Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

FOURTH CATARACT

SUDAN

THE EL-AR PI CEMETERY
(FOURTH CATARACT SUDAN)
Anna Longa
with an appendix by Joachim Sliwa

survey identified stone structures which were
presumed to be graves, as it turned out,
correctly,. The surface pottery collection was
attributed to the following chronological
periods: Neolithic, Old Kush (Kerma
Culture) (Kolosowska et alii 2003: 21-25)
and Late Meroitic. Evidence of recent
activities preparing the ground under house

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Fig. 1. The El-Ar PI site before excavation
(Photo M. Jawornicki)

The field survey in November and December
2007 in the area of the PCM A concession on
the Fourth Nile Cataract concentrated in the
area around the village of El-Ar. Site P1 was
discovered in the immediate vicinity of the
settlement. It is situated at the edge of the
high desert, occupying a spit of land between
khors, overlooking the river [Fig. 1]. The

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