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Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set)
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020 The article presents new material excavated during the last season, discusses production technology and surface treatment. Recently excavated material from el-Zuma throws new light on pottery production and its typology, necessitating thus a reexamination of the already known vessel types.
Mahmoud El-Tayeb +11 more
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Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations. [PDF]
PLoS Genet, 2017 Northeast Africa has a long history of human habitation, with fossil-finds from the earliest anatomically modern humans, and housing ancient civilizations.
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Vessel Distribution at the Site
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 An essential aspect in the examination of this pottery assemblage is the distribution of vessels inside the graves. An overview of this distribution is presented in Chapter 7.18, where the vessels are presented in their archaeological context (see p. 319,
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Metal Alloys, Metal Deposits and Workshop Centres
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 In a discussion about metal and metallurgy in Ancient Nubia, we cannot ignore Egypt and the influence of Mesopotamian metallurgy in Egypt. Knowledge of Nile Valley metalworking came from the study of smelting scenes from Egyptian tombs.
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Pottery in the Funerary Context, Chronology and State of Archaeological Research—An Overview
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 The Nubians believed in the afterlife, and that death was a journey to a new life in another world, and that it was necessary to equip the deceased for this journey (MahmoudEl-Tayeb 2012, 80).Mortuary practices had twomain aspects: a social dimension ...
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Metalwork: Methods and Analysis
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 A number of metal artefacts discovered during the excavations required various conservation treatments. Their state of preservation varied depending on their particular depositional environment and on the metal from which the object or element was made ...
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The Function of Vessels from the El-Zuma Repertoire
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 As mentioned in Chapter 2, the function of the El-Zuma pottery should be analysed from both social and religious perspectives, hence we need to examine its function in domestic life and also its symbolic function in the realm of ritual and burial ...
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Faunal remains from the fortified settlement aroundthe church at Banganarti in Sudan [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 The assemblage of faunal remains from Banganarti subjected to archaeozoological examinationcounted 4178 bones and fragments of bones. They represented contexts recorded withinthe fortified settlement around the church in Banganarti, attributed to two ...
Marta Osypińska
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Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 The El-Zuma tumuli yielded a wealth of burial equipment made of various raw materials. Unfortunately, many of these items had been badly damaged by environmental conditions and displaced by robber activity (see Volume i, Chapters 3 and 5).
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The Conception of the Archaeological Park in El-Zuma
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 On the strength of decision 27 com 8C.31, taken by the unescoWorldHeritageCommittee in 2003, “GebelBarkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region” became the first cultural heritage property in Sudan to be inscribed on the World Heritage List (C i, ii, iii ...
Jolanta Juchniewicz
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