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Author Brass, Michael Jonathan

Title Reinterpreting chronology and society at the mortuary complex of Jebel Moya (Sudan) / Michael Jonathan Brass
Published Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology ; 92
Cambridge monographs in African archaeology (Archaeopress) ; 92.
Contents Foreword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The evolution of complexity theory and mortuary studies; Chapter 3: Ceramic assemblages and a revised chronology for Jebel Moya; Chapter 4: Implications of occupational traces and spatial use of the site over time; Chapter 5: The bioanthropology of Jebel Moya; Chapter 6: Social patterning in the Jebel Moya mortuary complex; Chapter 7: Situating Jebel Moya's cemetery within a wider Sudanese context; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix I: Burial distribution map of Jebel Moya; Appendix II: New Register of Graves for Jebel Moya; Appendix III: British Museum sherd trays; Appendix IV: Burials with illustrated pottery sherds; Appendix V: Foreign objects from Jebel Moya at the Griffiths Institute
Summary Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan) is the largest known pastoral cemetery in sub-Saharan Africa with more than 3100 excavated human burials. This research revises our understanding of Jebel Moya and its context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF cover (Archaeopress Web site, viewed on September 27, 2016)
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Sudan -- Jabal Mayyah Site
Cemeteries -- Sudan -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Cemeteries
Excavations (Archaeology)
Sudan
Sudan -- Jabal Mayyah Site
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1784914320
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