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

Varadzinová, Lenka; Varadzin, Ladislav

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Title: The First Notes on the Second Khartoum Mesolithic Cemetery at Jebel Sabaloka (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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