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DOI Artikel:Chłodnicki, Marek; Longa, Anna; Osypiński, Piotr: Fourth Cataract: archaeological survey between el-Ar (Shemkhiya) and el-Gamamiya (November-December 2007)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42093#0399
FOURTH CATARACT
SUDAN
edge of the highland. Some were of
considerable size as well (El-Ar 25), while
others yielded only traces of huts and very
few potsherds. A fragmentary caliciform
beaker found at El-Ar 1 could have
originated from a Neolithic grave disturbed
when a Kerma cemetery occupied the same
site at a later date.
Small tumuli cemeteries were frequent;
they are built of stone blocks and are
occasionally fitted between rock outcrops.
These can be connected with the Kerma
horizon. Large post-Meroitic cemeteries
were located deeper in the desert (EA31) or
in the old river bed (EA4), wherever
conditions allowed for burial chambers to
be dug deeper into the ground.
A destroyed box grave cemetery was
discovered inside the village of El-Ar. It is
the last in a line of Christian cemeteries
extending along the Nile Valley from Gebel
Gurgurib to the dry old river bed.
Settlement remains that could be
of Kerma through Christian date are innu-
merous, comprising only a small number of
potsherds.
A new problem has arisen threatening
the sites lying on higher ground and
hitherto presumed to be safe from flooding.
These locations are now in danger of being
disturbed and even destroyed by intensive
building activity undertaken by the local
villagers who have moved their houses to
the high desert areas.
REFERENCES
Chlodnicki, M.
2010 Archaeological research between es-Sadda and Shemkhiya 2005-2006, GARLAR 6,
31-40
Chlodnicki, M., Lemiesz, M, Longa, A., Osypihski, P., Sip, M.
2006 Fourth Cataract. Excavations at es-Sadda and Hagar el-Beida, Survey between es-Sadda
and Shemkhiya: two seasons of work in 2005, PAM XVII \=Reports 2005], 337-347
Chlodnicki, M., and Zurawski, B.
2005 From Khor Umm Ghizlan to Shemkhiya. Archaeological survey in the Fourth Cataract
Region. December 2004, RAMXVII [=Reports 2005], 369-383
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007
393
SUDAN
edge of the highland. Some were of
considerable size as well (El-Ar 25), while
others yielded only traces of huts and very
few potsherds. A fragmentary caliciform
beaker found at El-Ar 1 could have
originated from a Neolithic grave disturbed
when a Kerma cemetery occupied the same
site at a later date.
Small tumuli cemeteries were frequent;
they are built of stone blocks and are
occasionally fitted between rock outcrops.
These can be connected with the Kerma
horizon. Large post-Meroitic cemeteries
were located deeper in the desert (EA31) or
in the old river bed (EA4), wherever
conditions allowed for burial chambers to
be dug deeper into the ground.
A destroyed box grave cemetery was
discovered inside the village of El-Ar. It is
the last in a line of Christian cemeteries
extending along the Nile Valley from Gebel
Gurgurib to the dry old river bed.
Settlement remains that could be
of Kerma through Christian date are innu-
merous, comprising only a small number of
potsherds.
A new problem has arisen threatening
the sites lying on higher ground and
hitherto presumed to be safe from flooding.
These locations are now in danger of being
disturbed and even destroyed by intensive
building activity undertaken by the local
villagers who have moved their houses to
the high desert areas.
REFERENCES
Chlodnicki, M.
2010 Archaeological research between es-Sadda and Shemkhiya 2005-2006, GARLAR 6,
31-40
Chlodnicki, M., Lemiesz, M, Longa, A., Osypihski, P., Sip, M.
2006 Fourth Cataract. Excavations at es-Sadda and Hagar el-Beida, Survey between es-Sadda
and Shemkhiya: two seasons of work in 2005, PAM XVII \=Reports 2005], 337-347
Chlodnicki, M., and Zurawski, B.
2005 From Khor Umm Ghizlan to Shemkhiya. Archaeological survey in the Fourth Cataract
Region. December 2004, RAMXVII [=Reports 2005], 369-383
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007
393