Format:
Online Ressource (1 volume)
ISBN:
020348276X
,
9780203482766
Content:
Annotation
Content:
Nubia, Sudan and Sudanic Africa -- Hunters, fishers and gatherers (c. 10,000-5,000 bc) -- The neolithic : developing complexity and expanding worlds (c. 5000-3000 bc) -- Kerma and bronze age Kush -- The Kushite revival : the xxvth dynasty and the kingdom of Napata -- Meroitic Kush (c. 300 bc-350 ad) -- Post-Meroitic transitions (c.350 ad-550) -- Medieval Nubia (c.500 ad-1500) -- Post-medieval : Sudan and Islam (c.1500 ad-1900).
Content:
Thiscutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most spectacular archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa is examined here by an author with extensive experience in this field. The geographical range of the book extends through the Nubian north, the Middle Nile Basin, and includes what has become the modern Sudan. Using period-based chapters, the region's long-term history is traced and a potential for a more broadly framed and inclusive 'historical archaeology' of Sudan's more recent past is explored. This text breaks new ground in its move beyond the Egyptocentric and more traditional culture-histories of Nubia, often isolated in Africanist research, and it relocates the early civilizations and their archaeology within their Sudanic Africa context. This is a captivating study of the area's history, and will inform and enthral all students and researchers of Archaeology and Egyptology
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
9786610048526
Additional Edition:
6610048525
Additional Edition:
9780415369879
Additional Edition:
0415369878
Additional Edition:
9780415369886
Additional Edition:
0415369886
Additional Edition:
9781134200870
Additional Edition:
1134200870
Additional Edition:
9781134200825
Additional Edition:
113420082X
Additional Edition:
9781134200863
Additional Edition:
1134200862
Additional Edition:
0415369878
Additional Edition:
0415369886
Additional Edition:
0415369878
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Edwards, David N Nubian past London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
Language:
English
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