Unearthing 6th-century CE occupation on the fringes of the Nile Valley. Closing the PalaeoAffad Project in the Affad Basin (Sudan)

Authors :: Marta Osypińska
Justyna Kokolus
Paweł Wiktorowicz
Marzena Cendrowska
Roman Łopaciuk
Marek Chłodnicki
Beata Piotrowska
Jakub Sobko
Huyam Khalid Madani
Source :: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, Vol 31, Pp 375-384 (2022)
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: University of Warsaw Press, 2022.
Abstract: Presentation of the results of the last season of research in the Affad Basin (Northern Province, Sudan). Recent discoveries focused on the most distant archaeological sites known in the microregion, remote some 7 km from the current river. Explored features revealed cultural affinities with pastoralism at the semi-desert environment dated to the period between Meroitic and Makuria kingdoms.

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