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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794647703321

Titolo

Current perspectives in Sudanese and Nubian archaeology : a collection of papers presented at the 2018 Sudan Studies Research Conference, Cambridge / / edited by Rennan Lemos, Samantha Tipper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-78969-898-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 118 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Access Archaeology

Disciplina

962.401

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Sudan

Sudan Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology: Scholarship Past and Present -- Libations and Luxury: the Use of Pilgrim Flasks in Nubia -- Understanding the Kerma Amulets: the Ladder and Baboon Amulet-Beads -- A-Group Nubian Glyptic: Analysis and Preliminary Results -- The Dead and their Tools. A First Approach to the Relationship Between Macro-Lithic Tools and Skeletons from the Necropolis ofMahal Teglinos (Eastern Sudan) -- Human Population History from an East African Perspective: the Forgotten Land -- List of Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together papers presented at the 2nd Sudan Studies Research Conference, held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2018. The papers collected here focus on early administrative and mortuary material culture in the Nile valley and adjacent areas.