Dishna, Egypt

Dishna (, from ) is a settlement west of Qena situated on the north bank of the river Nile in Qena Governorate, Egypt.

History An expedition of the Southern University of Texas explored the Sebilian culture on the Dishna plains.Jozef M. A. Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Josef Janssen 1947 - Annual Egyptological bibliography Brill Archive, & F. Hassan - © UCL 1999–2012 [email protected] - Retrieved 2012-01-14 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.Kathryn A. Bard (Steven Blake Shubert ed.) - Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt - 938 pages Routledge, 1999 Retrieved 2012-01-14 & 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 Several sites between Wadi Kubbaniya and the plains contained assemblages also of Esnan industrial production.Ian Shaw - The Oxford history of ancient Egypt - 525 pages Oxford University Press, 2003 Retrieved 2012-01-14 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.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

Dishna, Egypt

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