Valancius, Mantas;
Quinn, Patrick;
Brass, Michael;
Vella Gregory, I;
Adam, Ahmed;
Dunne, Julie;
Evershed, Richard P;
(2023)
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan.
African Archaeological Review
10.1007/s10437-023-09552-7.
(In press).
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Abstract
The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the present study, predominantly final phase pottery sherds from the first millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD (Assemblage 3) have been analyzed via a combination of thin section petrography and instrumental geochemistry to determine their raw materials and place of manufacture and reconstruct their manufacturing technology. Organic residue analysis was also conducted to identify the products processed within vessels found at the site. The results suggest the existence of a well-developed local ceramic craft tradition that persisted for over one thousand years. Pots from Assemblage 3 were used to process, store, and consume animal and plant products, thus reinforcing emerging evidence for early agro-pastoral activities.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10437-023-09552-7 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09552-7 |
| Language: | English |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176955 |
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