Post-Meroitic cemetery at the Khor Shambat site in Sudan

• Authors: Bobrowski, Przemysław , Chłodnicki, Marek , Jórdeczka, Maciej , Stanaszek, Łukasz M

Abstracts

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Archaeological research at the Khor Shambat site located in Omdurman in central Sudan has been conducted since 2012, when a team of scientists from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences (Poznań) launched a salvage exploration of a Neolithic site and cemetery damaged by road construction. Research is now conducted within the scope of a grant from the National Science Centre, Poland (No. 2015/17/D/HS3/01492). Three seasons of fieldwork since 2016 have focused on the extensive prehistoric settlement spanning nearly 4000 years, from the early Mesolithic to the late Neolithic. The site turned out to be attractive not only for Mesolithic hunters-gatherers and Neolithic shepherds, but also as a burial place for the Meroitic and post-Meroitic inhabitants of the region. A survey of about 1% of the surface of the Khor Shambat site (KSH 1) resulted in the discovery of 66 graves; 12 of these are probably post-Meroitic, and of these three presented a rich and interesting array of burial goods, including imports from the Far East. At the same time, KSH 1 is one of the southernmost post-Meroitic cemeteries.

Keywords

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Khor Shambat; Post-Meroitic; cemeteries; graves; anthropological analysis; burial goods

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 29(2)
• Pages: 653-676

Dates

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2020-12-19

Contributors

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Bobrowski, Przemysław

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Chłodnicki, Marek

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Jórdeczka, Maciej

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Stanaszek, Łukasz M

Identifiers

DOI

10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam29.2.27