| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Nubia, Sudan and Sudanic Africa -- Hunters, fishers and gatherers (c. 10,000-5,000 bc) -- The neolithic : developing complexity and expanding worlds (c. 5000-3000 bc) -- Kerma and bronze age Kush -- The Kushite revival : the xxvth dynasty and the kingdom of Napata -- Meroitic Kush (c. 300 bc-350 ad) -- Post-Meroitic transitions (c.350 ad-550) -- Medieval Nubia (c.500 ad-1500) -- Post-medieval : Sudan and Islam (c.1500 ad-1900) |
| Summary |
Annotation Thiscutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most spectacular archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa is examined here by an author with extensive experience in this field. The geographical range of the book extends through the Nubian north, the Middle Nile Basin, and includes what has become the modern Sudan. Using period-based chapters, the region's long-term history is traced and a potential for a more broadly framed and inclusive 'historical archaeology' of Sudan's more recent past is explored. This text breaks new ground in its move beyond the Egyptocentric and more traditional culture-histories of Nubia, often isolated in Africanist research, and it relocates the early civilizations and their archaeology within their Sudanic Africa context. This is a captivating study of the area's history, and will inform and enthral all students and researchers of Archaeology and Egyptology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Sudan
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Archeologische vondsten.
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| SUBJECT |
Sudan -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129603
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| Subject |
Sudan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
020348276X |
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9780203482766 |
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9786610048526 |
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6610048525 |
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9780415369879 |
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0415369878 |
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9780415369886 |
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0415369886 |
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9781134200870 |
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1134200870 |
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9781134200825 |
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113420082X |
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9781134200863 |
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1134200862 |
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1280048522 |
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9781280048524 |
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