Four thousand years of pottery technology by foragers in Jebel Sabaloka, Middle Nile Valley (Sudan)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F24%3A00600463" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/24:00600463 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11210/24:10494803
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71777-2_4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71777-2_4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71777-2_4" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-71777-2_4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Four thousand years of pottery technology by foragers in Jebel Sabaloka, Middle Nile Valley (Sudan)
Original language description
Early-middle Holocene foragers in the Middle Nile Valley, in current Sudan, have long been known for their expertise in pottery manufacturing. Their most emblematic culture is called Early Khartoum (Sudan’s present capital city), which is widespread in central Sudan. Together with pottery, these foragers feature other innovative technical (ground stone tools, microlithic industries, and bone, horn, and shell tools) and social solutions (cemeteries) within (semi-)permanent occupations. Production of pottery vessels appeared since the beginning of Early Khartoum occupations. It displays high-quality manufactures consisting of vessels with surfaces mostly decorated with impressions and incisions. The earliest safe evidence comes from Jebel Sabaloka, a volcanic mountain upstream of the Sixth Nile Cataract, 80 km north of Khartoum, investigated since 2009 by the Charles University Sabaloka Expedition (Prague, Czech Republic). To date, 30 Early Khartoum sites have been recorded along the western fringe of Jebel Sabaloka and are dated from the ninth to the early fifth millennium BCE. One of them, Sphinx, 3.5 km from the Nile River, was extensively excavated with 11 trenches. Pottery at this site occurs throughout the 1.2-m thick deposit, increasing from the lower to the upper levels. Analyses of pottery technology aimed at correlating cultural change to technological and chronological variability. This paper aims at observing the transformative technology of the production and use of pottery vessels for over four millennia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-06488S" target="_blank" >GA23-06488S: Settlement and social networks of early Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Sahel: the case of Jebel Sabaloka in central Sudan</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Early pottery technologies among foragers in global perspective. Cultural transformations through material practice
ISBN
978-3-031-71776-5
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
87-115
Number of pages of the book
295
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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