Rock Art Surveys in the Sudanese Eastern Desert
Results of the 2018–2019 Atbai Survey Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20370499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julien Cooper (0000-0002-8621-9315, Macquarie University, corresponding author), Dorian Vanhulle (0000-0001-6654-915X, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Culture, Polish Academy of Science) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 189-208 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5133 • E-ISSN: 2514-0582 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03075133231211917 |
| OpenAlex | W4389089418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
The Sudanese Eastern Desert or the ‘Atbai’ is still largely unexplored from the point of view of rock art surveys. As part of the Atbai Survey Project’s fieldwork program, surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 identified new rock art sites in the deserts around Gebel Nahoganet. Findings included a large tableau of a boat ‘fleet’ along with numerous sites yielding faunal rock art and surface remains. While a generalized boat motif is relatively commonplace in the corpus of rock art from Egypt and Nubia, this specific type of boat encountered in this distant desert exhibits a number of unique features. Notably, the tableau is carved within the walls of a natural tunnel and the features and manner of its execution have few parallels elsewhere. This contribution introduces the hypothesis that these boat motifs may have been the products of local Nubian groups including the A-Group horizon ( c. 3800–3100 BCE)
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Geography · Geometry · Horizon · Parallels · Rock art · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Engineering · Mathematics · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |