The Gilf Kebir is a sandstone plateau in the southwestern corner of Egypt.

The aim of archaeological field work in this area is to investigate prehistoric landuse systems of hunter-gatherer and herding societies in different phases of occupation. Prehistoric occupations are proved in the early and middle holocene between 8.000 and 3.000 BC.

The satellite images are used to map different types of archaeological sites in order to examine their relations in space and time.

Development and Dynamic of the Abu Muharik Dune Belt

For the first time orthoreferenced ASTER-Satellite images and extracted Digital Terrain Models make a detailed area-wide detection of the surface morphology possible. With this information and with the field data (see marked waypoints), the genesis and development of the remarkable narrow dune belt, which has an extension of more than 700 km, will be reconstructed.