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Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018 [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 Tanqasi village lies on the left side of the river Nile, about 17 km downstream from Merowe city. A large tumuli field is located some kilometers southeast of the village toward the edge of the Bayuda Desert.
Maciej Wyżgoł, Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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Spondylolysis in ancient Nubian skeletal populations
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 876-885, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract A comprehensive study of spinal health in ancient Nubia has not been achieved to date. This study is a component of a larger survey of spinal health. It presents a comparative analysis of spondylolysis, with the aim of providing an insight into the quality of life, environmental and socio‐political stresses faced by individuals in ancient ...
Samantha Tipper +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 517-531, May/June 2023., 2023 Abstract The interactions between mobile pastoralists and semi‐sedentary Nilotic foraging groups in the Middle Nile Valley had long‐term implications for the development of social complexity as seen in the ancient African kingdom of Kerma. This study presents the results of the zooarcheological analysis of animal remains from two sites in the 4th ...
Shayla Monroe +2 more
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Institutional amnesia pushes fish spawning aggregations towards extirpation
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 489-495, April 2023., 2023 Abstract How institutions create and manage knowledge has been explored in the context of management and business science. However, little effort has been made to understand how, and why, these institutions forget what works or does not work, and no research in this field has been conducted in conservation or fisheries science.
Stuart Fulton
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Lead isotope analysis of Meroitic period glass from Nubia with LA‐MC‐ICP‐MS
Archaeometry, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 1148-1167, October 2022., 2022 Abstract Analytical studies of glass found at sites in Nubia (ancient Sudan) have shown the variety of glass present during ancient times. This study examines Meroitic period (c.350 bce–350 ce) glass from Nubia: here categorized as low‐lead and high‐lead.
Juliet V Spedding
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Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1255-1271, December 2021., 2021 The mobility of the Blemmyes between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea coast, and their skill in trading, are well attested in the literary sources and in the archaeological record. While they operated mainly in the Eastern Desert, their cemeteries, dated to the mid‐fourth century ce, were located in the strategic region of the Dodekaschoinos of Lower ...
J. Then‐Obłuska, L. Dussubieux
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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 +3 more
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The Deposition and Alteration History of the Northeast Syrtis Major Layered Sulfates
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 124, Issue 7, Page 1743-1782, July 2019., 2019 Abstract Ancient stratigraphy on Isidis Basin's western margin records the history of water on early Mars. Noachian units are overlain by layered, basaltic composition sedimentary rocks that are enriched in polyhydrated sulfates and capped by more resistant units.
D. P. Quinn, B. L. Ehlmann
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Effects of protection on large‐bodied reef fishes in the western Indian Ocean
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 4, August 2025.Abstract Predatory and large‐bodied coral reef fishes have fundamental roles in the functioning and biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems, but their populations are declining, largely due to overexploitation in fisheries. These fishes include sharks, groupers, Humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and Green Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum).
Melita Samoilys +4 more
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