For more information and images see:
Nekhen News
Nekhen News 20 (2008) - Flotilla
Nekhen News 21 (2009) – Off to a Rocky Start
Nekhen News 22 (2010) – The year of the Hippo, Days of the Donkey.
Nekhen News 24 (2012) – Wadi el Pheel – the Wadi of the Elephant / The Mystery of the Notch Rows
Nekhen News 25 (2013) – It’s Oryx Season: Rock Art 2013
Nekhen News 27 (2015) – Rock art behind closed doors ad much more.
Nekhen News 31 (2019) – Scenes of Hunting: The Rock Art of Three Hump Hill
Nekhen News 33 (2021) – Animals in Rock art at Hierakonpolis.
See also:
A walk through of the results of the first season of survey: http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/field09/2.html
Berger M., 1982. The Petroglyphs at Locality 61 in Hoffman, M.A. (ed.), The Predynastic of Hierakonpolis. (ESA 1) Cairo and Illinois: 61-65
Berger, M., 1992. Predynastic Animal-headed Boats from Hierakonpolis and Southern Egypt, in Friedman, R. and B. Adams (eds.). The Followers of Horus. Studies dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman. Oxford: 107-120.
Hardtke, F., 2012. Rock Art around Settlements: the Boats & Fauna at Hierakonpolis, Egypt in Huyge D., Van Noten F. & Swinne D (eds.). The signs of which times? Chronological and palaeoenvironmental issues in the rock art of Northern Africa. Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Brussels: 327-348. (available on academia.edu)
Hardtke, F., 2013. The Place of Rock Art in Egyptian Predynastic Iconography - Some Examples from the Fauna. Rock Art Research 30(1): 103-114. (available on academia.edu)
Hardtke, F., 2016. Occupation and Settlement at Hierakonpolis - A Rock Art Perspective, in M. D. Adams (ed.) in collaboration with B. Midant-Reynes, Y. Tristant, & E. M. Ryan Egypt at its Origins 4. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference ‘Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt’, New York, 26th -30th July 2011. Leuven : Peeters: 247-269.
Hardtke, F., 2017. Rock art interpretive approaches - Devising frameworks to maximally utilise independent lines of evidence Journal of Arid Environments 143: 22-27.
Hardtke, F., 2017. The Boats of Hierakonpolis Revisited, in B. Midant-Reynes, Y. Tristant, & E. M. Ryan (eds.) Egypt at its Origins 5. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference ‘Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt’, Cairo, 13th -18th April 2014. Leuven : Peeters: 831-861.
Hardtke, F. & Friedman, R. In Press. The Hierakonpolis Petroglyphs: Chronology, Attribution and Interpretation, in Gatto M.C., Medici P., Połkowski P.L., Förster F. and H. Riemer (eds), Current Research in the Rock Art of the Eastern Sahara. In Memory of Dirk Huyge (1957–2018). Proceedings of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO, Session 2B, Valcamonica, 29th August – 2nd September 2018), Archaeopress.
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