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This volume presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 BC and continues until about 5000 BC. The archaeological material attests clear connections with the Nile Valley and the Western Desert during the wet Holocene period. Topics covered in the book include the sites lithics and ceramics, microwear analysis of the lithic artefacts, and the woody vegetation of the Neolithic period.