New radiocarbon dates for postglacial reoccupation of the Sudanese Nile

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F23%3A00570489" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/23:00570489 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11210/23:10458775

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912300001X" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912300001X</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107953" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107953</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

New radiocarbon dates for postglacial reoccupation of the Sudanese Nile

Original language description

Radiocarbon dates from secure cultural contexts along the Sudanese Nile are crucial for understanding the potential role of the Nile as a corridor for postglacial human dispersal across northern Africa. Dates from this region show reoccupation of the Sudanese Nile south of the Second Nile Cataract was delayed by 0.4-0.7 ka compared with the Sahara, where a dramatic increase in the number of radiocarbon dates suggests a massive colonisation of the previously hyper-arid region as early as 10.9-10.6 ka. We present a series of 44 radiocarbon dates from the site of Sphinx at the Sixth Nile Cataract in central Sudan that moves the beginnings of postglacial reoccupation of the Sudanese Nile from 10.2 to 10.7 ka and synchronizes occupation here with the first wave of early Holocene human expansion across northern Africa. These new dates support the role of the Nile as a corridor for expansion from sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to radiocarbon dates, this study also presents evidence for expansion from material culture. Our data show that the early Holocene Early Khartoum culture, which includes one of the earliest pottery traditions in Africa, appears in central Sudan as a “package” and may have been brought into the region from unknown settlement enclaves located further to the south, possibly in the upper White Nile or Blue Nile. The four-millennia-long and nearly continuous sequence of dates from Sphinx attests to stability of hunter-gatherer settlement around the Sixth Nile Cataract. It also suggests adaptability and resilience of local hunter-gatherers in the face of climatic and environmental fluctuations that affected northern Africa during the early to middle Holocene.

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

<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

Quaternary Science Reviews

ISSN

0277-3791

e-ISSN

1873-457X

Volume of the periodical

303

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1 March

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

107953

UT code for WoS article

000932770200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147331590