Chronology of construction and occupational phases of Nawamis tombs, Sinai based on OSL dating

Author:

Liritzis Ioannis1,Zacharias Nikolaos2,Al-Otaibi Fahad3,Iliopoulos Ioannis4,Katagas Christos4,Shaltout Mossalam5

Affiliation:

1. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Lab of Archaeometry, Dept of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece

2. Laboratory of Archaeometry, Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, University of the Peloponnese, 24133 Kalamata, Greece

3. King Saud University, Dept of History, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

4. Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Rio, Greece

5. National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Abstract The Nawamis are sandstone-built circular structures, located at several sites across Southern Sinai, Egypt. They are thought to be family tombs, created by the nomadic people that inhabited the area. Archaeological age estimates fall within the Early to Late Bronze Age. Here an interesting suite of nine OSL dates of three stone pieces has been resulted, from two Nawamis at Gebel Gunna and Ain Khodra fields. Single aliquot regeneration OSL of quartz grains provided the accumulated dose. XRD was used to identify mineralogy of several tombs. Based on the estimated luminescence ages a time span from Early and late Bronze ages is obtained, while some possible later activity, due to partial (re)construction or reuse of tombs, was detected.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

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