Africa: Sudan (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nuri, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in northern Sudan is the primary burial site for the Nubian Pharaohs beginning with Taharqa of the 25th Dynasty. Thoroughly looted in antiquity, the site was excavated by George Reisner, Director of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine...
Assessing Mobility Among the Medieval Makurian Individuals Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Old Dongola, Sudan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Makuria, in what is today Sudan, Old Dongola was a central location of administration and culture; Old Dongola was also the seat of a bishopric. Such factors would have made Old Dongola a key location for mobility, with various pull factors from economic, social, and religious, including monastic. Numerous...
Between the Nile and the Desert: the Middle Stone Age of Kerma Region, Northern Sudan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nile valley, its associated drainage system, and the adjacent Sahara are thought to have been part of the Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) dispersal routes out of Africa during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Building on the pioneering prehistoric work of Marks and colleagues in the early 1960s in northern Sudan, we present the results of the 2019 and...
Cattle Production and Strategic Meat Distribution in Egypt and Nubia (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Breaking the Mold: A Consideration of the Impacts and Legacies of Richard W. Redding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Richard Reddings‘s (1992) model developed at the site of Kom el-Hisn offered a means of understanding strategies by which ancient societies could strategically raise animals for the purpose of provisioning communities in multiple locations. This model proved useful for understanding meat provisioning...
Challenges and Successes of Mapping Royal Tombs and a Newly Discovered Mound Feature Using a Total Station at Nuri, Sudan (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of Arizona and Pima Community College collaborated to initiate an archaeological expedition to Nuri, Sudan in January 2018. The site, looted in antiquity and excavated by George Reisner from 1916 through 1918, includes 56 mud brick pyramids and 72 known tombs. One...
Community Resilience and Connection on the Middle Nile: The Es-Selim R4 Archaeology Project in Sudan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The community archaeology project at the Kerma settlement site of Es-Selim R4 (ESR4) seeks to investigate how environmental, social, and political change intersect to affect a provincial population center over 1000 years. The site is located in the Northern Dongola Reach, where the floodplain was braided with Nile palaeochannels, supporting a network of...
Genetic Variation and Sociocultural Dynamics in Two Early Christian Cemeteries from Kulubnarti (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient DNA in Service of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Skeletal remains from two contemporaneous Early Christian Period (550–800 CE) cemeteries at Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia have been the subject of a decades-long biocultural research program. Craniometric and dental analyses have suggested biological similarity between members of the "R" and "S" cemetery communities, while analyses of health and...
Legitimizing Nearness: Negotiating Identities in the Spatial Design of 25th Dynasty Nubian Cemeteries (2018)
Ancient Egypt is characterized as a highly centralized and dominating state. However, following the disintegration of the New Kingdom in the 11th century BC, division of state and conquests by foreign rulers ushered in a period of economic decline and political instability. The fracturing of dominion continued until the 8th century BC, when the Nubian kingdom of Kush unified Upper and Lower Egypt into the geographically largest empire since the New Kingdom. The Nubian pharaohs began...
Micromorphological Approaches to Daily Life and Cultural Interaction at Uronarti Fortress, Sudan (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2012, the Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project has investigated cultural interactions and daily life along the Egypt-Kush border in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2050–1650 BCE). In January 2019, eight micromorphological samples were collected from intact floor sequences and mudbrick walls from within the island fortress on Uronarti. These samples span the two...
Monks and Makurians: Tracing Biology and Mobility at Medieval Ghazali (ca. 680 to 1275 CE) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in the Wadi Abu Dom, approximately 15 kilometers from the Nile in modern Sudan, the medieval Makurian site of Ghazali (ca. 680–1270 CE) was the location of a large monastic community with associated lay settlement nearby. As part of ongoing research at Ghazali, individuals from the four cemeteries identified at this site were sampled for 87Sr/86Sr...
MSA Technology in Kerma, Sudan: The Development of Fieldwork Methods for Data Acquisition in Basalt Outcrop Settings (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the primary centers for understanding Anatomically Modern Human dispersal is the Nile Valley. In this paper, we present preliminary results from a survey and MSA lithic collection during a second field season to take place in the Kerma region, northern Sudan, during January 2023....
Public Outreach and Community Engagement with the Tombos Archaeological Project in Sudan. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Bioarchaeology in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Public outreach and community engagement has become a larger focus of efforts in recent years for the Tombos Archaeological Project. Field seasons regularly include public lectures for adults in the community and children at the Tombos elementary school. We produced a pamphlet with information on the Tombos site (English/Arabic). We also...
A Quantitative Analysis of the Association between Pottery Motifs and Communal Identity during the Third Millennium BCE at Abu Fatma, Sudan (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hinterland communities are important arenas for understanding community-level cultural and social development at the periphery of state power. In such communities where writing is not present, symbols become important vehicles for the transmission of identity information. Ceramic motif preference among individuals within these communities is one such mode...
The Relationship between Knapping Technology and Stone Use in the MSA Landscape of Northern Butana in Sudan (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Variability: A Reassessment of Its Meaning, Afforded Range, and the Relation to Process" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022 we recorded more than 40 variously dense stone artifact concentrations of the Middle Stone Age in northern Butana between the Nile Valley and the Atbara paleolake in east-central Sudan. In general, the entire region between the Upper Egypt and the Ethiopian Highlands has seen very little...
UAVs, Photogrammetry, and Mortuary Landscapes: A Study of Napatan Cemeteries (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the broad implications and applications of UAV or drone surveys to archaeological data sets, through a detailed case study in Nubian archaeology. The author employs drones to map and model Napatan royal necropolises, dating to the 8th century B.C.E. and located in modern day Sudan, using photogrammetry. The primary research objective of...