P.M. Vermeersch, P. Van Peer, V. Rots, L. Van Kerckhoven, and W. Van Neer (2005)
The Middle Holocene shell mound of El Gouna on the Red Sea (Egypt)
Journal of Field Archaeology, 30(4):435-442.
In the El Gouna (Hurghada) area on the Red Sea of Egypt, a Middle Holocene shell mound from around 5800 B.P. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years before A.D. 1950) has been tested by a restricted excavation. Collection of shellfish on the Red Sea shore provided subsistence opportunities for Middle Holocene groups coeval with the Early Predynastic Tasian of the Nile Valley. The El Gouna site demonstrates for the first time that prehistoric shell mounds exist near the Egyptian Red Sea shore.
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