A Kerma Ancien Cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach
Excavations at site H29
By (author) Derek A. Welsby
Hardback (Published)
(August 2018)
ISBN: 9781784919313
8.07 x 11.46 inches
Price: $116.00
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This volume is the final report on the excavations of a Kerma Ancien cemetery discovered by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society during its Northern Dongola Reach Survey conducted between 1993 and 1997. It is one of the very few cemeteries of this date to have been fully excavated and provides interesting data on funerary culture as practised in a rural environment, to be compared with the extensive information available from investigations of the cemetery associated with the metropolis of Kerma 100km to the north. It includes a range of specialist reports on all categories of artefacts recovered as well as on the physical anthropology, archaeobotany and archaeozoology.
1. Introduction ;
2. The Excavations ;
3. The Ceramic Finds at H29 ;
4. The Small Finds ;
5. Animal Deposits ;
6. The Physical Anthropology ;
7. Plants as Grave Goods: Microbotanical Remains (Phytoliths) from the ‘White Deposits’ in the Graves ;
8. Charcoal and Wood ;
9. Discussion ;
Bibliography ;
Arabic Summary
Derek A. Welsby has directed excavations and surveys in Sudan since 1982. These have included all-period surveys in the Northern Dongola Reach and at the Fourth Cataract as a component of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project. Major excavations have been undertaken within the capital of the medieval kingdom of Alwa at Soba East and in the Kushite town and cemetery at Kawa. Surveys have also been undertaken along Sudan’s first railway between Wadi Halfa and Kerma dating to the late 19th century.
- By (author) Derek A. Welsby
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Archaeology by the Fourth Nile Cataract: Survey and Excavations on the left bank of the river and on the islands between Amri and Kirbekan, Volume I
Landscape, toponyms and oral history and the people, their settlements, architecture and land use before the Merowe Dam
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