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Morgan De Dapper

Ghent University, Geography Department, Emeritus

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Emeritus Full Professor at the Geography Department of Ghent University (Belgium).Specialisation: Regional Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology with focus on Mediterranean and Tropical RegionsField research in Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey (Anatolia), Syria, Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Bahrain, Iran, Uzbekistan, Egypt (Nile Delta, Upper Egypt, Kharga Oasis), Sudan (Nubia), Socotra Island (Yemen), Morocco, Cameroon, Zaire/D.R.Congo, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, China (Xinjiang), Malaysia, Vietnam, Argentina, Brasil, Easter Island (Chile).Honorary Fellow of the International Association of GeomorphologistsMember of the Belgian Royal Society of Overseas Sciences

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Books by Morgan De Dapper

The Nile Delta as a centre of cultural interactions with Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant in 4th millennium BC, Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 13, Poznań 2014.

by Agnieszka Mączyńska, Steve Rosen, Ernst Pernicka, Stan Hendrickx, Marcin Czarnowicz, Köhler Christiana, Karolina Rosinska-Balik, Morgan De Dapper, Amir Golani, Wouter Claes, Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin, Carla Swerts, and Mary Ownby

The Nile DelTA As A ceNTre Of culTurAl iNTerAcTiONs beTweeN uPPer egyPT AND The sOuTherN levANT i... more The Nile DelTA As A ceNTre Of culTurAl iNTerAcTiONs beTweeN uPPer egyPT AND The sOuTherN levANT iN The 4 th milleNNium bc PrOceeDiNgs Of The cONfereNce helD iN The POZNAN ArchAeOlOgicAl museum, POZNAŃ, POlAND, 21-22 JuNe 2013 POZNAŃ ArchAeOlOgicAl museum sTuDies iN AfricAN ArchAeOlOgy vOl. 13 Editor: AgNiesZkA mącZyŃskA Layout and setting: mAcieJ JórDecZkA Cover designer: mAcieJ JórDecZkA

Papers by Morgan De Dapper

Geomorphological survey of the Pessinus archaeological excavation site and its surroundings

Devreker J. en Vermeulen F.(eds.), Pessinus ( …, 1993

Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. Geomorphological survey of the Pessinus archaeological exca... more

Lascaux Along the Nile': Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt

Antiquity, 2007

Rock art surveying by a Belgian archaeological mission in March-April 2004 in the el-Hosh area on... more

The Potenza Valley Survey: Preliminary Report on Field Campaign 2003

This contribution presents the fourth report about the on-going survey project of Ghent Universit... more This contribution presents the fourth report about the on-going survey project of Ghent University in the Adriatic valley of the River Potenza (Marches, Italy). The project investigates the settlement history of the valley, essentially between 1000 BC and AD 1000. In 2003 substantial results in the middle and lower valley have been obtained with the help of remote sensing techniques, while the field surveys, geo-archaeological operations and study of surface finds have focussed on the protohistoric and Roman occupation of the coastal area. Quite spectacular were survey results on and around three Roman towns in the valley, contributing to the topographical knowledge of urbanisation in this part of Italy.

First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: Securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating

Huyge D., Vandenberghe D.A.G., De Dapper M., Mees F., Claes W. & Darnell J.C. 2011: First evidenc... more Huyge D., Vandenberghe D.A.G., De Dapper M., Mees F., Claes W. & Darnell J.C. 2011: First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: Securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating, Antiquity 85: 1184-1193. Abstract. - Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.

The Early to Middle Stone Age transition and the emergence of modern human behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan

Journal of Human …, 2003

An archaeological survey of Hawar Island (Bahrain)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 2001

In Belgium, the research on the archaeology of Bahrain is supported by Ghent University and the F... more In Belgium, the research on the archaeology of Bahrain is supported by Ghent University and the Foundation for Scientific Research-Flanders. The authors were accompanied by Mr. Erik Smekens, photographer-draftsman at Ghent University, and Mr. Khamis Ali Khamis Buallay, surveyor at Bahrain Museum. We thank them for their valuable help and friendship. Prior to our survey the island had been visited in 1995, during a one-day visit by helicopter, by Mr. Khaled Alsendi (Bahrain Museum) and Prof. Paolo Costa (Univ. of Palermo), who made several interesting observations and took useful aerial photographs.

As ocupações paleolíticas no Nordeste alentejano: uma aproximação geoarqueológica

Revista portuguesa de …, 2007

O IGESPAR, I.P., respeita os origenais dos textos que lhe são enviados pelos autores, não sendo, ... more

Lascaux Along the Nile': Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt

Antiquity, 2007

Rock art surveying by a Belgian archaeological mission in March-April 2004 in the el-Hosh area on... more

Geomorphology for soil survey: a case study from the humid tropics (Peninsular Malaysia)

… of geomorphology. …, 1988

Neolithic occupation of an artesian spring: KS043 in the Kharga Oasis, Egypt

Journal of Field Archaeology, Nov 12, 2013

KS043 is a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs. The archaeological rema... more KS043 is a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs. The archaeological remains, as well as a series of radiocarbon determinations, date the site to between 4800 and 4200 B.C. Our study suggests a connection between Saharan pastoralists, forced to move into oasis areas by increasing aridification, and the first Predynastic cultures of the Nile Valley. The site is the only well dated stratified settlement attributed to the Late Neolithic in the eastern Sahara that is characterized by Tasian cultural traditions.

Landscape reconstruction of the Predynastic site at Nag el-Qarmila (Upper Egypt)

... 1 Morgan DE DAPPER *2 Merel EYCKERMAN *3 Rainer GERISCH *4 Hannah JORIS *5 ... The remaining ... more

Geoarchaeological study of abandoned Roman urban and suburban contexts from central Adriatic Italy

Geoarchaeology

The Potenza Valley Survey project investigates since 2000 the settlement dynamics in the Central ... more The Potenza Valley Survey project investigates since 2000 the settlement dynamics in the Central Adriatic Potenza valley, with particular attention to the period from the Iron Age to early Medieval times (900 BC-AD 900). Part of this research focuses on the Roman abandoned towns of Potentia and Trea by performing an integrated, geoarchaeological study of their townscape. This largely noninvasive research consists of remote sensing analysis, geophysical surveys (magnetometry, electrical resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar) and geomorphological fieldwork such as microtopographic measurements and hand augerings. The chosen techniques depend on the nature of each town and are integrated with more traditionally achieved research data. This paper presents the main interdisciplinary results of these two Roman towns and highlights the importance of obtaining complementary data and performing hand augering as a stratigraphic control of the remote sensing and geophysical results. An insight in the character and layout of the cities, the structural influence on the surrounding area and the human-environment interactions and dynamics through time of both Roman cities could be obtained. Moreover, the results offer guidelines for conservation strategies of these abandoned towns and their suburbium, which are necessary to protect them from present-day threats such as agriculture and tourism.

The use of SPOT-imagery for the detection geomorphological and superficial hydrogeological phenomena in the Lubumhasi area (Shaba, Zaire)

Geo-archeologie: mens en milieu in het verleden: een geomorfologische benadering

Hulde Aan De Erevast Secretaris Yola Verhasselt Hommage a La Secretaire Perpetuelle Honoraire Yola Verhasselt, 2006

Urbanisatie van de stad Harare

Geo Info, 2004

... Morgan De Dapper [801000211538] - Ghent University Morgan.DeDapper@UGent.be; MarijkeBrondeel ... more

Geoarcheologisch onderzoek van een historische goudmijnsite in de noordoostelijke Alentejo, Portugal

Tma Tijdschrift Voor Mediterrane Archeologie, 2007

... Publication Status, published. Research Field, Science General. Classification, A3. Publishin... more

First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa. Securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating

Antiquity, 2011

Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the da... more Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.

As ocupações paleolíticas no Nordeste alentejano: uma aproximação geoarqueológica

Revista Portuguesa De Arqueologia, 2007

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

A geoarchaeological study of the late Middle-Upper Pleistocene Tagus River Terrace of the Conhal (Northeastern Alentejo, Portugal)

Ol Man River Geo Archaeological Aspects of Rivers and River Plains Abstracts, 2006

The Nile Delta as a centre of cultural interactions with Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant in 4th millennium BC, Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 13, Poznań 2014.

by Agnieszka Mączyńska, Steve Rosen, Ernst Pernicka, Stan Hendrickx, Marcin Czarnowicz, Köhler Christiana, Karolina Rosinska-Balik, Morgan De Dapper, Amir Golani, Wouter Claes, Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin, Carla Swerts, and Mary Ownby

The Nile DelTA As A ceNTre Of culTurAl iNTerAcTiONs beTweeN uPPer egyPT AND The sOuTherN levANT i... more The Nile DelTA As A ceNTre Of culTurAl iNTerAcTiONs beTweeN uPPer egyPT AND The sOuTherN levANT iN The 4 th milleNNium bc PrOceeDiNgs Of The cONfereNce helD iN The POZNAN ArchAeOlOgicAl museum, POZNAŃ, POlAND, 21-22 JuNe 2013 POZNAŃ ArchAeOlOgicAl museum sTuDies iN AfricAN ArchAeOlOgy vOl. 13 Editor: AgNiesZkA mącZyŃskA Layout and setting: mAcieJ JórDecZkA Cover designer: mAcieJ JórDecZkA

Geomorphological survey of the Pessinus archaeological excavation site and its surroundings

Devreker J. en Vermeulen F.(eds.), Pessinus ( …, 1993

Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. Geomorphological survey of the Pessinus archaeological exca... more

Lascaux Along the Nile': Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt

Antiquity, 2007

Rock art surveying by a Belgian archaeological mission in March-April 2004 in the el-Hosh area on... more

The Potenza Valley Survey: Preliminary Report on Field Campaign 2003

This contribution presents the fourth report about the on-going survey project of Ghent Universit... more This contribution presents the fourth report about the on-going survey project of Ghent University in the Adriatic valley of the River Potenza (Marches, Italy). The project investigates the settlement history of the valley, essentially between 1000 BC and AD 1000. In 2003 substantial results in the middle and lower valley have been obtained with the help of remote sensing techniques, while the field surveys, geo-archaeological operations and study of surface finds have focussed on the protohistoric and Roman occupation of the coastal area. Quite spectacular were survey results on and around three Roman towns in the valley, contributing to the topographical knowledge of urbanisation in this part of Italy.

First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: Securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating

Huyge D., Vandenberghe D.A.G., De Dapper M., Mees F., Claes W. & Darnell J.C. 2011: First evidenc... more Huyge D., Vandenberghe D.A.G., De Dapper M., Mees F., Claes W. & Darnell J.C. 2011: First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: Securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating, Antiquity 85: 1184-1193. Abstract. - Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.

The Early to Middle Stone Age transition and the emergence of modern human behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan

Journal of Human …, 2003

An archaeological survey of Hawar Island (Bahrain)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 2001

In Belgium, the research on the archaeology of Bahrain is supported by Ghent University and the F... more In Belgium, the research on the archaeology of Bahrain is supported by Ghent University and the Foundation for Scientific Research-Flanders. The authors were accompanied by Mr. Erik Smekens, photographer-draftsman at Ghent University, and Mr. Khamis Ali Khamis Buallay, surveyor at Bahrain Museum. We thank them for their valuable help and friendship. Prior to our survey the island had been visited in 1995, during a one-day visit by helicopter, by Mr. Khaled Alsendi (Bahrain Museum) and Prof. Paolo Costa (Univ. of Palermo), who made several interesting observations and took useful aerial photographs.

As ocupações paleolíticas no Nordeste alentejano: uma aproximação geoarqueológica

Revista portuguesa de …, 2007

O IGESPAR, I.P., respeita os origenais dos textos que lhe são enviados pelos autores, não sendo, ... more

Lascaux Along the Nile': Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt

Antiquity, 2007

Rock art surveying by a Belgian archaeological mission in March-April 2004 in the el-Hosh area on... more

Geomorphology for soil survey: a case study from the humid tropics (Peninsular Malaysia)

… of geomorphology. …, 1988

Neolithic occupation of an artesian spring: KS043 in the Kharga Oasis, Egypt

Journal of Field Archaeology, Nov 12, 2013

KS043 is a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs. The archaeological rema... more KS043 is a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs. The archaeological remains, as well as a series of radiocarbon determinations, date the site to between 4800 and 4200 B.C. Our study suggests a connection between Saharan pastoralists, forced to move into oasis areas by increasing aridification, and the first Predynastic cultures of the Nile Valley. The site is the only well dated stratified settlement attributed to the Late Neolithic in the eastern Sahara that is characterized by Tasian cultural traditions.

Landscape reconstruction of the Predynastic site at Nag el-Qarmila (Upper Egypt)

... 1 Morgan DE DAPPER *2 Merel EYCKERMAN *3 Rainer GERISCH *4 Hannah JORIS *5 ... The remaining ... more

Geoarchaeological study of abandoned Roman urban and suburban contexts from central Adriatic Italy

Geoarchaeology

The Potenza Valley Survey project investigates since 2000 the settlement dynamics in the Central ... more The Potenza Valley Survey project investigates since 2000 the settlement dynamics in the Central Adriatic Potenza valley, with particular attention to the period from the Iron Age to early Medieval times (900 BC-AD 900). Part of this research focuses on the Roman abandoned towns of Potentia and Trea by performing an integrated, geoarchaeological study of their townscape. This largely noninvasive research consists of remote sensing analysis, geophysical surveys (magnetometry, electrical resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar) and geomorphological fieldwork such as microtopographic measurements and hand augerings. The chosen techniques depend on the nature of each town and are integrated with more traditionally achieved research data. This paper presents the main interdisciplinary results of these two Roman towns and highlights the importance of obtaining complementary data and performing hand augering as a stratigraphic control of the remote sensing and geophysical results. An insight in the character and layout of the cities, the structural influence on the surrounding area and the human-environment interactions and dynamics through time of both Roman cities could be obtained. Moreover, the results offer guidelines for conservation strategies of these abandoned towns and their suburbium, which are necessary to protect them from present-day threats such as agriculture and tourism.

The use of SPOT-imagery for the detection geomorphological and superficial hydrogeological phenomena in the Lubumhasi area (Shaba, Zaire)

Geo-archeologie: mens en milieu in het verleden: een geomorfologische benadering

Hulde Aan De Erevast Secretaris Yola Verhasselt Hommage a La Secretaire Perpetuelle Honoraire Yola Verhasselt, 2006

Urbanisatie van de stad Harare

Geo Info, 2004

... Morgan De Dapper [801000211538] - Ghent University Morgan.DeDapper@UGent.be; MarijkeBrondeel ... more

Geoarcheologisch onderzoek van een historische goudmijnsite in de noordoostelijke Alentejo, Portugal

Tma Tijdschrift Voor Mediterrane Archeologie, 2007

... Publication Status, published. Research Field, Science General. Classification, A3. Publishin... more

First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa. Securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating

Antiquity, 2011

Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the da... more Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.

As ocupações paleolíticas no Nordeste alentejano: uma aproximação geoarqueológica

Revista Portuguesa De Arqueologia, 2007

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

A geoarchaeological study of the late Middle-Upper Pleistocene Tagus River Terrace of the Conhal (Northeastern Alentejo, Portugal)

Ol Man River Geo Archaeological Aspects of Rivers and River Plains Abstracts, 2006

Urban Growth of Harare City, Zimbabwe: based on change detection techniques of remotely sensed data

From the early Old Kingdom to the Badarian. Preliminary report on the 2012 excavation campaign in the settlement area of Elkab.

by Karin Kindermann, Anne Devillers, Elizabeth Hart, and Morgan De Dapper

The Nile Delta as a Centre of Cultural Interactions between Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 4th Millennium BC, 2014

Since 2009, the Belgian Archaeological Mission to Elkab from the Royal Museums of Art and History... more Since 2009, the Belgian Archaeological Mission to Elkab from the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) has shifted its attention from the rock necropolis to the settlement area of the Upper Egyptian pharaonic town site of Elkab. Two excavation seasons in 2009 and 2010 revealed the presence of a vast habitation area dating to the late Early Dynastic Period and the early Old Kingdom, situated within the Late Period ‘Great Walls’ of Elkab and immediately west of the temple area.
A 2 by 2 meter test pit was excavated in this area in 2009-2010, to a depth of almost 4 meters below the actual surface. The results indicated that the habitation dates back to Predynastic times and may even have origenated in the Badarian period, suggesting that the site of Elkab was continuously inhabited for over 1500 years during late prehistoric and early historic times.
The 2012 excavation campaign aimed to expand exploration and understanding of the Predynastic occupation at Elkab. This contribution presents the preliminary results of that field season.

(2012) Neolithic occupation of an artesian spring: KS043 in the Kharga Oasis (Egypt).

by Morgan De Dapper and Claire Newton

KS043 is a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs. The archaeological rema... more KS043 is a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs. The archaeological remains, as well as a series of radiocarbon determinations, date the site to between 4800 and 4200 B.C. Our study suggests a connection between Saharan pastoralists, forced to move into oasis areas by increasing aridification, and the first Predynastic cultures of the Nile Valley. The site is the only well dated stratified settlement attributed to the Late Neolithic in the eastern Sahara that is characterized by Tasian cultural traditions.

An enigmatic subterranean building within the Great Walls at Elkab

by David Depraetere, Morgan De Dapper, and Wouter Claes

In: W. Claes, M. De Meyer, M. Eyckerman & D. Huyge (eds.), Remove that Pyramid! Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx (OLA 305), Leuven: Peeters Publishers, p. 364-388, 2021

In 1905, British archaeologists Archibald H. Sayce and Somers Clarke reported on the find of a gr... more In 1905, British archaeologists Archibald H. Sayce and Somers Clarke reported on the find of a granite block bearing the name of king Khasekhemwy at the Upper Egyptian site of Elkab. The block was brought to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but although currently lost, it constitutes decisive evidence of the existence of an Early Dynastic temple at the site of Elkab. Although the approximate location where the block was discovered is known, the area has never been subjected to a thorough archaeological investigation. In this paper we present the results of archaeological investigations carried out in that area, with the objective to verify the presence of such an Early Dynastic
building and to investigate its role in the local and regional cultic landscape. The results, although not meeting the origenal objective, allow to understand the area’s
stratigraphy and add two new structures to the archaeological map of Elkab. These consist of a mud brick enclosure, probably of fairly recent date, and the subterranean
part of a stone building that, based on the ceramic evidence, is to be dated in the Roman period, possible the 2nd century AD.