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Technological variability in foragers’ pottery productions at the early-mid Holocene site of Sphinx, western part of Jebel Sabaloka, Sudan
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SYSNO ASEP 0533058 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Technological variability in foragers’ pottery productions at the early-mid Holocene site of Sphinx, western part of Jebel Sabaloka, Sudan Author(s) Garcea, E. A. A. (IT)
D'Ercole, G. (DE)
Sterba, J. H. (AT)
Dunne, J. (GB)
Manning, K. (GB)
Gillard, T. (GB)
Evershed, R. P. (GB)
Varadzin, Ladislav (ARU-G) RID, SAI, ORCID
Varadzinová, L. (CZ)Number of authors 9 Source Title Quaternary International. - : Elsevier - ISSN 1040-6182
Roč. 555, 30 July (2020), s. 110-125Number of pages 16 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords pottery production ; technological variability ; Jebel Sabaloka ; Sudan ; Early Khartoum culture ; Mesolithic Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Archaeology Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support ARU-G - RVO:67985912 UT WOS 000576620100002 EID SCOPUS 85079071165 DOI 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.01.020 Annotation The site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60) is located about 3.5 km from the present Nile in the western part of Jebel Sabaloka, upstream of the Sixth Nile Cataract, in Sudan. This site uniquely includes Early Khartoum (Mesolithic) artifacts with no intrusive elements and has been dated from the ninth to the end of the sixth millennium cal BC. Excavations at Trench 7, in particular, brought to light a 1.2-m thick deposit with the quantitatively and qualitatively richest artifactual materials. Analysis and classification of the pottery assemblage from this site have been conducted with the aim of observing manufacturing techniques and examining the correlation between pottery production, cultural change and chronological variability. We undertook visual examinations of the manufacturing techniques combined with petrographic (optical microscopy, OM) and chemical analyses (instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, iNAA), observations of manufacturing and decorative techniques, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS) on absorbed organic residues. The vertical distribution of the ceramic assemblage in Trench 7 reveals the existence of a relative sequence suggesting consistent technological variability throughout the site's occupation. Workplace Institute of Archaeology (Prague) Contact Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412 Year of Publishing 2021 Electronic address https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618220300215?via%3Dihub
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