Sabrina R Rampersad
Biographic Data
| ID | 5414610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabrina R Rampersad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabrina R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rampersad |
| SIGNATURE | RAMPERSAD S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1295-5245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Potmarks as a Rationing System on Egyptian Food Producing Sites
In this multidisciplinary discussion, the author advances the hypothesis that pre-firing potmarks placed externally onto bread moulds constituted a locally regulated rationing or wage payment system throughout Egypt in Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic times. In the absence of both formal writing and a centralized government, the invention of potmarks is seen as an administrative ‘first response’, an adaptive mechanism in the truest Darwinian s…
Commodity Branding and Textual Potmarks
Departing from the traditional approaches taken toward ancient Egyptian potmark interpretation, this paper draws on modern conventions of commodity branding to show how internally placed textual markings on bread moulds functioned as brands for marking the surfaces of select loaves at Tell Gabbara during the late Second Dynasty. Specific properties of three potmarks are examined with the aims of elucidating their brand characteristics and showing…
Targeting the Jamaican Ostionoid
Status of Jamaican Prehistory and Redware Studies The study of Jamaica's earliest prehistory has yet to receive concentrated and widespread attention from archaeologists. One reason for this is that, until recently, too few professional archaeologists have existed on the island, and fewer still have been tempted by, or equipped for, the study of the island's prehistory. This situation is changing gradually as university-trained archaeologists con…
Caribbean archaeology and material culture
(2009). Caribbean archaeology and material culture. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 2-4
Introducing Tell Gabbara
Tell Gabbara, a previously undocumented site in the Sharqiya province, has recently produced evidence of a Naqada III settlement in the latest phase of its occupation. The economic nature of the community is beginning to emerge as a highly productive agricultural one in which grain harvesting and bread production played important roles, perhaps within the context of a larger redistributive system. This is supported by an archaeological record con…
Report of the First Field Season at Tell el-Masha'la, Egypt, 2002
Tell el-Masha'la is situated in the Sharqiya province in the eastern Nile Delta (fig. 1), about 15 km NNE of the modern town of Abu Kebir. In December 2002, a small team of investigators that I directed, conducted preliminary excavations at the site,1 in order to gauge its archaeological potential for future long term investigation and to confirm the existence of a Late Predynastic and an Early Dynastic presence previously noted there. Although n…
Relationships of the Nubian A-Group
for evidence of cultural relationships. The geographic areas from which material is drawn for comparison are: Lower Nubia, including the Nubian Desert, Egypt's Eastern and Western Deserts, including the oases, the Dongola Reach, the Central Sudan, the Butana, the Atbai, the Gash Delta, the Wadi Howar, the Wadi Shaw, and the Laqiya region. Also considered are the Tibesti region of northwestern Chad and the Ennedi area of eastern Chad
Targeting the Jamaican Ostionoid
Status of Jamaican Prehistory and Redware Studies The study of Jamaica's earliest prehistory has yet to receive concentrated and widespread attention from archaeologists. One reason for this is that, until recently, too few professional archaeologists have existed on the island, and fewer still have been tempted by, or equipped for, the study of the island's prehistory. This situation is changing gradually as university-trained archaeologists con…
Relationships of the Nubian A-Group
for evidence of cultural relationships. The geographic areas from which material is drawn for comparison are: Lower Nubia, including the Nubian Desert, Egypt's Eastern and Western Deserts, including the oases, the Dongola Reach, the Central Sudan, the Butana, the Atbai, the Gash Delta, the Wadi Howar, the Wadi Shaw, and the Laqiya region. Also considered are the Tibesti region of northwestern Chad and the Ennedi area of eastern Chad
Report of the First Field Season at Tell el-Masha'la, Egypt, 2002
Tell el-Masha'la is situated in the Sharqiya province in the eastern Nile Delta (fig. 1), about 15 km NNE of the modern town of Abu Kebir. In December 2002, a small team of investigators that I directed, conducted preliminary excavations at the site,1 in order to gauge its archaeological potential for future long term investigation and to confirm the existence of a Late Predynastic and an Early Dynastic presence previously noted there. Although n…
Introducing Tell Gabbara
Tell Gabbara, a previously undocumented site in the Sharqiya province, has recently produced evidence of a Naqada III settlement in the latest phase of its occupation. The economic nature of the community is beginning to emerge as a highly productive agricultural one in which grain harvesting and bread production played important roles, perhaps within the context of a larger redistributive system. This is supported by an archaeological record con…
Targeting the Jamaican Ostionoid
Status of Jamaican Prehistory and Redware Studies The study of Jamaica's earliest prehistory has yet to receive concentrated and widespread attention from archaeologists. One reason for this is that, until recently, too few professional archaeologists have existed on the island, and fewer still have been tempted by, or equipped for, the study of the island's prehistory. This situation is changing gradually as university-trained archaeologists con…
Caribbean archaeology and material culture
(2009). Caribbean archaeology and material culture. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 2-4
Commodity Branding and Textual Potmarks
Departing from the traditional approaches taken toward ancient Egyptian potmark interpretation, this paper draws on modern conventions of commodity branding to show how internally placed textual markings on bread moulds functioned as brands for marking the surfaces of select loaves at Tell Gabbara during the late Second Dynasty. Specific properties of three potmarks are examined with the aims of elucidating their brand characteristics and showing…
Potmarks as a Rationing System on Egyptian Food Producing Sites
In this multidisciplinary discussion, the author advances the hypothesis that pre-firing potmarks placed externally onto bread moulds constituted a locally regulated rationing or wage payment system throughout Egypt in Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic times. In the absence of both formal writing and a centralized government, the invention of potmarks is seen as an administrative ‘first response’, an adaptive mechanism in the truest Darwinian s…
Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works) · Business (2 works)