“Agoul landscapes” in the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Ecology and palaeoecology of vegetation mounds in El-Hayz, Southern Bahriya

Abstract

"Agoul landscapes" are formed by vegetation mounds. These aeolian structures are formed in a successive manner and thus conserve record of environmental change, as well as considerable part of local archaeological record.

In El-Hayz oasis, Egypt, they have been used by Czech archaeological expedition as an important source of information about the history of settlement since Roman Age until recently.

Keywords

• Egypt
• environmental archaeology
• Roman Age
• heritage conservation