The First Notes on the Second Khartoum Mesolithic Cemetery at Jebel Sabaloka (Sudan)

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  • Lenka Varadzinová Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Celetná 20, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
  • Ladislav Varadzina Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Celetná 20, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic; Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Letenská 4, 118 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2650-6168

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23858/APa58.2020.007

Keywords:

Communal burial grounds, early Holocene hunter-gatherers, Early Khartoum culture, Sixth Nile Cataract, Sudan

Abstract

The site of Fox Hill (SBK.W-20) constitutes the second locality in the Sixth Nile Cataract region where a large communal burial ground of Early Khartoum hunter-gatherers was partially uncovered. In several aspects, this cemetery resembles in its characteristics the Early Khartoum burial ground explored between 2012 and 2015 at the site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60), located some 4 km to the north-east. The co-occurrence of these burial grounds with intensively occupied coeval settlements as well as the characteristics of the burial rite enable us to interpret these complex sites not only as mere places of life and death, but also as centres of collective identity based on social memory.

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2020-07-27

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Varadzinová, L. ., & Varadzina, L. . (2020). The First Notes on the Second Khartoum Mesolithic Cemetery at Jebel Sabaloka (Sudan). Archaeologia Polona, 58, 121 –. https://doi.org/10.23858/APa58.2020.007

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Vol. 58 (2020): The Prehistory of North-East Africa Volume Dedicated to Prof. Michał Kobusiewicz on His 80th Birth

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