Diachronic development of the Lake of Abusir during the third millennium BC, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

The paper introduces results of the survey of the Lake of Abusir, performed by the Czech Institute of Egyptology over the last few years. A detailed sedimentological description of four trenches located within the area of the so-called Lake of Abusir is given, together with the micromorphological results of selected strata, molluscs and archaeobotanical findings.

All the presented results document the paleoenvironmental and geoarchaeological history of the study area.

Keywords

• Egypt
• Archaic period and the Old Kingdom
• Lake of Abusir
• climate change
• cemetery development
• sedimentology
• geomorphology