Ceramic manufacturing techniques and cultural traditions in Nubia from the 8th to the 3rd millennium BC : examples from Sai Island /
In Sudan the first ceramic containers appeared at the beginning of the 9th millennium BC, with the earliest dates c. 8700 BC from Sorourab 2, in Central Sudan, and c. 8600 BC from the district of Amara West, in Northern Sudan. This work presents a comprehensive critical analysis of diverse ceramic a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Summertown, Oxford :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,
2017.
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Colección: | Cambridge monographs in African archaeology ;
96. Access archaeology. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword ; Introduction ; 1. Nubia and its cultural sequences between the 8th and the 3rd millennium BC: Khartoum Variant, Abkan and Pre-Kerma ; 2. Sai Island: archaeological research and cultural sequence ; 3. Ceramic productions on Sai Island: analysis of the macroscopic data ; 4. Archaeometric analysis ; 5. Comparing chaînes operatoires: continuity and discontinuity in the ceramic assemblages of Sai Island ; 6. The Sai Island sequence and the Nubian and Sudanese traditions ; Bibliography.