Bibliography

This document contains the extended bibliography which has been used in the database. Entries are listed in alphabetical order.

Periodicals have been abbreviated as follows:

• Antiquity: A Review of World Archaeology.
• Archéo-Nil: Revue de la Société pour l’Étude des Cultures Prépharaoniques de la Vallée du Nil.
• AZANIA: Archaeological Research in Africa.
• INORA: International Newsletter on Rock Art.
• JARCE: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt.
• JEA: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.
• MDAIK: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo.
• TdE: Trabajos de Egyptología.
• ZÄS Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde.

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