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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Unearthing 6th-century CE occupation on the fringes of the Nile Valley. Closing the PalaeoAffad Project in the Affad Basin (Sudan)

2022, 31, Vol. 31, Regular Issue

Marta Osypińska

0000-0003-4603-9245

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

University of Wrocław, Institute of Archaeology

Justyna Kokolus

0000-0002-6949-2395

Independent researcher

Paweł Wiktorowicz

0000-0002-3897-0948

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology

Marzena Cendrowska

Wear Analysis Laboratory, The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

Roman Łopaciuk

0000-0002-8144-912X

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures

Marek Chłodnicki

0000-0002-1728-464X

Archaeological Museum in Poznań

Poznań Archaeological Museum

Beata Piotrowska

Independent researcher

Jakub Sobko

Independent researcher

Huyam Khalid Madani

National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan

DOI

10.37343/uw.2083-537X.pam31.12

Publication date

30.12.2022

Publishing model

open access

License type

CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Humanities

Discipline

archeology

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

Presentation of the results of the last season of research in the Affad Basin (Northern Province, Sudan). Recent discoveries focused on the most distant archaeological sites known in the microregion, remote some 7 km from the current river. Explored features revealed cultural affinities with pastoralism at the semi-desert environment dated to the period between Meroitic and Makuria kingdoms.

Keywords:

survey,Nubia,Middle Nile Valley

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