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Title:Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene Hunters and Gatherers in the Eastern Sudan
Author:Marks, Anthony E.ISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:African Archaeological Review
Volume:5
Pages:79-92
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:hunter-gatherers
archaeology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Anthropology and Archaeology
External link:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01117084
Abstract:Excavations by the joint University of Khartoum/Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) Butana Project in the area just north of Khashm el Girba on the upper Atbara River (Sudan) have uncovered a series of preceramic and early ceramic occupations by hunters and gatherers which date from c. 10,000 bp to c. 6200 bp. The earlier sites show no direct relations with those of similar age in the northern Sudan, while the later, early ceramic sites show only minor similarities with contemporary occurrences in the central Nile Valley. Thus, it appears that the upper Atbara River Valley played no role in the development of the Khartoum Mesolithic and that Nilotic influences were late reaching the eastern Sudan. Bibliogr., sum. also in French.
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