Bronze age supply chains between ancient Egypt and Nubia revealed by lead isotope analysis of kohl samples

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79162-z" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79162-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79162-z" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-024-79162-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bronze age supply chains between ancient Egypt and Nubia revealed by lead isotope analysis of kohl samples

Original language description

While there is a considerable body of data regarding the sources of minerals employed in Bronze Age Egypt, the supply chains to Sudanese Lower Nubia are virtually unknown. This paper presents results of lead isotope analysis of 11 samples of kohl from C-group, Pan-grave and New Kingdom funerary contexts across the Debeira and Ashkeit areas in Sudanese Lower Nubia during the Bronze Age. The samples could be divided in two groups based on their lead isotope ratios. A comparison between the kohl samples from Sudanese Lower Nubia and galena ores from various mining sites on the Red Sea coast of Egypt indicated that some of the galena used in kohl mixtures in Sudanese Lower Nubia came from the Pharaonic mining site of Gebel el-Zeit. The second group of Nubian samples seems to have originated from an alternative galena source yet to be determined. This is the first time that kohl samples from Sudanese Lower Nubia are integrated into known northeast African networks of supply by using Lead isotope analysis.

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

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001352833400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85209480602