Abstract
The site of Fox Hill (SBK.W-20) constitutes the second locality in the Sixth Nile Cataract region where a large communal burial ground of Early Khartoum hunter-gatherers was partially uncovered. In several aspects, this cemetery resembles in its characteristics the Early Khartoum burial ground explored between 2012 and 2015 at the site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60), located some 4 km to the north-east. The co-occurrence of these burial grounds with intensively occupied coeval settlements as well as the characteristics of the burial rite enable us to interpret these complex sites not only as mere places of life and death, but also as centres of collective identity based on social memory.
Highlights
|122 Lenka Varadzinová and Ladislav Varadzin and Varadzin 2017; Varadzinová et al, in prep.)
In 2017 and 2018, we returned to another core site at Fox Hill (SBK.W-20) situated 4 km to the south-west of Sphinx to explore the cemetery detected there in 2011 (Suková and Varadzin 2012: 122–124)
The first proper exploration targeted at burial activities at Fox Hill was commenced in 2017 with excavation of two trenches on Terrace 3 (Fig. 1c, 1d): Trench (11 m2, max. depth 0.75 m), which was situated right next to Trench 3, and Trench (21 m2, max depth 0.6–0.75 m) delimited 11 metres or so further to the south; the exploration of the latter trench was completed in 2018.1aTrenches 3+21 and 22 were found to be located right within the limits of a burial ground used during Holocene prehistory for intensive and apparently long-term burying
Summary
|122 Lenka Varadzinová and Ladislav Varadzin and Varadzin 2017; Varadzinová et al, in prep.). We present the first characteristics of this recently explored late prehistoric burial ground as can be provided prior to completion of archaeological and anthropological analyses and, at the same time, reflect on its significance for the study of early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies in Central Sudan and beyond
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