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DOI article:Krzyżaniak, Lech: Kadero: excavations 1997
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KADERO
EXCAVATIONS 1997
Lech Krzyzaniak
The fourteenth season of fieldwork at Kadero in the
Khartoum Province took place in November and the first half of
December, 1997, after a four-year interval resulting from budget
difficulties.1 The objective was to continue exploration of the local
burial grounds dated to the Neolithic and Late Meroitic periods.2
Work concentrated on a pit excavated in previous seasons
and now enlarged. Consequently, a total of 36 squares, each 2x2
m, was excavated to the north of the pit (three rows of twelve
squares each, nos. 603-638), and 38 squares of the same size in two
rows, nos. 871-896, 897-898, 903-912) to the south of it. All of the
squares were excavated to a depth of 1-1.2 m. Thus, the total
excavated area this season was 296 m2. Considering the depth of
1 The Mission included: Prof. Lech Krzyzaniak, Director, Dr Karla Kroeper, Marek
Lemiesz, archaeologists; Ilona Kozlowska, physical anthropologist; Agnieszka
Krzyzaniak, student of archaeology. The season was a success thanks to the Director
General of the SNCAM Prof. Hassan Hussein Idris and his Inspector at the site,
Mrs. Ekhlas Abdel-Latif.
2 L. Krzyzaniak, PAMW, 1993 (1994), pp. 111-114 (with further bibliography); id.. Early
farming in the Middle Nile Basin: recent discoveries at Kadero (Central Sudan), Antiquity
65, 248 (1991), pp. 515-532; id., The Meroitic Burial Ground at Kadero (Khartoum
Province), Hommages a Jean Leclant, vol. 2 (Nubie, Soudan, Ethiopie), Le Caire IF AO
1994, pp. 263-268; id.. The Neolithic Social Elite in the Central Sudan: Theses, in:
J. Pavuk, Actes du Xlle Congres International des Sciences Prehistoriques et
Protohistoriques, Nitra-Bratislava 1993, p. 471; id., The Kadero Project, The Sudan
Archaeological Society Newsletter, 10(1996), pp. 14-17; Michal Kobusiewicz,
Technology, goals and efficiency of quartz exploitation in the Khartoum Neolithic: The
case of Kadero, in: Lech Krzyzaniak, Karla Kroeper and Michal Kobusiewicz (eds.),
Interregional Contacts in the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa, Poznan 1996,
pp. 347-354; Marek Chlodnicki, New types of Neolithic pottery in Kadero (Sudan), Actes
de la VUIe Conference Internationale des Etudes Nubiennes, Lille 1997, pp. 29-35.
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EXCAVATIONS 1997
Lech Krzyzaniak
The fourteenth season of fieldwork at Kadero in the
Khartoum Province took place in November and the first half of
December, 1997, after a four-year interval resulting from budget
difficulties.1 The objective was to continue exploration of the local
burial grounds dated to the Neolithic and Late Meroitic periods.2
Work concentrated on a pit excavated in previous seasons
and now enlarged. Consequently, a total of 36 squares, each 2x2
m, was excavated to the north of the pit (three rows of twelve
squares each, nos. 603-638), and 38 squares of the same size in two
rows, nos. 871-896, 897-898, 903-912) to the south of it. All of the
squares were excavated to a depth of 1-1.2 m. Thus, the total
excavated area this season was 296 m2. Considering the depth of
1 The Mission included: Prof. Lech Krzyzaniak, Director, Dr Karla Kroeper, Marek
Lemiesz, archaeologists; Ilona Kozlowska, physical anthropologist; Agnieszka
Krzyzaniak, student of archaeology. The season was a success thanks to the Director
General of the SNCAM Prof. Hassan Hussein Idris and his Inspector at the site,
Mrs. Ekhlas Abdel-Latif.
2 L. Krzyzaniak, PAMW, 1993 (1994), pp. 111-114 (with further bibliography); id.. Early
farming in the Middle Nile Basin: recent discoveries at Kadero (Central Sudan), Antiquity
65, 248 (1991), pp. 515-532; id., The Meroitic Burial Ground at Kadero (Khartoum
Province), Hommages a Jean Leclant, vol. 2 (Nubie, Soudan, Ethiopie), Le Caire IF AO
1994, pp. 263-268; id.. The Neolithic Social Elite in the Central Sudan: Theses, in:
J. Pavuk, Actes du Xlle Congres International des Sciences Prehistoriques et
Protohistoriques, Nitra-Bratislava 1993, p. 471; id., The Kadero Project, The Sudan
Archaeological Society Newsletter, 10(1996), pp. 14-17; Michal Kobusiewicz,
Technology, goals and efficiency of quartz exploitation in the Khartoum Neolithic: The
case of Kadero, in: Lech Krzyzaniak, Karla Kroeper and Michal Kobusiewicz (eds.),
Interregional Contacts in the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa, Poznan 1996,
pp. 347-354; Marek Chlodnicki, New types of Neolithic pottery in Kadero (Sudan), Actes
de la VUIe Conference Internationale des Etudes Nubiennes, Lille 1997, pp. 29-35.
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