The Elite Meroitic Necropolis of Sai Island, Part II: Bioarchaeological Interpretations

Summary

Five Meroitic necropoli have been identified on Sai Island, located in northern Sudan between the 2nd and 3rd Nile cataracts. Recent archaeological excavations conducted by the French Unit of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums have focused on a small elite Meroitic necropolis (300BC-350AD). Although the archaeology of this necropolis is complicated by interments from other periods and looting, here we present the initial analyses of the Meroitic elite skeletal remains in concert with their contextual information, including demography, paleopathology, and stable nitrogen, carbon and oxygen isotope analyses, in an effort to reconstruct the life histories of this segment of the Sai Island Meroitic population.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Life and Death in Ancient Nubia: Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Perspectives   •
• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 15520