LAKES ON THE PREHISTORIC RIVER NILE: "HYDROLOGICAL" OUTLOOK FOR EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Owing to abrupt moistening of Eastern Africa’s climate, increase of Nile discharge and Mediterranean postglacial transgression, a giant water reservoir comparable to one of the “great” African lakes, Albert, may have formed in Egypt between Asyut and Fayum in early to mid-Holocene. Present hypothesis offers principal solutions to some crucial problems of the archaeology of Predynastic Egypt from Neolithic age to the formation of the Pharaonic state.