The Mesolithic period on the White Nile region and the al-Khiday sites

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ID6042008
AutoresDonatella Usai (0000-0001-9379-9015, Centro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani, Treviso 3100, Italy, autor de correspondencia), Sandro Salvatori (0000-0002-8574-6316, Centro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani, Treviso 3100, Italy)
Año2019
Volumen54
Número4
Páginas445-467
Fecha de publicación2019-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAzania Archaeological Research in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0067-270X • E-ISSN: 1945-5534
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0067270x.2019.1691846
OpenAlexW2996466687
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas26

The excavation at al-Khiday’s Mesolithic and Neolithic sites, located along the western bank of the White Nile, 25 km south of Khartoum, provides a complex view of hunter-gatherer-fisher pottery-bearing communities inhabiting this region of Sudan during the early and middle Holocene. Their state of preservation, combined with special attention to site formation processes and a multidisciplinary approach to excavation and recording methods, has identified a settlement evolving from an ephemeral occupation into a village in which spaces were organised with different structures suggesting diversified functions and activities. Combined palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and bio-archaeological studies allow reconstruction of the transition from residential mobility to a nearly sedentary lifestyle and, in the later phase, a return to more mobile strategies

Antler · Archaeology · Art · Ephemeral key · Excavation · Geography · Holocene · Mesolithic · Period (music) · Pottery · Settlement (finance) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology