Maria Carmela Gatto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 197163 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maria Carmela Gatto |
| NOMBRES | Maria Carmela |
| APELLIDO | Gatto |
| FIRMA | GATTO M C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8068-5390 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Atbai Enclosure Burials
Despite being at the crossroads of the well-studied worlds of ancient Egypt and Nubia, the archaeology of the Atbai Desert, the region between the Nubian Nile and the Red Sea, is still in its infancy. Cultural horizons are poorly defined, and patterns and chronologies of human habitation are only slowly emerging. As part of the satellite remote sensing workflows of the Atbai Survey Project, a common monumental burial feature has been identified a…
Combining Geo-Archaeology and Historical Nile Records to Understand Predynastic Settlement Patterns in the Region of the Nile’s First Cataract, Egypt
This paper aims to contribute new data to understanding early Predynastic settlement patterns in Egypt at the beginning of the state formation process in the 4th millennium bce . It focuses on the early settlements of the First Nile Cataract region. We employ three different datasets to address the issue retrieved from a recent archaeological investigation and drill coring and from Nile records available from archaeological and historical sources…
Bordering Power
This paper reconsiders three royal inscriptions of King Merenra (Sixth Dynasty) in the region of the First Nile Cataract. They have long been known to scholars but have not received extensive treatment beyond translations. The inscriptions appear to be among the first explicit royal statements addressing the limits of Egyptian territory and the beginnings of foreign lands. The paper situates the inscriptions within more comprehensive scholarship …
The Borderscape Project Webgis
The BORDERSCAPE Project WebGIS database and web app provide an overview of changes in the settlement pattern of the ancient Egyptian southern border during the long process of state formation and border-making. The dataset is set up in Excel and CSV formats and includes 163 archaeological sites from the First Cataract Region in southern Egypt, dating from c. 3800 to 2300 BCE. Eighty-two sites were discovered by the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological P…
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt
The Social Implication of a “mixed” Ceramic Assemblage
This article investigates the social landscape of the First Nile Cataract region in the 4th mill. BCE through the application of petrographic and technological approaches to pottery analysis. The study focuses on the ceramic assemblages from the settlement WK15 and the necropolis WK14 at Nag el-Qarmila and identifies for the first time three technical traditions along with their synchronic and diachronic interaction. It provides new data on the m…
The A-Group and 4th Millennium BCE Nubia
This chapter discusses the 4th millennium bce in Nubia, which was characterized by a further advance in the process of socio-economic complexity already underway during the previous Neolithic phase, undoubtedly enhanced by interaction with Predynastic Egypt. This ultimately produced the emergence of the A-Group, an indigenous complex polity that appeared at the end of the millennium and reached its climax about the time of the Egyptian unificatio…
Obituary - Sandro Salvatori (1948-2020)
The Social Dimension of Pots
C‐Group
The C‐Group was a Nubian culture (ca. 2550–1550 bce ). Its social system was tribal with an economy based on agro‐pastoralism and trade with Egypt. The current chronological framework consists of three phases: Early; Middle; and Late. Archaeological evidence concerning the C‐Group comes from both funerary and domestic contexts. These are respectively characterized by stone tumuli with associated offering places or chapels, and by enclosed village…
Identity Markers in South-Western Fazzan
According to Herodotus’s Histories , the people living a ten day’s journey to the west of the Garamantes was the Atarantes As suggested by Liverani, if the Garamantes are to be placed in the Wadi al-Ajal around Jarma/Garama, this would likely locate the Atarantes in the Wadi Tanzzuft/Tadrart Akakus region Fig. 3.1). Archaeological research over the last two decades has considerably improved our knowledge of Saharan civilisations that developed fr…
Burials, Migration and Identity
This book is the second volume of four proposed thematic books on aspects of the archaeology and history of what we term the Trans-Saharan zone – broadly conceived of as the vast spaces of Maghrib, Sahara and Sub-Saharan Sahel between the Atlantic in the west, the Mediterranean in the north, the Nile in the east and the equatorial African forests in the south. The territorial expanse of this zone is huge and, given the hostile climate and environ…
Concluding Discussion
At the start of this volume, we outlined three main themes: burial archaeology, migration and identity. In this concluding chapter, we revisit these themes in light of the varied case studies and examples explored in this book. We believe this volume illustrates that there is irrefutable evidence of links and connections that serve to define a Trans-Saharan zone at an early date. Migration and mobility created networks of connectivity and element…
Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
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A multi-scalar approach for assessing the impact of dams on the cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
Beyond the Shale
Once more the Nag el-Hamdulab early hieroglyphic annotation
Coleman Darnell John, Hendrickx Stan, Gatto Maria Carmela. Once more the Nag el-Hamdulab early hieroglyphic annotation. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°27, 2017. pp. 65-74
Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone
This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…
First probable case of scurvy in ancient Egypt at Nag el-Qarmila, Aswan
Holocene Supra-Regional Environmental Changes as Trigger for Major Socio-Cultural Processes in Northeastern Africa and the Sahara
C‐Group
The termC‐Group, introduced byG. A. Reisner (1910), archaeologically designates a culture that appeared in Lower nubia , the territory between the First and Second cataracts, between around 2500 and 1500 BCE (contemporary with the Egyptian Old Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period).
The earliest representations of royal power in Egypt
The vivid engravings on vertical rocks at the desert site of Nag el-Hamdulab west of the Nile comprise a rock art gallery of exceptional historical significance. The authors show that the images of boats with attendant prisoners, animals and the earliest representation of a pharaoh offer a window on Dynasty 0, and depict the moment that the religious procession of pre-Dynastic Egypt became the triumphant tour of a tax-collecting monarch
The Relative Chronology of Nubia
La longue chronologie de l’Holocène en Nubie est ici révisée et réévaluée en prenant en compte la Nubie comme un territoire culturel qui inclut la vallée du Nil de la Première à la Quatrième cataracte et les déserts environnants. Durant le 5e millénaire BC, la zone d’influence nubienne s’étendait jusqu’à la Moyenne Égypte et jusqu’à la région de Khartoum. Dans la partie méridionale de la vallée du Nil égyptienne des marqueurs d’identité sont enco…
Predynastic settlement and cemeteries at Nag el-Qarmila, Kubbaniya
Gatto Maria Carmela, De Dapper Morgan, Gerisch Rainer, Hart Elizabeth, Hendrickx Stan, Herbich Tomasz, Joris Hannah, Nordström Hans-Åke, Pitre Mindy, Roma Sara, Swiech Dawid, Usai Donatella. Predynastic settlement and cemeteries at Nag el-Qarmila, Kubbaniya. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°19, 2009. L’art rupestre de la vallée du Nil et des déserts égyptiens. pp. 186-206
Ceramics from Fewet
Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone
This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…
A multi-scalar approach for assessing the impact of dams on the cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
Ceramics from Fewet
Holocene Supra-Regional Environmental Changes as Trigger for Major Socio-Cultural Processes in Northeastern Africa and the Sahara
The earliest representations of royal power in Egypt
The vivid engravings on vertical rocks at the desert site of Nag el-Hamdulab west of the Nile comprise a rock art gallery of exceptional historical significance. The authors show that the images of boats with attendant prisoners, animals and the earliest representation of a pharaoh offer a window on Dynasty 0, and depict the moment that the religious procession of pre-Dynastic Egypt became the triumphant tour of a tax-collecting monarch
A Preliminary Report of Excavations in Fewet, Libyan Sahara
In 1997, the .Joint Italian-Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Akakus and Messak (Libyan Sahara)., presently directed by Savino di Lernia, started a program of historical archaeology aimed at recovering remains of the Garamantian period, ca 800 BC to 350 AD. One of the selected sites is Fewet, a small but well nucleated oasis some 10 km SW of Ghat. After a first sounding in 2001, part of the settlement was excavated in 2002-2003, and the adjace…
The Nubian A-Group
This paper shall provide an up-dated assessment of the current knowledge on the Nubian A-Group culture. A general overview of the state of the art is given, with a special focus on the new data acquired recently from regions surrounding Lower Nubia. Its interpretation and the consequent revised definition of what is the A-Group is here reported
Predynastic settlement and cemeteries at Nag el-Qarmila, Kubbaniya
Gatto Maria Carmela, De Dapper Morgan, Gerisch Rainer, Hart Elizabeth, Hendrickx Stan, Herbich Tomasz, Joris Hannah, Nordström Hans-Åke, Pitre Mindy, Roma Sara, Swiech Dawid, Usai Donatella. Predynastic settlement and cemeteries at Nag el-Qarmila, Kubbaniya. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°19, 2009. L’art rupestre de la vallée du Nil et des déserts égyptiens. pp. 186-206
Rock art from West Bank Aswan and Wadi Abu Subeira
Since 2005 the “Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project” has been working on the rock art sites from Gharb Aswan and Wadi Abu Subeira. Many are the localities recorded up until now, mainly along the river and on wadi bottoms. The representations are dated from prehistory to the Islamic Period and show a variety of subjects : wild animals, cattle, boats, camels, human fi gures etc. Hereafter three of those sites will be described in detail : two are…
The Relative Chronology of Nubia
La longue chronologie de l’Holocène en Nubie est ici révisée et réévaluée en prenant en compte la Nubie comme un territoire culturel qui inclut la vallée du Nil de la Première à la Quatrième cataracte et les déserts environnants. Durant le 5e millénaire BC, la zone d’influence nubienne s’étendait jusqu’à la Moyenne Égypte et jusqu’à la région de Khartoum. Dans la partie méridionale de la vallée du Nil égyptienne des marqueurs d’identité sont enco…
C‐Group
The termC‐Group, introduced byG. A. Reisner (1910), archaeologically designates a culture that appeared in Lower nubia , the territory between the First and Second cataracts, between around 2500 and 1500 BCE (contemporary with the Egyptian Old Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period).
The earliest representations of royal power in Egypt
The vivid engravings on vertical rocks at the desert site of Nag el-Hamdulab west of the Nile comprise a rock art gallery of exceptional historical significance. The authors show that the images of boats with attendant prisoners, animals and the earliest representation of a pharaoh offer a window on Dynasty 0, and depict the moment that the religious procession of pre-Dynastic Egypt became the triumphant tour of a tax-collecting monarch
Holocene Supra-Regional Environmental Changes as Trigger for Major Socio-Cultural Processes in Northeastern Africa and the Sahara
First probable case of scurvy in ancient Egypt at Nag el-Qarmila, Aswan
Beyond the Shale
Once more the Nag el-Hamdulab early hieroglyphic annotation
Coleman Darnell John, Hendrickx Stan, Gatto Maria Carmela. Once more the Nag el-Hamdulab early hieroglyphic annotation. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°27, 2017. pp. 65-74
Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone
This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…
Identity Markers in South-Western Fazzan
According to Herodotus’s Histories , the people living a ten day’s journey to the west of the Garamantes was the Atarantes As suggested by Liverani, if the Garamantes are to be placed in the Wadi al-Ajal around Jarma/Garama, this would likely locate the Atarantes in the Wadi Tanzzuft/Tadrart Akakus region Fig. 3.1). Archaeological research over the last two decades has considerably improved our knowledge of Saharan civilisations that developed fr…
Burials, Migration and Identity
This book is the second volume of four proposed thematic books on aspects of the archaeology and history of what we term the Trans-Saharan zone – broadly conceived of as the vast spaces of Maghrib, Sahara and Sub-Saharan Sahel between the Atlantic in the west, the Mediterranean in the north, the Nile in the east and the equatorial African forests in the south. The territorial expanse of this zone is huge and, given the hostile climate and environ…
Concluding Discussion
At the start of this volume, we outlined three main themes: burial archaeology, migration and identity. In this concluding chapter, we revisit these themes in light of the varied case studies and examples explored in this book. We believe this volume illustrates that there is irrefutable evidence of links and connections that serve to define a Trans-Saharan zone at an early date. Migration and mobility created networks of connectivity and element…
Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics
A multi-scalar approach for assessing the impact of dams on the cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
C‐Group
The C‐Group was a Nubian culture (ca. 2550–1550 bce ). Its social system was tribal with an economy based on agro‐pastoralism and trade with Egypt. The current chronological framework consists of three phases: Early; Middle; and Late. Archaeological evidence concerning the C‐Group comes from both funerary and domestic contexts. These are respectively characterized by stone tumuli with associated offering places or chapels, and by enclosed village…
The A-Group and 4th Millennium BCE Nubia
This chapter discusses the 4th millennium bce in Nubia, which was characterized by a further advance in the process of socio-economic complexity already underway during the previous Neolithic phase, undoubtedly enhanced by interaction with Predynastic Egypt. This ultimately produced the emergence of the A-Group, an indigenous complex polity that appeared at the end of the millennium and reached its climax about the time of the Egyptian unificatio…
Obituary - Sandro Salvatori (1948-2020)
The Social Dimension of Pots
Combining Geo-Archaeology and Historical Nile Records to Understand Predynastic Settlement Patterns in the Region of the Nile’s First Cataract, Egypt
This paper aims to contribute new data to understanding early Predynastic settlement patterns in Egypt at the beginning of the state formation process in the 4th millennium bce . It focuses on the early settlements of the First Nile Cataract region. We employ three different datasets to address the issue retrieved from a recent archaeological investigation and drill coring and from Nile records available from archaeological and historical sources…
Bordering Power
This paper reconsiders three royal inscriptions of King Merenra (Sixth Dynasty) in the region of the First Nile Cataract. They have long been known to scholars but have not received extensive treatment beyond translations. The inscriptions appear to be among the first explicit royal statements addressing the limits of Egyptian territory and the beginnings of foreign lands. The paper situates the inscriptions within more comprehensive scholarship …
The Borderscape Project Webgis
The BORDERSCAPE Project WebGIS database and web app provide an overview of changes in the settlement pattern of the ancient Egyptian southern border during the long process of state formation and border-making. The dataset is set up in Excel and CSV formats and includes 163 archaeological sites from the First Cataract Region in southern Egypt, dating from c. 3800 to 2300 BCE. Eighty-two sites were discovered by the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological P…
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt
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