FOURTH CATARACT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY BETWEEN EL-AR (SHEMKHIYA) AND EL-GAMAMIYA (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007)
FOURTH CATARACT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY BETWEEN EL-AR (SHEMKHIYA) AND EL-GAMAMIYA (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007)

Summary/Abstract: The archaeological survey of the region between El-Ar (Shemkhiya) and El-Gamamiya, conducted under the auspices of the PCMA, included the recording of 174 new sites. Part of the survey covered an area where earlier reconnaissance had located some box graves and tumuli cemeteries. The biggest group is constituted by tumuli cemeteries or single graves, provisionally connected with the Kerma Horizon. The discoveries included one site dated to the Paleolithic and a Neolithic complex, including the biggest settlement known so far (El-Ar 13) and a presumed cemetery, located on the banks and inside the dry old valley of the Nile between El-Ar (El-Al) and Umm Saffaya. Test excavations were carried out on five sites (reported on separately): Gamamiya 19 and 55, El-Ar 1 and El-Ar 7 and 29. A petroglyph team discovered and documented two big rock art galleries with hundreds of rock drawings, from the Neolithic through modern times, at El-Gamamiya 67 and Keheili 5, as well as several smaller sites (El-Gamamiya 75, Keheili 14) and single drawings (reported on separately).

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