Study on the ancient environment utilizing satellite and geological information at the lagoon are of West Delta, Egypt.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23251016
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Hasegawa So 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, 上級研究員 (80318831)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HARUYAMA Shigeko 三重大学, 生物資源研究科, 教授 (10267461) ; TSUMURA Hiroomi 同志社大学, 文化情報学部, 准教授 (40376934) ; KONDO Jiro 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (70186849) ; YOSHIMURA Sakuji 東日本国際大学, その他研究科, 教授 (80201052)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ETAYA Masahiro 東海大学, 情報技術センター, 研究員 (60398758)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: エジプト / 西方デルタ / 潟湖 / 衛星データ / 地質情報 / 生業複合 / 砂丘丘陵 / 神殿周域住居

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study to recover the ancient environment at the lagoon area of West Delta, Egypt, how to reconstruct the economic activity at the waterfront supported by the late foreign political power “Hellenism” against the pre-formed large Pharaonic tradition, would be a potential key. With the analysis of the remote sensing and the coring research, the reduction of the lake expansion became evident and the sand dune hills were considered as site territory. Consequently, the life style of “the compound occupations” was imaged as the tentative model of the daily life. The archaeological site, Kom al-Diba,’ is one of such sand dune hills and by the surface detection, the multi-layered construction centering the Hellenistic temple precinct became clear, showing the economic activity at the hinter lowland area near Alexandria, which has been overlooked so far at the field of classical archaeology.

Free Research Field

人文学、考古学、環地中海圏の文明論