Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

BANGANARTI

SUDAN

FAUNAL REMAINS FROM BANGANARTI
SEASON 2007

Marta Osypmska

The excavations in the Banganarti churches
had yielded very little faunal material
obviously because of the sacral function of
the buildings, hence the excavation of the
curtain wall proved a boon in that it
provided a collective assemblage of 2347
bone fragments for analysis. Of these, 1884

fragments originated from a test trench dug
inside a domestic structure situated just
inside the eastern curtain wall and 405 from
the exploration of the southern, western and
eastern stretches of the actual wall. Another
26 fragments came from the Lower Church
and 32 fragments from the West Building.

ASSEMBLAGE

The preservation of the bone assemblage
wehich was recovered from the excavations
was good [Fig. 1], permitting practically full
identification of the remains. Almost no
post-depositional impact resulting from
climatic factors were could be observed on
any of the bones.

The assemblage from the test trench by
the east wall was divided into three groups
corresponding to three arbitrary archaeolo-
gical layers. All the material from the various
trenches dug on the curtain wall was treated
as one set as it came from stratigraphically the
same context.


Fig. 1. Selection of bones from the assemblages studied in 2007
(Photo M. Osypmska)

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