Title:

The First Notes on the Second Khartoum Mesolithic Cemetery at Jebel Sabaloka (Sudan)

Subtitle:

Archaeologia Polona Vol. 58 (2020)

Creator:

Varadzinová, Lenka ; Varadzin, Ladislav

Publisher:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2020

Description:

ill. ; 24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Communal burial grounds ; early Holocene hunter-gatherers ; Early Khartoum culture ; Sixth Nile Cataract ; Sudan

Abstract:

The site of Fox Hill (SBK.W-20) constitutes the second locality in the Sixth Nile Cataract region where a large communal burial ground of Early Khartoum hunter-gatherers was partially uncovered. In several aspects, this cemetery resembles in its characteristics the Early Khartoum burial ground explored between 2012 and 2015 at the site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60), located some 4 km to the north east. The co-occurrence of these burial grounds with intensively occupied coeval settlements as well as the characteristics of the burial rite enable us to interpret these complex sites not only as mere places of life and death, but also as centres of collective identity based on social memory

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Varadzinová, L., Varadzin, L., Crevecoeur, I., Kapustka, K., McCool, J.-P. and Sůvová, Z. 2019. Výzkum pravěkého osídlení v pohoří Sabaloka v centrálním Súdánu: poznatky z výzkumné sezóny 2018, Pražské egyptologické studie 22: 43–53
Varadzinová, L., Varadzin, L., Ambrose, S. H., Crevecoeur, I., Havelková, P., Juřičková, L., Kapustka, K., Pacina, J., Pokorný, P., Řídký, J. and Wang, H. in prep. The early Holocene funerary behaviour in central Sudan

Relation:

Archaeologia Polona

Volume:

58

Start page:

121

End page:

133

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

0066-5924 ; doi:10.23858/APa58.2020.007

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 357 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 358 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 356 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license

Terms of use:

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Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open