The Nubian Past

Author : David N. Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134200863

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This cutting-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.

Author : David N. Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134200870

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The Nubian Past by David N. Edwards Pdf

This cutting-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.

Author : Geoff Emberling,Bruce Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190496272

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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia by Geoff Emberling,Bruce Williams Pdf

The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the region's role as neighbor, trade partner, and enemy of ancient Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement, economy, political organization, and religious ideologies were often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic, and predominantly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Near East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on the histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an international group of scholars on a wide variety of topics that relate to the history and archaeology of the region. After important introductory chapters on the history of research in Nubia and on its climate and physical environment, the largest part of the volume focuses on the sequence of cultures that lead almost to the present day. Several cross-cutting themes are woven through these chapters, including essays on desert cultures and on Nubians in Egypt. Eleven final chapters synthesize subjects across all historical phases, including gender and the body, economy and trade, landscape archaeology, iron working, and stone quarrying.

Author : John G. Kennedy
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9774249550

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Nubian Ceremonial Life by John G. Kennedy Pdf

Reveals and discusses some of the important and distinctive aspects of Nubian culture. This study contains discussions on the psychology of death ceremonies, the nature of 'taboo,' and the importance of trance curing ceremonies.

Author : Rennan Lemos,Samantha Tipper
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789698985

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Current Perspectives in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology by Rennan Lemos,Samantha Tipper Pdf

This book brings together papers presented at the 2nd Sudan Studies Research Conference, held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2018. The papers collected here focus on early administrative and mortuary material culture in the Nile valley and adjacent areas.

Author : Aleya Rouchdy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348318

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Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt by Aleya Rouchdy Pdf

The displacement of the Egyptian Nubians from their ancient lands and their resettlement deeper in the land of Egypt in 1964 had an impact on Nubian culture and the Nubian language. Contemporary Egyptian Nubian consists of two dialects, Fadicca and Matoki. After the resettlement of Nubians, the interactions between speakers of the two Nubian dialects and speakers of Arabic increased. Nubian, an East Sudanic language, came into contact with a dominant Semitic language, Arabic. How has this increased contact affected the Nubian language in Egypt? The aim of this work is to examine from the perspective of a 'language-contact situation' the impact of the resettlement on the future of the Nubian language. The comparative data on the Nubian situation will add an important contribution to our fund of knowledge on processes of language contact. This is the first sociolinguistic study of the Nubian language from such a perspective.

Author : Hassan Dafalla
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010559683

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The Nubian Exodus by Hassan Dafalla Pdf

Author : Henriette Hafsaas
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685711689

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Dotawo: a Journal of Nubian Studies 8 by Henriette Hafsaas Pdf

Author : Marjorie M. Fisher,Peter Lacovara,Salima Ikram,Sue D’Auria
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649033970

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Ancient Nubia by Marjorie M. Fisher,Peter Lacovara,Salima Ikram,Sue D’Auria Pdf

A lushly illustrated gazetteer of the archaeological sites of southern Egypt and northern Sudan and named a 2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology Book For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia’s remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration. Over the past century, particularly during this last generation, scholars have begun to focus more attention on the fascinating cultures of ancient Nubia, ironically prompted by the construction of large dams that have flooded vast tracts of the ancient land. This book attempts to document some of what has recently been discovered about ancient Nubia, with its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and thereby to give us a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.

Author : P.L. Shinnie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136164736

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Ancient Nubia by P.L. Shinnie Pdf

First published in 1996. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological civil servant and an academic. The archaeology and ancient history of Nubia has not been well known until very recently and the book is planned to fill a gap by making this story more widely known. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological civil servant and an academic. The archaeology and ancient history of Nubia has not been well known until very recently and the book is planned to fill a gap by making this story more widely known.

Author : Simmons Adam
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950192656

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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 6: Miscellanea Nubiana by Simmons Adam Pdf

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and the critical and theoretical approaches of postcolonial and African studies. Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in African studies. It offers a crossroads where papyrus can meet the internet, scribes meet critical thinkers, and the promises of growing nations meet the accomplishments of older kingdoms.Bringing together a collection of articles that were first presented as papers at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds in 2016 and additional articles, the sixth volume of Dotawo showcases a diverse richness of topics concerning Nubia. The articles within this volume attest to the cultural, linguistic, geographic, and demographic diversity witnessed throughout Nubian history nationally and internationally amongst its neighbours, both near and far.

Author : William Carruthers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501766466

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Flooded Pasts by William Carruthers Pdf

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War. As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption. Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome.

Author : Dietrich Raue
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1133 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110420388

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Handbook of Ancient Nubia by Dietrich Raue Pdf

Numerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights. The contributions to this handbook illuminate our current understanding of the cultural history of this fascinating region, including its interconnections to the natural world.

Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UOM:39015019047292

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Nubian Culture Past and Present by Tomas Hägg Pdf

Author : Sarah M. Schellinger
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789146608

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Nubia by Sarah M. Schellinger Pdf

Drawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia. Nubia, the often-overlooked southern neighbor of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians’ religious, social, economic, and cultural histories, from their nomadic origins during the Stone Ages to their rise to power during the Napatan and Meroitic periods, and it concludes with the recent struggles for diplomacy in North Sudan. Situated among the ancient superpowers of Egypt, Aksum, and the Greco-Roman world, Nubia’s connections with these cultures shaped the region’s history through colonialism and cultural entanglement. Sarah M. Schellinger presents the Nubians through their archaeological and textual remains, reminding readers that they were a rich and dynamic civilization in their own right.