Return to Kadakol: new research on Site 1 (LTI019) in the Letti Basin (Sudan)
2022, 31, Vol. 31, Regular Issue
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Abstract
Early comparative research on the material from the site of Kadakol 1 in the Letti Basin (Sudan), which was surveyed in the late 1960s, suggested an association with the Kerma Culture horizon while not excluding multicultural occupation. Investigations, which were resumed in 2022 within the frame of a new research project exploring the significance of the Middle Nile Valley in prehistoric times, have yielded data confirming the early findingsand contributing information on younger occupational episodes from Napatan and Christian times, in both cases attested by extensive burial grounds.
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