Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Levallois Tradition epigones in the Middle Nile Valley: survey in the Affad Basin

2015, 24, No. 1

Marta Osypińska

0000-0003-4603-9245

Piotr Osypiński

0000-0001-7843-224X

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0010.0096

Publication date

28.02.2016

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

The paper presents the results of an archaeological ground survey aimed to record prehistoric settlement landscape in chosen parts of the Southern Dongola Reach (Tergis, Affad and El-Nafab districts). The project fills in the gaps in earlier research on the right bank of the Nile. Numerous new sites were recorded, all reflecting a frequently occupied level of silts and sands originating in the former river valley aggradations. Prospection of locations recorded in 2003 and later demonstrated also the progressing destruction of archaeological sites on the fringes of modern settlement and the new road from Karima to Nawa.

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