Our article presents a detailed Holocene archaeological sequence from the Nile Valley at
Kerma in Upper Nubia, northern Sudan. This sequence retraces the evolution of human …

Little is known about the introduction of domesticated crops in Sudan. Substantial early
evidence of the cereals wheat and barley has, until recently, been mainly restricted to the …

Archaeology in Sudan and Nubia has been greatly impacted by modern colonialism in
northeast Africa. In theory and practice, the discipline's history in the region includes …

When the archaeology of Predynastic Egypt was last appraised in this journal, Savage
(2001a, p. 101) expressed optimism that “a consensus appears to be develo** that …

Tetraploid emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccon) is a progenitor of the world's most
widely grown crop, hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum), as well as the direct ancestor …

The timing and extent of the adoption and exploitation of domesticates and their secondary
products, across Holocene North Africa, has long been the subject of debate. The three …

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of
the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a …

Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses. Development
is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa developed Europe; and thereby became …

A largely accepted paradigm in African recent prehistory considers pastoralism to be the
main subsistence source of food-producing communities along the Sudanese Nile valley …

Sourcing studies usually focus on interpreting movement from source to place of deposition.
These studies typically use materials like obsidian that lend themselves to chemical …