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Fred Wendorf

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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Bachelors Anthropology University of Arizona

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According to Wikipedia, Denver Fred Wendorf was an American archaeologist known primarily for his groundbreaking research in northeast Africa. He also founded the Fort Burgwin Research Center and Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, where he was Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory. He won numerous awards throughout his career and was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

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Fred Wendorf's Published Works

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Flood Plain Archeology. (Book Reviews: Prehistory of the Nile Valley; Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt. A Study in Cultural Ecology) (1977) (280)
Prehistory of the eastern Sahara (1980) (248)
The prehistory of the nile valley. (1968) (229)
The Prehistory of Nubia. (1969) (180)
Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory (1998) (159)
Dating Pleistocene Archeological Sites by Protein Diagenesis in Ostrich Eggshell (1990) (141)
Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara (2001) (130)
Saharan exploitation of plants 8,000 years BP (1992) (115)
Cattle-keepers of the eastern Sahara : the neolithic of Bir Kiseiba (1984) (114)
Use of Barley in the Egyptian Late Paleolithic (1979) (109)
A Middle Stone Age Sequence From The Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia (1974) (107)
Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant, (1975) (102)
Alternative Reconstruction of Northern Rio Grande Prehistory (1955) (91)
Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa (1975) (89)
The prehistory of the egyptian sahara. (1976) (88)
Megaliths and Neolithic astronomy in southern Egypt (1998) (84)
Egypt During The Last Interglacial (1993) (76)
Egypt During the Last Interglacial: The Middle Paleolithic Of Bir Tarfawi And Bir Sahara East (2012) (74)
New radiocarbon dates on the cereals from wadi kubbaniya. (1984) (72)
Egyptian prehistory: some new concepts. (1970) (69)
Are the early holocene cattle in the eastern sahara domestic or wild? (2005) (67)
LATE PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE EGYPTIAN SAHARA (1977) (57)
The prehistory of Dakhla Oasis and adjacent desert (1977) (49)
Late Pleistocene Environments of the Southern High Plains (1975) (47)
Contributions to the prehistory of Nubia (1967) (46)
Dating lacustrine episodes in the eastern Sahara by the epimerization of isoleucine in ostrich eggshells (1991) (43)
The Wadi Kubbaniya Skeleton: A Late Paleolithic Burial from Southern Egypt (1987) (40)
Prehistory of arid North Africa : essays in honor of Fred Wendorf (1987) (39)
A Last Interglacial Fauna from the Eastern Sahara (1989) (39)
A Reconstruction of Northern Rio Grande Prehistory1 (1954) (37)
Middle Paleolithic Lakes in the Southwestern Desert of Egypt (1993) (36)
Alluvial Chronology of the Tesuque Valley, New Mexico (1958) (36)
A Survey of the Egyptian Radar Channels: An Example of Applied Archaeology (1987) (34)
Geoarchaeology of the Holocene climatic optimum at Nabta Playa, Southwestern Desert, Egypt (2001) (33)
Discovery of the first Neolithic cemetery in Egypt’s western desert (2004) (33)
The archaeology of Nabta Playa (2001) (32)
Recent work on the Middle Palaeolithic of the Eastern Sahara (1987) (32)
Exploitation of wild plants by the early Neolithic hunter–gatherers of the Western Desert, Egypt: Nabta Playa as a case-study (1997) (30)
Holocene ecology and prehistory in the Egyptian Sahara. (1980) (30)
The Use of Ground Grain During the Late Paleolithic of the Lower Nile Valley, Egypt (1976) (30)
Early Man's Utilization of the Great Plains Environment (1962) (29)
Archaeobotany of the early Neolithic site E-75-6 at Nabta Playa, western desert, South Egypt (1995) (29)
Loaves and fishes : the prehistory of Wadi Kubbaniya (1980) (29)
A report on the excavation of a small ruin near Point of Pines, east central Arizona (1950) (28)
New Light on the Midland Discovery (1959) (27)
Archaeological studies in the Petrified Forest National Monument (1953) (26)
An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt (1999) (26)
A New Radiocarbon Chronology for Prehistoric Sites in Nubia (1979) (24)
Palaeolithic Remains in Upper Egypt (1967) (23)
A Microwear Study of a Late Pleistocene Qadan Assemblage from Southern Egypt (1993) (22)
Prehistoric Men and Cattle in North Africa : A Dearth of Data and a Surfeit of Models 163 (2013) (22)
Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt: A Review Article (2004) (20)
Chapter 6 – Middle Holocene environments of north and east Africa, with special emphasis on the African Sahara (2007) (19)
Early Man Sites near Concho, Arizona (1951) (18)
Early Man in the New World: Problems of Migration (1966) (17)
Early and Middle Holocene Paleoclimates in the South Western Desert of Egypt - The World Before Unification (2013) (16)
Late Paleolithic Sites In Egyptian Nubia (1968) (16)
Astronomy of Nabta Playa (2008) (15)
Remarks on the Holocene geology and archaeology of Northern Fayum Desert / Rushdi Said, Claude C. Albritton, Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild, Michał Kobusiewicz. (1972) (15)
Combined Prehistoric Expedition’s Radiocarbon Dates Associated with Neolithic Occupations in the Southern Western Desert of Egypt (2001) (14)
The geology and prehistory of the Nile Valley in Upper Egypt / Rushdi Said, Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild. (1970) (14)
North Africa At 18000 Bp (1990) (12)
Geomorphology, Lithostratigraphy, Geochronology and Taphonomy of Sites (2001) (11)
Site E-77-7 Revisited: The Early Neolithic of El Adam Type at El Gebal El Beid Playa (2001) (11)
Salvage archaeology in the Chama Valley, New Mexico (1954) (11)
Neolithic Tooth Replacement in Two Disturbed Burials from Southern Egypt (2003) (10)
One Elephant Doesn't Make a Savanna. Palaeoecological Significance of Loxodonta Africana in the Holocene Sahara (1994) (10)
The Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains: Three Decades of Service to the Archaeological Profession (2002) (10)
Book Review: Droughts, Food and Culture: Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory Edited by Fekri Hassan. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2002, 347 pp., $85.00, ISBN 0-306-46755-0 (2003) (9)
Megaliths in the Egyptian Sahara (1993) (8)
An Ancient Harvest on the Nile (1983) (8)
Stratigraphy, paleoeconomy, and environment (1989) (8)
The Midland discovery;: A report on the Pleistocene human remains from Midland, Texas, (1972) (8)
Forty years of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (2002) (7)
Ancient Man in North America. 4th edition, revised. H. M. Wormington. Denver Museum of Natural History, Popular Series, No. 4, Denver, 1957. xviii + 322 pp., 72 figs. $3.65 paper, $5.25 cloth. (1958) (7)
Pipeline Archaeology: Reports of Salvage Operations In the Southwest On El Paso Natural Gas Company Projects 1950-1953 (1956) (7)
The geological history of the Nile valley in Sudanese Nubia: Preliminary results (1964) (7)
Some climatic indicators in the period A.D. 1200-1400 in New Mexico (1963) (7)
Site E-96-1: The Complex Structures or Shrines (2001) (6)
Understanding the Late Palaeolithic tools with lustrous edges from the Lower Nile Valley (1991) (6)
The Megalithic Alignments (2001) (6)
New radiocarbon dates and Late Palaeolithic diet at Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt (1988) (6)
Chronology and stratigraphy of the Middle Paleolithic at Bir Terfawi, Egypt (1991) (6)
The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on North African Archaeology (1992) (6)
Prehistoric pastoral nomads in the Sinai (1998) (6)
Site E-75-9: The Excavation of an El Adam (?) Early Neolithic Settlement at Nabta Playa (2001) (5)
Site E-91-1: An Al Jerar Phase Locality at Nabta Playa (2001) (5)
Bone Needle from a Midland Site (1972) (5)
Archaeology of Northeastern New Mexico (1960) (5)
Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt: A Review Article@@@Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt (2002) (5)
Desert Days: My Life As a Field Archaeologist (2008) (5)
The New Mexico Program in Highway Archaeological Salvage (1957) (4)
Sites E-77-1 and E-94-3: Two Neolithic Sites Near Gebel Nabta (2001) (3)
Work at BT-14 During 1974 (1993) (3)
Paleopathology of ancient Nubian human bone studied by chemical and electron microscopic methods (1972) (3)
Conventional Radiocarbon Chronology in the Sahara. Beware of Fossil Fuel (1996) (3)
Guest Editorial: Changing Values in Archaeology (1979) (3)
A Sebilian Assemblage from El Kilh (Upper Egypt) (1974) (3)
Attempts to identify 8000-BP sorghum using image-analysis, infrared spectroscopy, and biotechnological procedures (1995) (3)
Loaves And Fishes (1980) (2)
The advantages of AMS to field archaeologists (1987) (2)
Late Glacial Environments and Paleoecology at Blackwater Draw, Near Clovis, New Mexico, U.S.A. (2008) (2)
E-88-1: The Archaeology of the Sandsheet (1993) (2)
LEWIS ROBERTS BINFORD (November 21, 1931–April 11, 2011) (2011) (2)
Patterned Use of a Middle Palaeolithic Landscape: Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Eastern Sahara (1990) (2)
The Prehistory of Wadi Kubbaniya 2-3, Assembled (1992) (2)
The Use of Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry in the Identification of Ancient Sorghum Seeds (1999) (2)
Guide for Salvage Archaeology (1962) (2)
The Western Desert during the 5th and 4th millennia BC. The Late and Final Neolithic in the Nabta-Kiseiba Area (2004) (2)
Food economy and settlement system during the Neolithic in the Egyptian Sahara (2017) (1)
Research at Bir Tarfawi : archaeological and geological investigations in the Egyptian Sahara / Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild, Rushdi Said, Achilles Gautier, Michał Kobusiewicz. (1981) (1)
Environment and Archaeology: An Introduction to Pleistocene Geography. Karl W. Butzer. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1964. 524 pp., 19 tables, 84 figs. $12.50. (1965) (1)
Archaeology and Private Enterprise: A Need for Action (1963) (1)
Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory. Bruce G. Trigger (1969) (1)
E-87-5: Occupations Dating to the Grey Phases (1993) (1)
ARCHEOLOGY: Chapters in the Prehistory of Eastern Arizona, I. Paul S. Martin, John B. Rinaldo, William A. Longacre, Constance Cronin, Leslie G. Freeman, Jr., James Schoenwetter (1964) (1)
Late paleolithic archaeology (1989) (1)
BS-11: A Site in the Recessional Beach of West Lake 1 (1993) (1)
Impure science. Fraud, compromise, and political influence in scientific research. By Robert Bell. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1992. xvi + 301 pp. ISBN 0‐451‐52913‐3. $22.95 (cloth) (1993) (1)
E-87-1: A Locality Associated with the Sand Pan Delta (1993) (1)
Comments on archaeological classification and ethnic groups (1977) (1)
Late Paleolithic sites Upper Egypt / Fred Wendorf, Rushdi Said, Romuald Schild. (1970) (1)
Advances in World Archaeology, Volume 2 (1983) (1)
The lower nile valley between 21000 and 17000-bp (1990) (0)
Middle Paleolithic Egypt (2001) (0)
Emergence of the of the the role of writing in Egypt, Near East and China A RCHÉO -N IL (2016) (0)
Pilot Study To Investigate the Feasibility of CD ROM Technology for Archaeological Reports - Final Report (1989) (0)
The Prehistory of Nubia (1969) (0)
Brothers in Archaeology (2005) (0)
William Curry Holden 1896-1993 (1994) (0)
Mogollon Cultural Continuity and Change, The Stratigraphic Analysis of Tularosa and Cordova Caves. Paul S. Martin, John B. Rinaldo, Elaine Bluhm, Hugh C. Cutler, and Roger Grange, Jr. (1953) (0)
Treasure Hunting: Fact and Fiction (1983) (0)
A brief summary of the earliest neolithic settlements in the eastern Sahara (1984) (0)
The prehistory of Nubia : [final report] (1968) (0)
E-88-14: An Assemblage Associated with the Tarfawi White Lake (1993) (0)
The origins of pastoralism in Egypt. (1990) (0)
Excavations in the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado, Area. and C. C. Irwin. Denver Museum of Natural History, Proceedings, No. 8, Denver, 1959 viii + 156 pp., 76 figs., 8 tables. $2.50. (1961) (0)
The Archaeology of Early Man. J. M. Coles and E. S. Higgs. Praeger, New York, 1969. 456 pp., illus. $16 (1970) (0)
PALEOCLIMATES IN THE SOUTH WEST ERN DESERT OF EGYPT – THE WORLD BE FORE UNI FI CA TION (2013) (0)
Paleo-American Prehistory: Paleo-American Prehistory . Alan L. Bryan. Idaho State University Museum, Pocatello, 1965. 251 pp., $5. (1966) (0)
Prehistory: The Archaeology of Early Man . J. M. Coles and E. S. Higgs. Praeger, New York, 1969. 456 pp., illus. $16. (1970) (0)
The Prehistory of Nubia. Volumes One and Two (1971) (0)
Appendix K – Wear Patterns on Some Lithic Artifacts from Isnan Sites (1976) (0)
"The Prehistory of Nubia", pod red. F. Wendorfa, Dallas 1968 : [recenzja] / Janusz K. Kozłowski. (1972) (0)
Paleo-American Prehistory (1966) (0)
Late Paleolithic Egypt (2001) (0)
Forty years of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition / Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf. (2002) (0)
Reconstructing Neolithic buildings at the Gebel Khasem El Taref (Sinai, Egypt) / Romuald Schild, Fred Wendorf, Frank W. Eddy, Joseph J. Miller. (2001) (0)
Stephan F. de Borhegyi, 1921-1969 (1970) (0)
Archeology: Environment and Archeology: An Ecological Approach to Prehistory. KARL W. BUTZER (1972) (0)

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