Abstract
The Landscape and Archaeology of Jebel Sabaloka and the Sixth Nile Cataract, Sudan
Highlights
Jebel Sabaloka emerges like a rocky island out of the dusty plains of Central Sudan circa 80 km downstream of the confluence of the Blue and White Niles at Khartoum
Despite the relatively short distance from Khartoum, this potential has begun to be fully examined only as late as 2009 when Jebel Sabaloka became the object of a geoarchaeological project of the Czech Institute of Egyptology (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague) and the Institute of Geology (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
This paper presents an overview of the findings of the first phase of the geoarchaeological research at Jebel Sabaloka and its vicinity and evaluates the significance of the varied landscape units for occupation and exploitation in the past
Summary
Jebel Sabaloka (the Sabaloka Mountains) emerges like a rocky island out of the dusty plains of Central Sudan circa 80 km downstream of the confluence of the Blue and White Niles at Khartoum. It constitutes an area of great potential for landscape and geoarchaeological investigation for two reasons. During the first two seasons, the mountains and their vicinity on both banks of the Nile were surveyed for the first time on a large scale from the point of view of landscape archaeology with the object to record any and all remains of former human occupation and presence (Suková et al 2010, 2011). This paper presents an overview of the findings of the first phase of the geoarchaeological research at Jebel Sabaloka and its vicinity and evaluates the significance of the varied landscape units for occupation and exploitation in the past
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