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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814370603321

Autore

Edwards David N

Titolo

The Nubian past : an archaeology of the Sudan / / David N. Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-20086-2

1-134-20087-0

1-280-04852-2

0-203-48276-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

939/.78

Soggetti

Archaeology - Sudan

Sudan Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-338) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Nubia, the Sudan and Sudanic Africa; Hunters, fishers and gatherers (c.10,000-5000 BC); The Neolithic: developing complexity and expanding worlds (c.5000-3000 BC); Kerma and Bronze Age Kush; The Kushite Revival: the XXVth Dynasty and the kingdom of Napata; Meroitic Kush (c.300 BC-AD 350); Post-Meroitic transitions (c.AD 350-550); Medieval Nubia (c.AD 500-1500); Post-medieval Sudan and Islam (c.AD 1500-1900); Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most spectacular archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa is examined here by an author with extensive experience in this field.The geographical range of the book extends through the Nubian north, the Middle Nile Basin, and includes what has become the modern Sudan. Using period-based chapters, the region