The Nubian Past

An Archaeology of the Sudan

Bibliographic Data

ID23399265
AuthorsDavid N Edwards (0000-0002-9480-4936, University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year2004
Pages360
Publication date2004-07-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNubian Past (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203482766
OpenAlexW4235337393
Open LibraryOL53893825M
ISBN9780203482766
LanguageEN
Citations received116

This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most spectacular archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa is examined here by an author with extensive experience in this field.The geographical range of the book extends through the Nubian north, the Middle Nile Basin, and includes what has become the modern Sudan. Using period-based chapters, the region's long-term history is traced and a potential for a more broadly framed and inclusive 'historical archaeology' of Sudan's more recent past is explored.This text breaks new ground in its move beyond the Egyptocentric and more traditional culture-histories of Nubia, often isolated in Africanist research, and it relocates the early civilizations and their archaeology within their Sudanic Africa context. This is a captivating study of the area's history, and will inform and enthral all students and researchers of Archaeology and Egyptology.

Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · ancient · Antiquités · Antiquities · Archaeology · Archéologie · Archeologische vondsten · Excavations (Archaeology) · General · History · Sudan