Cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands during African Humid Period. Insights from Jebel Shaqadud, Sudan

0583876 - ARÚ 2024 CZ eng A - Abstrakt
Varadzin, Ladislav - Varadzinová, Lenka - Ambrose, S. H. - Hamdeen, H. M. - Hošek, J. - McCool, J.-P. - Juřičková, L. - Pokorná, Adéla
Cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands during African Humid Period. Insights from Jebel Shaqadud, Sudan.
Mikulov Anthropology Meeting III. Abstract book. Brno: Institute of Archaeology Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, 2023 - (Boriová, S.; Herčík, O.). s. 15. ISBN 978-80-7524-067-5.
[Mikulov Anthropology Meeting /3./. 13.09.2023-15.09.2023, Mikulov]
Grant ostatní: AV ČR(CZ) LQ300022002
Program: Prémie Lumina quaeruntur
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985912
Klíčová slova: cultural adaptation * African Humid Period * Sudan
Obor OECD: Archaeology
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Jebel Shaqadud preserves important archaeological relics that in the territory of today’s Sahel best illustrate prehistoric cultural adaptations that did not depend on aquatic food resources. The region is famous for what has been known as the Shaqadud site complex investigated for the last time forty years ago by the Sudanese-American expedition (Anthony Marks, Abbas Muhammed-Ali, and their colleagues). This expedition documented prehistoric stratigraphies up to seven metres thick and dated between ca. 6,200 and 2,000 cal BC. In 2021, an international inter-disciplinary team directed by the first author of this paper resumed archaeological investigation of this area. Here we present the first findings of the 2021, 2022 and 2023 field campaigns and pilot AMS radiocarbon dates that shed new and surprising light onto the occupation and environment of both this area and the eastern Sahelian hinterlands.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351869