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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467955403321

Autore

Armelagos George J.

Titolo

Life and death on the Nile : a bioethnography of three ancient Nubian communitiesc / / George J. Armelagos and Dennis P. Van Gerven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8130-5319-6

0-8130-5286-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

939/.78

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Nubia

Excavations (Archaeology) - Sudan

Electronic books.

Nubia History

Nubia Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Life and death on the Nile -- Skulls, races, and evolution -- Health and disease: the children -- Growth and development -- Health and disease: the adults -- Case studies -- A bioethnography.

Sommario/riassunto

George J. Armelagos spent thirty years at various sites in Sudan searching for ancient Nubian civilizations that gave rise to what we now know as the upper Nile civilizations. Most of these sites are now underwater, due to being inundated when the Aswan Dam was built on the Upper Nile and flooded the ancient cities of Wadi Halfa and Kulubnarti. While hundreds of articles have been written about the research at these sites, this monograph, where Armelagos invited his former student Dennis Van Gerven to collaborate with him, represents the first attempt to explore all of the biocultural relationships between the villages, the people, and the region.