Elena A A Garcea
Biographic Data
| ID | 512096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena A A Garcea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena A A |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcea |
| SIGNATURE | GARCEA E A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6036-3362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 298 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Public Engagement and Heritage Resilience amid Sudan’s Ongoing Political Conflict
Assimilations and Replacements of Early and Middle Holocene Ceramic Productions Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Northern Sudan
The inception of ceramic technology in Sudan is a prerogative of early Holocene hunter-gatherers who established their settlements along the Nile Valley and in the surrounding savanna since the mid-ninth millennium BC. These groups were characterized by low mobility with semi-sedentary sites, a few burials within the settlements, or occasionally large cemeteries. The manufacture of pottery, in association with other technological productions (e.g…
More than one way to perform archaeometric analyses on pottery. Case studies from prehistoric to Bronze Age Sudan
Sudanese archaeology boasts a long-standing tradition of studying pottery technology, including through archaeometric analyses. In the early 1970s, several international and Sudanese scholars conducted the first petrographic and geochemical studies on Sudanese Mesolithic and Neolithic ceramic assemblages. More or less contemporaneously, the first attempt to classify ancient Egyptian ceramic fabrics was organised into the ‘Vienna system’ which bec…
From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley
Persistent places are the locations where people aggregate, utilise and reuse natural or built features and develop their social identities and interactions. A network of persistent places forms interconnected persistent settlement patterns, which create a humanly made or storied landscape with a shared community-based memory of place. Although it has been demonstrated that persistent settlement patterns long preceded the onset of Neolithic farmi…
The Shaqadud Archaeological Project (Sudan): Exploring prehistoric cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands
The authors present preliminary results from a new research project based in Jebel Shaqadud, Sudan. Their findings highlight the potential for this region's archaeological record to expand our understanding of the adaptation strategies used by human groups in arid north-east African environments away from rivers and lakes during the Holocene. Furthermore, they present exceptionally early radiocarbon dates that push postglacial human occupation in…
The Stone Age of the Middle Nile Valley
The stretch of the Nile River upstream from the First Cataract corresponds to the Middle Nile and extends from southern Egypt to the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile in central Sudan. Its water basin is wider than that of the Lower Nile Valley and includes considerable tributaries and groundwater outlets springing in oases, wells, or boreholes, which could support human populations in otherwise uninhabitable arid and semi-arid lands…
Aperçu critique du Middle Stone Age en Afrique du Nord
Aterian
The Aterian is a North African late Middle Stone Age techno-complex. It is spread from the Atlantic coast in Morocco to the Middle Nile Valley in Sudan and from the Mediterranean hinterland to the Southern Sahara. Chronologically, it covers the period between c. 145,000 years bp and 29,000 bp, spanning across discontinuous, alternating dry (end of MIS 6 and MIS 4) and humid (MIS 5 and MIS 3) climatic phases. Few, but significant human remains ind…
Event review: Using multivariate analyses to interpret lithic variability: Contributions and limitations
A selection of papers presented at the Special Session 8 ‘Using multivariate analyses to interpret lithic variability: Contributions and limitations’ held during the 2018 MetroArchaeo conference (22-24 October 2018, Cassino, Italy) is published in the Journal of Lithic Studies. Multivariate statistical analyses are increasingly used to discern patterns of variability in archaeological materials and help with their interpretation. Commonly used on…
The Prehistory of the Sudan
The Prehistory of the Sudan
This volume addresses the Out-of-Africa dispersals of the earliest hominins and early anatomically modern humans, the last semi-sedentary, pottery-bearing hunters-fishers-gatherers, the early food producers and users of domestic plants and animals either local or imported from the Near East, and the presuppositions of the rise of the kingdoms of Kerma, Pharaonic Egypt, and Axum on the basis of the latest available data. Sudan played a crucial rol…
Humans, the Migrants
Technological variability in foragers’ pottery productions at the early-mid Holocene site of Sphinx, western part of Jebel Sabaloka, Sudan
Mid‐Holocene environmental change and human occupation at Sai Island, Northern Sudan
Holocene environmental change in the northern and central Nile Valley was controlled primarily by shifts in the Intertropical Convergence Zone over time, leading to changes in aridity and water availability for early occupants of the region. Although local environmental changes may help to motivate societal changes such as those in settlement patterns or technological productions, evidence from pedogenic carbonates at Sai Island, in northern Suda…
Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison
From Aterian Notch to Aterian Tang: How to Make a Technological Invention
The successful 'recipe' for a long-lasting tradition: Nubian ceramic assemblages from Sai Island (northern Sudan) from prehistory to the New Kingdom
Multi-stage dispersal of Southwest Asian domestic livestock and the path of pastoralism in the Middle Nile Valley
Palynological evidence of cultural and environmental connections in Sudanese Nubia during the Early and Middle Holocene
Southwest Asian domestic animals and plants in Africa: Routes, timing and cultural implications
High-Precision Radiocarbon Dating Application to Multi-Proxy Organic Materials from Late Foraging to Early Pastoral Sites in Upper Nubia, Sudan
The study area presented in this paper comprises two geographical entities in northern Upper Nubia located between the Second and the Third Cataract of the Nile River: Sai Island and the Amara West district, on the present left bank of the river. Four sites, three at Sai Island and one in the Amara West district, were excavated. They represent three distinct archaeological complexes, named Arkinian, Khartoum Variant, and Abkan, which encompass a …
Dispersals Out of Africa and Back to Africa: Modern origins in North Africa
Identification and evaluation of post-depositional mechanical traces on quartz assemblages: An experimental investigation
Humans and Water in Desert “Refugium” Areas: Palynological Evidence of Climate Oscillations and Cultural Developments in Early and Mid-Holocene Saharan Edges
This paper reports on two, very different, examples of evidence concerning "humans and water" as observed in the stratigraphic, archaeological and palynological studies carried out on Holocene deposits at the extreme limits of northern and southern Sahara
Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC: Ceramic productions at Sai Island, northern Sudan
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc, and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scien…
Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment, and Archaeology
Successes and failures of human dispersals from North Africa
Late Quaternary human settlement patterning in the Jebel Gharbi
Semi-permanent foragers in semi-arid environments of North Africa
Early Holocene foragers in North Africa provide unique responses to adaptational patterns of non-agricultural societies and they can offer intriguing answers to questions regarding relationships between sedentism, economy and sociocultural complexity. Three points are of major relevance for understanding late foragers in North Africa: first, fishing, sustained by reduced mobility, was a common practice at sites located along perennial rivers, suc…
Between the Mediterranean and the Sahara: Geoarchaeological reconnaissance in the Jebel Gharbi, Libya
Intensive survey and three sample sections at Jebel Gharbi in north-west Libya offer a new dated sequence of the environment, and the human presence within it, from the Middle Stone Age to the early Holocene. Hunter-gatherers were continuously active, including during the hitherto elusive Later Stone Age
An Alternative Way Towards Food Production: The Perspective from the Libyan Sahara
Identification and evaluation of post-depositional mechanical traces on quartz assemblages: An experimental investigation
The Aterian from the Jebel Gharbi (Libya): New Technological Perspectives from North Africa
The successful 'recipe' for a long-lasting tradition: Nubian ceramic assemblages from Sai Island (northern Sudan) from prehistory to the New Kingdom
High-Precision Radiocarbon Dating Application to Multi-Proxy Organic Materials from Late Foraging to Early Pastoral Sites in Upper Nubia, Sudan
The study area presented in this paper comprises two geographical entities in northern Upper Nubia located between the Second and the Third Cataract of the Nile River: Sai Island and the Amara West district, on the present left bank of the river. Four sites, three at Sai Island and one in the Amara West district, were excavated. They represent three distinct archaeological complexes, named Arkinian, Khartoum Variant, and Abkan, which encompass a …
Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC: Ceramic productions at Sai Island, northern Sudan
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc, and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scien…
Animal Exploitation and Pottery Technology During Pastoral Times: The Evidence From Uan Telocat, Libyan Sahara
The combination of artefactual with economic evidence of pastoralism in the Central Sahara, based on the recent excavations at Uan Telocat, a Pastoral site in the Tadrart Acacus, Libyan Sahara, where both ceramic and faunal indicators are present throughout the Pastoral period is undertaken. This rock shelter yielded a stratigraphic sequence with the main Pastoral occupations in the Tadrart Acacus. The results of the latest excavations provided i…
The Shaqadud Archaeological Project (Sudan): Exploring prehistoric cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands
The authors present preliminary results from a new research project based in Jebel Shaqadud, Sudan. Their findings highlight the potential for this region's archaeological record to expand our understanding of the adaptation strategies used by human groups in arid north-east African environments away from rivers and lakes during the Holocene. Furthermore, they present exceptionally early radiocarbon dates that push postglacial human occupation in…
Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison
From Aterian Notch to Aterian Tang: How to Make a Technological Invention
From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley
Persistent places are the locations where people aggregate, utilise and reuse natural or built features and develop their social identities and interactions. A network of persistent places forms interconnected persistent settlement patterns, which create a humanly made or storied landscape with a shared community-based memory of place. Although it has been demonstrated that persistent settlement patterns long preceded the onset of Neolithic farmi…
Dispersals Out of Africa and Back to Africa: Modern origins in North Africa
Humans and Water in Desert “Refugium” Areas: Palynological Evidence of Climate Oscillations and Cultural Developments in Early and Mid-Holocene Saharan Edges
This paper reports on two, very different, examples of evidence concerning "humans and water" as observed in the stratigraphic, archaeological and palynological studies carried out on Holocene deposits at the extreme limits of northern and southern Sahara
More than one way to perform archaeometric analyses on pottery. Case studies from prehistoric to Bronze Age Sudan
Sudanese archaeology boasts a long-standing tradition of studying pottery technology, including through archaeometric analyses. In the early 1970s, several international and Sudanese scholars conducted the first petrographic and geochemical studies on Sudanese Mesolithic and Neolithic ceramic assemblages. More or less contemporaneously, the first attempt to classify ancient Egyptian ceramic fabrics was organised into the ‘Vienna system’ which bec…
Mid‐Holocene environmental change and human occupation at Sai Island, Northern Sudan
Holocene environmental change in the northern and central Nile Valley was controlled primarily by shifts in the Intertropical Convergence Zone over time, leading to changes in aridity and water availability for early occupants of the region. Although local environmental changes may help to motivate societal changes such as those in settlement patterns or technological productions, evidence from pedogenic carbonates at Sai Island, in northern Suda…
Hunter-Gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara Before 12,000 Years Ago
This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's h…
News and Short Contributions
The sites are located on the eastern side of the Nile Valley, between 30 and 50 Km north of Khartoum. The material culture inculded a microlithic industry, grindstones, ceramics, and ostrish eggshell beads. Faunal remains suggested a subsistence economy based on hunting, fishing and gathering. Radiocarbon dates fall between the 8th and the end of 7th millenium B.P. Changes in material culture and settlement patterns were observed among the differ…
Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment, and Archaeology
Animal Exploitation and Pottery Technology During Pastoral Times: The Evidence From Uan Telocat, Libyan Sahara
The combination of artefactual with economic evidence of pastoralism in the Central Sahara, based on the recent excavations at Uan Telocat, a Pastoral site in the Tadrart Acacus, Libyan Sahara, where both ceramic and faunal indicators are present throughout the Pastoral period is undertaken. This rock shelter yielded a stratigraphic sequence with the main Pastoral occupations in the Tadrart Acacus. The results of the latest excavations provided i…
Crossing Deserts and Avoiding Seas: Aterian North African-European Relations
This article presents and discusses the most recent data on the Aterian in Africa and correlates them with the archaeological evidence from southwestern Europe. It provides an Africanist's interpretation of the cultural development of the Aterian in North Africa and considers one of the Aterian's putative passageways to Europe argued by the Out-of-Africa dispersal model--the Strait of Gibraltar. Several scenarios for Aterian interaction with sout…
An Alternative Way Towards Food Production: The Perspective from the Libyan Sahara
Saharan Rock Art: Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Iconography . Augustin F. C. Holl
Postcolonial criticism in one world archaeology: Where is North Africa's place
Late Quaternary human settlement patterning in the Jebel Gharbi
Semi-permanent foragers in semi-arid environments of North Africa
Early Holocene foragers in North Africa provide unique responses to adaptational patterns of non-agricultural societies and they can offer intriguing answers to questions regarding relationships between sedentism, economy and sociocultural complexity. Three points are of major relevance for understanding late foragers in North Africa: first, fishing, sustained by reduced mobility, was a common practice at sites located along perennial rivers, suc…
Between the Mediterranean and the Sahara: Geoarchaeological reconnaissance in the Jebel Gharbi, Libya
Intensive survey and three sample sections at Jebel Gharbi in north-west Libya offer a new dated sequence of the environment, and the human presence within it, from the Middle Stone Age to the early Holocene. Hunter-gatherers were continuously active, including during the hitherto elusive Later Stone Age
Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change
BACKGROUND: Approximately two hundred human burials were discovered on the edge of a paleolake in Niger that provide a uniquely preserved record of human occupation in the Sahara during the Holocene ( approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present). Called Gobero, this suite of closely spaced sites chronicles the rapid pace of biosocial change in the southern Sahara in response to severe climatic fluctuation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Two main oc…
Ecological Patterns in the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene in the Jebel Gharbi, Northern Libya: Chronology, Climate and Human Occupation
Shifting social networks along the Nile: Middle Holocene ceramic assemblages from Sai Island, Sudan
Il Sahara centro-orientale: Dalla preistoria ai tempi dei nomadi Tubu-The Central-Oriental Sahara: from prehistory to the times of the nomadic Tubus
Successes and failures of human dispersals from North Africa
Modern Human Desert Adaptations: A Libyan Perspective on the Aterian Complex
Hunter-Gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara Before 12,000 Years Ago
This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's h…
The Aterian from the Jebel Gharbi (Libya): New Technological Perspectives from North Africa
Aterian lithic technology and settlement system in the Jebel Gharbi, North-Western Libya
Identification and evaluation of post-depositional mechanical traces on quartz assemblages: An experimental investigation
Humans and Water in Desert “Refugium” Areas: Palynological Evidence of Climate Oscillations and Cultural Developments in Early and Mid-Holocene Saharan Edges
This paper reports on two, very different, examples of evidence concerning "humans and water" as observed in the stratigraphic, archaeological and palynological studies carried out on Holocene deposits at the extreme limits of northern and southern Sahara
Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC: Ceramic productions at Sai Island, northern Sudan
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc, and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scien…
Multi-stage dispersal of Southwest Asian domestic livestock and the path of pastoralism in the Middle Nile Valley
Palynological evidence of cultural and environmental connections in Sudanese Nubia during the Early and Middle Holocene
Southwest Asian domestic animals and plants in Africa: Routes, timing and cultural implications
Geography (40 works) · Archaeology (39 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (27 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 works) · Geology (19 works) · History (15 works) · Paleontology (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Holocene (11 works)