Stuart Tyson Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 128954 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stuart Tyson Smith |
| NOMBRES | Stuart Tyson |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH S T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5665-3324 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Pre-Adult Burials at Tombos
In many archaeological sites in the Nile Valley of Northeast Africa, pre-adult burials are severely underrepresented due to differential burial practices, variable preservation, differential excavation, and curation practices. This study examines pre-adult burials from the New Kingdom–Early Napatan (1400–750 BCE) site of Tombos in Sudan. Historical and artistic documentation of social age categories from Egypt is presented in order to provide a b…
Imperial expansions, quotidian interactions and the ebb and flow of power and influence between Kush and Egypt
Ancient Egypt is often seen as the dominant colonial power in Northeast Africa during the Bronze and early Iron Ages, driving cultural and political developments in Nubia, ancient Kush, to the south. However, the first and second kingdoms of Kush played a dynamic and arguably equal role in the ebb and flow of power between the two regions. Rivals to Egyptian hegemony, Kushite leaders competed with Egypt for territorial control during the Bronze A…
Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia
Previous analysis of skeletal indicators of physical activity suggested that the population at Tombos, an Egyptian colonial town in Nubia, may have benefited from an imperial framework through occupations that were not physically demanding. With more than ten years of continued excavations, coupled with further biomolecular testing, we reanalyze entheseal changes at Tombos. We compare entheseal changes between the three areas of cemetery, which h…
Tumplines, baskets, and heavy burden? Interdisciplinary approach to load carrying in Bronze Age Abu Fatima, Sudan
Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Ethnicity, Egypt
Ethnicity acted in complex ways in ancient Egypt, playing out differently in various social contexts. Ethnicity is usually characterized as unchanging, a group identity acquired at birth, but is in fact surprisingly mutable and socially contingent. Informed by practice theory and adopting a multi scalar approach, this paper discusses ancient Egyptian constructions of ethnic identity reflected in texts, art, and the everyday practices revealed by …
To the Supports of Heaven
Tumuli at Tombos
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence
The interactions between mobile pastoralists and semi-sedentary Nilotic foraging groups in the Middle Nile Valley had long-term implications for the development of social complexity as seen in the ancient African kingdom of Kerma. This study presents the results of the zooarcheological analysis of animal remains from two sites in the 4th cataract of the Nile valley, El Ginefab and Shemkhiya, and compares findings to other published sites in the r…
Uma Dádiva do Nilo? Mudanças climáticas, as origens da civilização egípcia e suas interações no Nordeste Africano
Os pesquisadores de hoje se deparam, basicamente, com a mesma paisagem que Heródoto testemunhou no Egito e no norte do Sudão, uma estreita faixa verde alimentada pelo Nilo e rodeada pelo absoluto deserto. Essa ecologia peculiar continua desempenhando um papel central em modelos interpretativos acerca das origens do Estado egípcio antigo que diminuem as conexões africanas daquela sociedade. Da década de 1930 até os dias de hoje, porém, um grupo de…
The Nubian Experience of Egyptian Domination During the New Kingdom
The Nubian experience of Egyptian domination during the New Kingdom (ca. 1500–1070 bce) was complex and variable. Outright rebellion to Egyptian rule is attested but was rare. Instead Nubians employed highly variable strategies of collaboration/assimilation, ethnic solidarity, and the creation of hybridity in order to cope with the Egyptian hegemony. The dynamic and variable entanglement and juxtaposition of Nubian and Egyptian ceramic traditions…
Ethnicity
The construction of ethnic self and other played a central role in ancient Egyptian ideology as well as at a more quotidian level. Ethnic groups are usually seen as self-defined, distinctive entities, often corresponding neatly to political or cultural units, but in reality, expressions of ethnic identity are mutable and socially contingent. Adopting a multi-scalar approach informed by practice theory, this paper examines ancient Egyptian constru…
Symbolic equids and Kushite state formation
Entanglement and the Formation of the Ancient Nubian Napatan State
Through the concept of entanglement, archaeological indications of cultural identity and skeletal evidence of biological and geographic interaction are used to explore the development of the Nubian polity who ruled as the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (Napatan period, ca. 750-656 B.C.E.). In this article, we examine the ways in which cultural and biological linkages affect the political, social, and cultural trajectories of the political entities in the …
Nubian and Egyptian Ethnicity
Ethnic groups are usually seen as self-defined, distinctive entities, often corresponding neatly to political or cultural units, but ascriptions of ethnic “other” juxtaposed to ethnic “self” also play a fundamental role in constructions of ethnicity, especially when cultures come into direct contact, as with Egypt and Nubia's long history of interaction. Adopting a multi-scalar approach informed by practice theory, this chapter examines construct…
Identity
Issues of identity have never been far away from archaeology. Ethnic and racial categories, sex and gender (conflated early on), age, status, and other axes of differentiation have been core concepts underpinning archaeological interpretation since the days of early antiquarianism. Recent approaches emphasize identity as multi-scalar, multidimensional, situational, and overlapping, constructed and negotiated by individuals in specific social cont…
A Potter's Wheelhead from Askut and the Organization of the Egyptian Ceramic Industry in Nubia
For the most part, the ceramic assemblage at Askut and the other Nubian fortresses tracks well with pottery from Egypt, and it is clear from the ubiquitous presence of pottery made from marl clays that ceramic vessels were regularly imported from Egyptian workshops in both Upper and Lower Egypt. Large-scale pottery production of Nile Silt vessels, however, is attested during the Middle Kingdom in the Nubian colony at both Mirgissa and Serra East.…
Kawa
Kawa lies on the east bank of the Nile, south of the third cataract opposite the modern town of Dongola.
Kalabsha
The temple and fortified settlement of Kalabsha (or Talmis) were located south of Aswan, one of a series of Ptolemaic and later Roman settlements established in the Dodekaschoinos.
Kom el‐Hisn
Kom el‐Hisn, ancient Imu, lies in the western Nile Delta close to the edge of the desert, and served as the capital of the third nome of Lower Egypt from the New Kingdom onward.
Ethnicity, Egypt
You set every man in his place...
A Portion of Life Solidified
Archaeological evidence is often perceived as either illustrating the historical record or where independent, dealing mainly with small things of little larger importance, like the domestic economy. The search for individual action in the archaeological record seems futile compared to the richness of the historical record at places like Deir el Medina. The founder of modern Egyptian archaeology, W.M. Flinders Petrie, realized the potential for ar…
Between Two Worlds
From Slave to Pharaoh
Andrea Manzo
Ancient Egyptians at play
Ancient Egyptians at play: board games across borders." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 152(3), pp. 273–274
Entanglement and the Formation of the Ancient Nubian Napatan State
Through the concept of entanglement, archaeological indications of cultural identity and skeletal evidence of biological and geographic interaction are used to explore the development of the Nubian polity who ruled as the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (Napatan period, ca. 750-656 B.C.E.). In this article, we examine the ways in which cultural and biological linkages affect the political, social, and cultural trajectories of the political entities in the …
Ancient Nubia
Symbolic equids and Kushite state formation
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence
The interactions between mobile pastoralists and semi-sedentary Nilotic foraging groups in the Middle Nile Valley had long-term implications for the development of social complexity as seen in the ancient African kingdom of Kerma. This study presents the results of the zooarcheological analysis of animal remains from two sites in the 4th cataract of the Nile valley, El Ginefab and Shemkhiya, and compares findings to other published sites in the r…
A Portion of Life Solidified
Archaeological evidence is often perceived as either illustrating the historical record or where independent, dealing mainly with small things of little larger importance, like the domestic economy. The search for individual action in the archaeological record seems futile compared to the richness of the historical record at places like Deir el Medina. The founder of modern Egyptian archaeology, W.M. Flinders Petrie, realized the potential for ar…
Between Two Worlds
Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia
Previous analysis of skeletal indicators of physical activity suggested that the population at Tombos, an Egyptian colonial town in Nubia, may have benefited from an imperial framework through occupations that were not physically demanding. With more than ten years of continued excavations, coupled with further biomolecular testing, we reanalyze entheseal changes at Tombos. We compare entheseal changes between the three areas of cemetery, which h…
Tumuli at Tombos
Ethnicity
The construction of ethnic self and other played a central role in ancient Egyptian ideology as well as at a more quotidian level. Ethnic groups are usually seen as self-defined, distinctive entities, often corresponding neatly to political or cultural units, but in reality, expressions of ethnic identity are mutable and socially contingent. Adopting a multi-scalar approach informed by practice theory, this paper examines ancient Egyptian constru…
The Survey of Memphis. Vol. 2, Kom Rabi'a
Tumplines, baskets, and heavy burden? Interdisciplinary approach to load carrying in Bronze Age Abu Fatima, Sudan
Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
A Potter's Wheelhead from Askut and the Organization of the Egyptian Ceramic Industry in Nubia
For the most part, the ceramic assemblage at Askut and the other Nubian fortresses tracks well with pottery from Egypt, and it is clear from the ubiquitous presence of pottery made from marl clays that ceramic vessels were regularly imported from Egyptian workshops in both Upper and Lower Egypt. Large-scale pottery production of Nile Silt vessels, however, is attested during the Middle Kingdom in the Nubian colony at both Mirgissa and Serra East.…
Wretched Kush
Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC. By using the tools of anthropology, Smith examines the Ancient Egyptian construction of ethnic identities with its stark con…
Askut and the Role of the Second Cataract Forts
The fortress of Askut lay on an island in the Batn el-Hajar, just south of the Second Cataract (fig. 1), and was one of a chain of fortresses established in the Middle Kingdom. Until the excavations of the University of California at Los Angeles, led by Alexander Badawy from 1962-64, little was known about the site and its significance. Wheeler mentioned it in passing in 1932, characterizing it as much destroyed and rebuilt, and noting that it pr…
Askut and the Role of the Second Cataract Forts
The fortress of Askut lay on an island in the Batn el-Hajar, just south of the Second Cataract (fig. 1), and was one of a chain of fortresses established in the Middle Kingdom. Until the excavations of the University of California at Los Angeles, led by Alexander Badawy from 1962-64, little was known about the site and its significance. Wheeler mentioned it in passing in 1932, characterizing it as much destroyed and rebuilt, and noting that it pr…
Ancient Nubia
Ancient Egyptian Imperialism
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Askut in Nubia
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Preliminary Report on the Survey of Kom el-Hisn, 1996
Askut in Nubia. The Economics and Ideology of Egyptian Imperialism in the Second Millennium BC
Preliminary Report on the Survey of Kom El-Hisn, 1996
The Egypt Exploration Society initiated a new archaeological survey at the site of Kom el-Hisn near the edge of Egypt's Western Delta. Six test pits were opened in the southern half of the site to the north of the Old Kingdom town excavated by the ARCE mission in the 1980s. Deposits dating to the mid-Thirteenth Dynasty were discovered in Test Pit 1, robbers' trenches and the foundation wall of the main temple building of Sekhmet-Hathor (probably …
The Survey of Memphis. Vol. 2, Kom Rabi'a
Wretched Kush
Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC. By using the tools of anthropology, Smith examines the Ancient Egyptian construction of ethnic identities with its stark con…
Gnesis of the Pharaohs
From Slave to Pharaoh
A Portion of Life Solidified
Archaeological evidence is often perceived as either illustrating the historical record or where independent, dealing mainly with small things of little larger importance, like the domestic economy. The search for individual action in the archaeological record seems futile compared to the richness of the historical record at places like Deir el Medina. The founder of modern Egyptian archaeology, W.M. Flinders Petrie, realized the potential for ar…
Between Two Worlds
Kawa
Kawa lies on the east bank of the Nile, south of the third cataract opposite the modern town of Dongola.
Kalabsha
The temple and fortified settlement of Kalabsha (or Talmis) were located south of Aswan, one of a series of Ptolemaic and later Roman settlements established in the Dodekaschoinos.
Kom el‐Hisn
Kom el‐Hisn, ancient Imu, lies in the western Nile Delta close to the edge of the desert, and served as the capital of the third nome of Lower Egypt from the New Kingdom onward.
Ethnicity, Egypt
You set every man in his place...
Nubian and Egyptian Ethnicity
Ethnic groups are usually seen as self-defined, distinctive entities, often corresponding neatly to political or cultural units, but ascriptions of ethnic “other” juxtaposed to ethnic “self” also play a fundamental role in constructions of ethnicity, especially when cultures come into direct contact, as with Egypt and Nubia's long history of interaction. Adopting a multi-scalar approach informed by practice theory, this chapter examines construct…
Identity
Issues of identity have never been far away from archaeology. Ethnic and racial categories, sex and gender (conflated early on), age, status, and other axes of differentiation have been core concepts underpinning archaeological interpretation since the days of early antiquarianism. Recent approaches emphasize identity as multi-scalar, multidimensional, situational, and overlapping, constructed and negotiated by individuals in specific social cont…
A Potter's Wheelhead from Askut and the Organization of the Egyptian Ceramic Industry in Nubia
For the most part, the ceramic assemblage at Askut and the other Nubian fortresses tracks well with pottery from Egypt, and it is clear from the ubiquitous presence of pottery made from marl clays that ceramic vessels were regularly imported from Egyptian workshops in both Upper and Lower Egypt. Large-scale pottery production of Nile Silt vessels, however, is attested during the Middle Kingdom in the Nubian colony at both Mirgissa and Serra East.…
Entanglement and the Formation of the Ancient Nubian Napatan State
Through the concept of entanglement, archaeological indications of cultural identity and skeletal evidence of biological and geographic interaction are used to explore the development of the Nubian polity who ruled as the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (Napatan period, ca. 750-656 B.C.E.). In this article, we examine the ways in which cultural and biological linkages affect the political, social, and cultural trajectories of the political entities in the …
Ethnicity
The construction of ethnic self and other played a central role in ancient Egyptian ideology as well as at a more quotidian level. Ethnic groups are usually seen as self-defined, distinctive entities, often corresponding neatly to political or cultural units, but in reality, expressions of ethnic identity are mutable and socially contingent. Adopting a multi-scalar approach informed by practice theory, this paper examines ancient Egyptian constru…
Symbolic equids and Kushite state formation
The Nubian Experience of Egyptian Domination During the New Kingdom
The Nubian experience of Egyptian domination during the New Kingdom (ca. 1500–1070 bce) was complex and variable. Outright rebellion to Egyptian rule is attested but was rare. Instead Nubians employed highly variable strategies of collaboration/assimilation, ethnic solidarity, and the creation of hybridity in order to cope with the Egyptian hegemony. The dynamic and variable entanglement and juxtaposition of Nubian and Egyptian ceramic traditions…
Uma Dádiva do Nilo? Mudanças climáticas, as origens da civilização egípcia e suas interações no Nordeste Africano
Os pesquisadores de hoje se deparam, basicamente, com a mesma paisagem que Heródoto testemunhou no Egito e no norte do Sudão, uma estreita faixa verde alimentada pelo Nilo e rodeada pelo absoluto deserto. Essa ecologia peculiar continua desempenhando um papel central em modelos interpretativos acerca das origens do Estado egípcio antigo que diminuem as conexões africanas daquela sociedade. Da década de 1930 até os dias de hoje, porém, um grupo de…
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