Patterns of Violence in the Pre-Neolithic Nile Valley

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985912:_____/23:00574280

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-023-09533-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-023-09533-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09533-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10437-023-09533-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Patterns of Violence in the Pre-Neolithic Nile Valley

Original language description

Burial assemblages inform us about the biology of past societies, social relations, and ritual and symbolic behavior. However, they also allow us to examine the circumstances of death and social violence. A high level of intergroup violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers is well-documented in some times and places but is extremely rare in others. Here we present an analysis of the perimortem injury to skeleton PD8 at the site of Sphinx in Central Sudan. This burial, attributed to the Early Khartoum (Khartoum Mesolithic) culture, radiocarbon dated between 8637 and 8463 cal BP, bears evidence of a perimortem sharp force trauma caused by penetration of an unshaped, fractured non-human bone between the right scapula and the rib cage. Among more than 200 anthropologically assessed human burials from the early Holocene Nile Valley reviewed in this paper, PD8 provides the only documented evidence of violence resulting in death. This rare case of death differs from the numerous cases of intergroup conflict documented in terminal Pleistocene burial grounds in Lower Nubia. This suggests different patterns of violence and strategies of conflict resolution in the pre-Neolithic (terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene) Nile Valley. We attribute this difference in the prevalence of interpersonal trauma to climatic and environmental conditions, territorial boundary defense, and post-marital residence practices before and after the Younger Dryas&apos; arid millennium (~ 12,800-11,600 BP).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10620 - Other biological topics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-03207S" target="_blank" >GA17-03207S: Communities and resources in late prehistory of Jebel Sabaloka, central Sudan: from analysis to synthesis</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

African Archaeological Review

ISSN

0263-0338

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

40

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

597-619

UT code for WoS article

001046949300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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