Research Papers - A Gift of Geology

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Research Papers
Most of my research has led to publication in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings or elsewhere.

The papers listed below can all be found on my page at Academia.edu


C.D. Reader, ‘A Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis, with Implications for the Development of the Site’, Archaeometry 43:1, (2001), 149-159.

C.D. Reader, ‘Giza Before the Fourth Dynasty’, Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum 9, (2002), 5-21.
            
C.D. Reader, ‘On Pyramid Causeways’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 90 (2004), 63-71.
            
C.D. Reader, ‘Response to Vandecruys 2006, The Sphinx: Dramatising Data…and Dating’, PalArch 2:1, (2006).
          
C.D. Reader, ‘Further considerations on development at Giza before the Fourth Dynasty’, PalArch 3:2, (2006).
          
C.D. Reader,  ‘The Geology of Abusir’, In M Barta et al, Abusir XIII: The Tomb Complex of the Vizier Qar…(2009)  2-6.

C.D. Reader, ‘The Netjerikhet Stela and the Early Dynastic Cult of Ra’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 100 (2014), 421-435.

C.D. Reader,   'The Meidum Pyramid', Journal of the American Research Centre in Egypt, 51 (2015), 203-224.
          
C.D. Reader, ‘A Potentially Significant Dimension Recorded on an Old Kingdom Papyrus from Saqqara’, Journal of ancient Egyptian Architecture, 2 (2017), 9-17.
          
C.D. Reader, 'An Early Dynastic Ritual Landscape in North Saqqara: An Inheritance from Abydos?', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 103 (2017).
          
C.D. Reader, ‘The Age of the Sphinx and the Development of the Giza Necropolis’, Current Research in Egyptology II, BAR International Series 1380, Oxford.
          
C.D. Reader, ‘The geomorphological evidence for the Early Dynastic origins of the Great Sphinx of Giza: a response to Drs. Lehner and Hawass.’    
Proceedings of the Fourth British Egyptology Congress, 7-9 September 2018, p108-123.
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