Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

KADERO

SUDAN

KADERO
PRELIMINARY REPORT, 1999
Lech Krzyzaniak
The 1999 season at Kadero was the fifteenth at this site. Work has proceeded hi-annually
since the 1980s in an effort to maximize staff and logistic opportunities and to carry on dif-
ferent kinds of research. In similarity to the previous seasons, the project was conducted by the
Polish Center of Archeology of Warsaw University in association with the Poznan
Archaeological Museum.
The season started on November 11 and terminated on December 9, 1999-l>
Campaign objectives included continued excavation of the Neolithic settlement2) and its
burial ground, macro-examination of the botanical remains found in the settlement middens
and grave pits, investigation of the geology and geomorphology of the Kadero mound, and
study of the human remains found in the graves.

11 The field party comprised Prof. Lech Krzyzaniak, Dr. Karla Kroeper, Prof. Michal Kobusiewicz, Mr. Przemyslaw
Bobrowski, Mr. Maciej Jordeczka, archaeologists; Prof. Dr. Maria Kaczmarek, physical anthropologist; Prof. Wojciech
Stankowski, geologist; Dr. Lucyna Kubiak-Martens, botanist. The National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums was
represented at the site by Mrs. Amal Awad Mokhtar.
2> L. Krzyzaniak, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), 154-157 (also earlier references); L. Krzyzaniak, A Rich Neolithic Burial
from Kadero (Sudan), in: F-R Herrmann (ed.), Festschrift fur Gunter Smolla, Materialien zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte von
Hessen 8 (Wiesbaden 1999), vol. II, 399-404.

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