EARLYMAKURIA RESEARCH PROJECT. EL-ZUMA EXCAVATIONS. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE SECOND SEASON, 2007
EARLYMAKURIA RESEARCH PROJECT. EL-ZUMA EXCAVATIONS. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE SECOND SEASON, 2007
Author(s): Mahmoud El-TayebSubject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Sudan; El-Zuma; fourth cataract; Early Makuria Research Project; tumuli cemetery
Summary/Abstract: The Early Makuria Research Project is a comprehensive program created to study a significant period in Nubian history — a period of transformation, cultural changes and social evolution that has long gone unrecognized by archaeologists and researchers alike. The study was conceived primarily to examine the archaeological remains of the period in question (4th–7th century AD) originating from the area between the Third and Fourth Nile Cataracts. Three seasons of fieldwork have been carried out to date, the present season being the second in El-Zuma. It was devoted to further investigation of the cemetery there. In the first season, the burials were classified into three types. In the second season, five more tumuli were explored, one each from Type I and II, T.5 and T.25 respectively, and three representing the smallest group, Type III.
Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: XIX
- Page Range: 467-479
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
