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Smith, Grafton Elliot; Jones, Frederic Wood: Anatomical report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18102#0035
ANATOMICAL REPORT.
In the first Bulletin we gave an account of the earlier stages of the
work at Shellal and the neighbouring islands El Hesa and El Biga,
and expressed the opinion that the enormous collections of anthropo-
logical material already brought to light, especially on the islands,
would provide sufficient field-work for the whole season. Since then,
however, the discovery in rapid succession of a large series of cemeteries
higher up the river, containing more important human remains, often
of a perishable nature, made it imperative to leave the first site and
follow the archaeologists as they went south.
We propose first of all to give an account of what was done with
the great mass of material in the cemeteries numbered 2, 3, 5, and 7 in
the neighbourhood of Shellal, and a brief sketch of the most prominent
results of our work there. Then we shall describe our progress further
south.
Without expanding this Report to an undue size, it is possible to
give only the briefest notes on the contents of each cemetery. Where-
ever no mention is made of any cemetery it must be understood
that no human remains were found. The inclusion of cranial measure-
ments and the explanation of their significance would have more than
doubled the length of this narrative, which already exceeds the size of
our first Bulletin, although it is little more than an inventory of our
material and an account of the conditions under which we studied it in
the field.
Whenever it has been possible to give actual measurements of height
—not mere estimations—we have done so, because the stature is the
most obvious physical character that can be expressed in figures.
Cemetery No. 7.
The cemetery (No. 7) on the mainland' at Shellal contained about
one thousand bodies. Of these, 108 belong to group a (late prehistoric
and protodynastic); 58 are included in group b, which covers the period
In the first Bulletin we gave an account of the earlier stages of the
work at Shellal and the neighbouring islands El Hesa and El Biga,
and expressed the opinion that the enormous collections of anthropo-
logical material already brought to light, especially on the islands,
would provide sufficient field-work for the whole season. Since then,
however, the discovery in rapid succession of a large series of cemeteries
higher up the river, containing more important human remains, often
of a perishable nature, made it imperative to leave the first site and
follow the archaeologists as they went south.
We propose first of all to give an account of what was done with
the great mass of material in the cemeteries numbered 2, 3, 5, and 7 in
the neighbourhood of Shellal, and a brief sketch of the most prominent
results of our work there. Then we shall describe our progress further
south.
Without expanding this Report to an undue size, it is possible to
give only the briefest notes on the contents of each cemetery. Where-
ever no mention is made of any cemetery it must be understood
that no human remains were found. The inclusion of cranial measure-
ments and the explanation of their significance would have more than
doubled the length of this narrative, which already exceeds the size of
our first Bulletin, although it is little more than an inventory of our
material and an account of the conditions under which we studied it in
the field.
Whenever it has been possible to give actual measurements of height
—not mere estimations—we have done so, because the stature is the
most obvious physical character that can be expressed in figures.
Cemetery No. 7.
The cemetery (No. 7) on the mainland' at Shellal contained about
one thousand bodies. Of these, 108 belong to group a (late prehistoric
and protodynastic); 58 are included in group b, which covers the period