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RETRACTION NOTE: LONG TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY, TREND AND DROUGHT OCCURRENCE: THE CASE OF LOKA ABAYA, ETHIOPIA

Central European Journal of Geography and Sustainable Development
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Tesemash Abebe Makuria, Leta Bekele Gudina   +1 more
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Early Makuria Research Project. Beads and pendants from the tumulus cemetery in Nubian Tanqasi, Sudan [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018
An assemblage of 1687 beads and pendants was recovered from the excavation of five tumuli (16, 23, 46, 52, 179) in the cemetery of Tanqasi in Sudan. The assemblage is dominated by faience beads (n=920). The remaining beads and pendants are made of glass (
Joanna Then-Obłuska
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The High-Resolution Archaeology of Shared Courtyards at Old Dongola (14th-16th Century a.d., Sudan): an Intensive Approach to Domestic Open Spaces. [PDF]

J Field Archaeol
final_author-7599262020/37/N/HS3/01400Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city. European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmeHistories Imprinted on Floors.
Wyżgoł M, Nasreldein M, Ryś-Jarmużek A.   +2 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Christianization of Nubia

Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2022
Out of all the regions and cultures of the Christian East, Nubia remains the one least studied, with the smallest number of researchers taking upon themselves the task of studying its political history, its Church and its archaeology.
Yu. M. Kobishchanov
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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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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan

Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1232-1245, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
wiley   +1 more source

Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia

Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
wiley   +1 more source

Monks on the move? An assessment of mobility at the medieval Nubian monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (ca. 680–1,275 CE)

Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 862-880, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The location of Ghazali monastery away from the Nile valley within the relatively isolated environs of the Bayuda desert presents a landscape suggestive of mobility toward the monastery by those who chose to reside there as monks. To assess this potentiality, a sample of 37 individuals from the monastic cemetery (Cemetery 2) were analysed for ...
Robert J. Stark, Joanna A. Ciesielska, Artur Obłuski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Isotopic Assessment of Makurian Monastic Diet at the Medieval Nubian Monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (Ca. 680–1,275 CE)

Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1363-1382, December 2021., 2021
In contrast to contemporaneous Byzantine and Egyptian textual accounts, little is known about medieval Nubian monastic diets. Femur samples from 30 monks interred at Ghazali monastery (occupied ca. 680–1,275 CE), Sudan were examined for δ13Ccol and δ15N.
R. J. Stark, J. A. Ciesielska, A. Obłuski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan

Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 227-246, April 2021., 2021
Outstanding garnet beads were found recently in an elite tumulus dated to the fourth century AD and located at the cemetery of Hagar el‐Beida in the Upper Nubian Nile Valley region. Whereas contacts of Northeast Africa with South Asia have just been proven through analysis of glass beads found in Nubia and dating to the time of intensive Indian Ocean ...
J. Then‐Obłuska, H. A. Gilg, U. Schüssler, B. Wagner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source