The earliest neolithic farming in combination with herding in egypt is known in the fayum which is a large oasis with a permanent lake in the egyptian western desert farming and herding started at the transition from the epipalaeolithic to neolithic in the 6th millennium calbc owing to the arrival of levantine domesticates the neolithic farmer herders in the fayum relied heavily on hunting . The neolithic farmer herders in the fayum relied heavily on hunting and fishing which had been the major subsistence activities since the epipalaeolithic period there are no remains of substantial dwellings to indicate that these farmer herders lived a sedentary way of life previous researchers have thus asserted that the fayum people were nomadic and moved seasonally noriyuki shirais . The archaeology of the first farmer herders in egypt new insights into the fayum epipalaeolithic and neolithic amsterdam university press archaeological studies leiden university press by shirai noriyuki 2012 taschenbuch isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The archaeology of the first farmer herders in egypt new insights into the fayum epipalaeolithic and neolithic amsterdam university press archaeological studies leiden university press by noriyuki shirai 2012 08 15 noriyuki shirai isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The archaeology of the first farmer herders in egypt new insights into the fayum epipalaeolithic and neolithic amsterdam university press archaeological studies leiden university press nov 13 2020 posted by enid blyton media text id 218493d2f online pdf ebook epub library large oasis with a permanent lake in the egyptian western desert the archaeology of the first farmer herders in egypt new