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Author Mallinson, M. D. S., author

Title Road archaeology in the Middle Nile. Volume 2, Excavations from Meroe to Atbara 1994 / by Michael Mallinson and Laurence Smith
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Sudan Archaeological Research Society publication ; 12
Publication (Sudan Archaeological Research Society) ; 12.
Contents Preface (Michael Mallinson); Site List; 1. Introduction and Summary of the Test Excavations (Michael Mallinson); 2. Site Descriptions (Fathi Abdel Hamid Salih Khidr, Salima Ikram, John MacGinnis, Joyce Filer and Francis Thornton); 3. Small Finds from the Surface Survey and from Test Excavations excluding Gabati Cemetery (Laurence Smith); 4. Report on the Pottery from the Test Excavations: Sites 101.4, 112.3, 112.4, 118FS2, 153.8, 155.4, 165BM, 166.2 and 170.1 (Laurence Smith); 5. Gabati Basketry and Cordage (Willemina Wendrich); 6. The Leather Samples from Test Excavations at Gabati (site 159.2) (Barbara Wills); 7. Analysis of tanning agents from the excavated leather samples (David Thickett); 8. Gabati grave goods from the Test Excavations and the consideration of funerary practices (Laurence Smith); 9. Bioarchaeological Report from the Excavations from Meroe to Atbara 1994 (Rebecca Whiting); 10. The Animal Remains (Jane Sanford Gaastra with a contribution by Salima Ikram); 11. Environmental Material from the Begrawiya-Atbara Survey 1994 (Chris Stevens and Dorian Q Fuller); Bibliography; Arabic summary
Summary Reports on the findings of rescue excavations carried out by SARS in 1994 in advance of the construction of the North Challenge Road, Sudan. The excavation area encompassed from opposite the Pyramids of Meroe to Atbara
Notes Previously issued in print: 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 2, 2018)
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Sudan.
Roads -- Sudan -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Roads
SUBJECT Sudan -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129603
Subject Sudan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Laurence, author
Sudan Archaeological Research Society, associated with work.
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784916471
9781784916473
Other Titles Excavations from Meroe to Atbara 1994