addition to the well-known semi-desert and full desert zones in the very north, three zones of extreme desert show a significant differentiation where the “accidental vegetation” occurs as precipitation is so low and falls so irregularly and
Monier M. Abd El-Ghani +3 more
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Attempted Predation of Western Desert Tarantula By Sonoran Desert Toad
The Southwestern Naturalist, 2017Sonoran Desert toads (Incilius alvarius) are known to consume invertebrates, small lizards, other toads, and mice. Here we report an attempt by a Sonoran Desert toad to consume a western desert tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) at Sabino Canyon, Arizona.
Michael T. Bogan, Drew E. Eppehimer
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Modeling Population Viability for the Desert Tortoise in the Western Mojave Desert
Ecological Applications, 1994The desert tortoise is a threatened species living in the deserts of the American Southwest. Using size—structured demographic models, we analyzed the status of the tortoise in the Western Mojave desert and evaluated the effectiveness of possible management measures.
Daniel Doak +2 more
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Rural Experiences: The Western Desert
2019This chapter is concerned with the Dakhla and Kharga Oases in the Western Desert. This was an obscure region, considered by the Egyptians to be outside of Egypt proper. Population there was limited, especially after the Old Kingdom when the artesian wells dried up. This picture changes dramatically under Achaemenid rule.
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The Penetration of the Western Deserts of Australia
The Geographical Journal, 1970The colony of South Australia was founded as late as 1836, but once established passed through an extraordinarily rapid development. Within a very few years expansion and the search for new pastures had reached the fringe of the desert interior, which was being probed to lay bare its secrets.
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Relating to the Country in the Western Desert
1995Abstract At the time I conducted eleven months’ fieldwork in the region ofUluru (Ayers Rock, Australian Western Desert) between 1977 and 1979, half a century had passed since colonization by pastoralists had irrevocably changed the indigenous way of life. Uluru itself had been subject to tourism for twenty years. East of Uluru lay cattle
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