Isabelle Vella Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 1229335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabelle Vella Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabelle Vella |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY I V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5181-4803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ceramic manufacturing traditions and sources from the multi-period agro-pastoral cemetery of Jebel Moya, Sudan
Capturing Empire Through the Lens
This paper explores the relationship between archaeology, photography, and colonialism at the site of Jebel Moya (Site 100), Sudan. We consider technical aspects of the photographic archive, the role of photographers, the manipulation of images to convey specific narratives, and the dispersal and reclassification of the Jebel Moya materials across various institutions. When Site 100 was first excavated by Henry Wellcome (1911–1914), Sudan had a C…
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC
The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the prese…
The prehistory of Jebel Moya, Sudan
This paper outlines the ways in which the project is addressing the colonial legacy of Henry Wellcome as well as presenting the data from the first three field seasons at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data have substantially revised our chronological and socio-economic understanding of the site. Our excavations, initiated in 2017 and continued in 2019 and 2022, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previousl…
Gestures and Social Relations
An Archaeology of Pastoralism and Agropastoralism in the Sudan
What might an archaeology of pastoralism in the Sudan look like? This challenging question is hampered by an uneven archaeological record and a lifestyle that has a long and complex biography. While acknowledging that pastoralism continues to be a part of contemporary life, the period up to the early 1st millennium ce, contemporary with the end of the Meroitic state, was a particularly important period for pastoralism in the Sudan. Moreover, the …
New radiocarbon dates from Jebel Moya (Sudan)
New excavations at the Jebel Moya cemetery in Sudan reveal previously unknown, continuous burial activity from the third millennium BC to c. 2000 years ago. Radiometric dates, archaeobotanical analyses and new approaches to the pottery sequence reveal a long-lasting and vibrant community in what was previously dismissed as a marginal environment in south-central Sudan
Sudan, Prehistory of
Maltese Islands, Prehistory of
Re-examining Jebel Moya figurines
This paper builds upon the excavation work carried out to date at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It focuses on the surviving figurine assemblage from Wellcome’s excavations (1911–1914), curated at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and a recently re-discovered Wellcome Collection photographic archive. Too often in Sudan, parallels are drawn between sites far apart, something that is culture-historical in its es…
The chronological and social implications of the pottery from Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan)
The second season of excavations at Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan)
This report presents the latest data from ongoing excavations at Jebel Moya, Sudan. This year saw the opening of five new trenches and continued excavation of an archaeologically rich trench. We have recovered four individual burials, a mud brick wall and a number of animal and archaeobotanical remains. The excavations also yielded a longer pottery sequence, showing clearly that the site was in use by at least the sixth millennium BC. This season…
Ordering the land beyond the Sixth Cataract
The Sudan occupies a fairly complex place in archaeological enquiry. This is not a result of the archaeological record, rather it is due to a particular perception of the Sudan, its archaeology and history. The first excavators were archaeologists and anatomists who either worked in Egypt or in the Mediterranean, while the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium encouraged white-only scholars to both conduct research and to be active members of the newly form…
New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel
This paper presents new excavation data and new radiometric dates for Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data suggest revisions to previous chronological understandings of the site. New excavations, initiated in 2017, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previously recognised. Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses provide evidence for domesticated taxa. Archaeobotanical evidence is dominated by domesti…
Pots and communities of practice in Late Neolithic Malta
The application of pottery attribute analysis
Immensity and Miniaturism
At first glance, the Late Neolithic (3600–2500 BC) of the Maltese Island archipelago in the central Mediterranean is a landscape of immensity dominated by megalithic stone structures. To the modern viewer, the Neolithic is materialized as magnitude across time and space. Archaeologically, it is denoted as the Temple Period, after the numerous megalithic structures found across the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. Although these structures elici…
Ralegh Radford Rome Scholarship
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New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel
This paper presents new excavation data and new radiometric dates for Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data suggest revisions to previous chronological understandings of the site. New excavations, initiated in 2017, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previously recognised. Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses provide evidence for domesticated taxa. Archaeobotanical evidence is dominated by domesti…
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC
The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the prese…
Ordering the land beyond the Sixth Cataract
The Sudan occupies a fairly complex place in archaeological enquiry. This is not a result of the archaeological record, rather it is due to a particular perception of the Sudan, its archaeology and history. The first excavators were archaeologists and anatomists who either worked in Egypt or in the Mediterranean, while the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium encouraged white-only scholars to both conduct research and to be active members of the newly form…
The second season of excavations at Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan)
This report presents the latest data from ongoing excavations at Jebel Moya, Sudan. This year saw the opening of five new trenches and continued excavation of an archaeologically rich trench. We have recovered four individual burials, a mud brick wall and a number of animal and archaeobotanical remains. The excavations also yielded a longer pottery sequence, showing clearly that the site was in use by at least the sixth millennium BC. This season…
New radiocarbon dates from Jebel Moya (Sudan)
New excavations at the Jebel Moya cemetery in Sudan reveal previously unknown, continuous burial activity from the third millennium BC to c. 2000 years ago. Radiometric dates, archaeobotanical analyses and new approaches to the pottery sequence reveal a long-lasting and vibrant community in what was previously dismissed as a marginal environment in south-central Sudan
Immensity and Miniaturism
At first glance, the Late Neolithic (3600–2500 BC) of the Maltese Island archipelago in the central Mediterranean is a landscape of immensity dominated by megalithic stone structures. To the modern viewer, the Neolithic is materialized as magnitude across time and space. Archaeologically, it is denoted as the Temple Period, after the numerous megalithic structures found across the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. Although these structures elici…
Ceramic manufacturing traditions and sources from the multi-period agro-pastoral cemetery of Jebel Moya, Sudan
Re-examining Jebel Moya figurines
This paper builds upon the excavation work carried out to date at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It focuses on the surviving figurine assemblage from Wellcome’s excavations (1911–1914), curated at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and a recently re-discovered Wellcome Collection photographic archive. Too often in Sudan, parallels are drawn between sites far apart, something that is culture-historical in its es…
Ralegh Radford Rome Scholarship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Immensity and Miniaturism
At first glance, the Late Neolithic (3600–2500 BC) of the Maltese Island archipelago in the central Mediterranean is a landscape of immensity dominated by megalithic stone structures. To the modern viewer, the Neolithic is materialized as magnitude across time and space. Archaeologically, it is denoted as the Temple Period, after the numerous megalithic structures found across the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. Although these structures elici…
The application of pottery attribute analysis
Pots and communities of practice in Late Neolithic Malta
New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel
This paper presents new excavation data and new radiometric dates for Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data suggest revisions to previous chronological understandings of the site. New excavations, initiated in 2017, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previously recognised. Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses provide evidence for domesticated taxa. Archaeobotanical evidence is dominated by domesti…
The chronological and social implications of the pottery from Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan)
The second season of excavations at Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan)
This report presents the latest data from ongoing excavations at Jebel Moya, Sudan. This year saw the opening of five new trenches and continued excavation of an archaeologically rich trench. We have recovered four individual burials, a mud brick wall and a number of animal and archaeobotanical remains. The excavations also yielded a longer pottery sequence, showing clearly that the site was in use by at least the sixth millennium BC. This season…
Ordering the land beyond the Sixth Cataract
The Sudan occupies a fairly complex place in archaeological enquiry. This is not a result of the archaeological record, rather it is due to a particular perception of the Sudan, its archaeology and history. The first excavators were archaeologists and anatomists who either worked in Egypt or in the Mediterranean, while the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium encouraged white-only scholars to both conduct research and to be active members of the newly form…
Sudan, Prehistory of
Maltese Islands, Prehistory of
Re-examining Jebel Moya figurines
This paper builds upon the excavation work carried out to date at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It focuses on the surviving figurine assemblage from Wellcome’s excavations (1911–1914), curated at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and a recently re-discovered Wellcome Collection photographic archive. Too often in Sudan, parallels are drawn between sites far apart, something that is culture-historical in its es…
Gestures and Social Relations
An Archaeology of Pastoralism and Agropastoralism in the Sudan
What might an archaeology of pastoralism in the Sudan look like? This challenging question is hampered by an uneven archaeological record and a lifestyle that has a long and complex biography. While acknowledging that pastoralism continues to be a part of contemporary life, the period up to the early 1st millennium ce, contemporary with the end of the Meroitic state, was a particularly important period for pastoralism in the Sudan. Moreover, the …
New radiocarbon dates from Jebel Moya (Sudan)
New excavations at the Jebel Moya cemetery in Sudan reveal previously unknown, continuous burial activity from the third millennium BC to c. 2000 years ago. Radiometric dates, archaeobotanical analyses and new approaches to the pottery sequence reveal a long-lasting and vibrant community in what was previously dismissed as a marginal environment in south-central Sudan
The prehistory of Jebel Moya, Sudan
This paper outlines the ways in which the project is addressing the colonial legacy of Henry Wellcome as well as presenting the data from the first three field seasons at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data have substantially revised our chronological and socio-economic understanding of the site. Our excavations, initiated in 2017 and continued in 2019 and 2022, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previousl…
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC
The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the prese…
Ceramic manufacturing traditions and sources from the multi-period agro-pastoral cemetery of Jebel Moya, Sudan
Capturing Empire Through the Lens
This paper explores the relationship between archaeology, photography, and colonialism at the site of Jebel Moya (Site 100), Sudan. We consider technical aspects of the photographic archive, the role of photographers, the manipulation of images to convey specific narratives, and the dispersal and reclassification of the Jebel Moya materials across various institutions. When Site 100 was first excavated by Henry Wellcome (1911–1914), Sudan had a C…
Geography (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · History (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 works) · Excavation (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Pottery (6 works)