International Science Community Association International Research Journal of Biological Sciences 2278 - 3202 5 9 2016 09 10 Plant Remains from the Holocene of Sheikh El-Obeiyid Area (Farafra Oasis, Egypt), 7730-5360 b.p. 22 31 EN Subhadra Subhadarsini 1 P.G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Vani vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Sandeep Kumar Nayak 2 P.G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Vani vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Kunja Bihari Satapathy* 3 P.G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Vani vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India M. Udayakumar 1 Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai – 600 030, Tamil Nadu, India T.* Sekar 2 Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai – 600 030, Tamil Nadu, India Analyn* Anzano Cabras* 1 College of Arts and Sciences, University of Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines Jürgen Wiesner 2 Dresdener Ring 11, D-38444 Wolfsburg, Germany Mohamed Ahmed Fadl 1 Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt and Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Taif University, Taif, KSA > Research Article 2016 8 29 2016 09 10 Egypt is a hyperarid region of the Eastern Sahara of Africa, the oases of the Western Desert form green patches. In the Holocene of Farafra Oasis (7730-5360b.p.) humid climate with dense vegetation and herding animals were recorded. Archaeobotanical and Archaeological evidences of the Sheikh El-Obeiyid area in the westnorth of Farafra Oasis, three active occupation periods in Sheikh El-Obeiyid Neolithic site were identified, the first period extended from 7530–6166 b.p. in El-Bahr Playa, and the second period extended from 6320–6170 b.p. in Valley 1 and Bir El-Obeiyid Playa and the third period from 5790–5360 b.p. in Valley 1 and Valley 3. Identified plant species indicated a moist conditions of small lakes with their surrounding Tamarix nilotica, Juncus sp., Cyperus sp, and Samolus valerandii; in the Wadi El-Obeiyid and its tributaries Acacia, Tamarix aphylla and Ficus trees forms a desert savanna vegetation. The recorded types of vegetation proved that there are obvious effects of monsoon summer and Mediterranean winter climate on the vegetation of the Holocene in Sheikh El-Obeiyid area. There is a similarity of archaeological features between the Sheikh El-Obeiyid and the nearby Hidden Valley basin, both of them were active in the seventh millennium b.p. Copyright@ International Science Community Association