A Neolithic Cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach: Excavations at Site R12

Salvatori, Sandro; Usai, Donatella

doi:doi:10.30861/9781407303000

A Neolithic Cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach: Excavations at Site R12

Sandro Salvatori and Donatella Usai 2008 © BAR Publishing

The cemetery at R12 was one of a number of Neolithic sites found by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society's Northern Dongola Reach Survey between 1993 and 1997 on the east bank of the Nile.

Series

BAR pre-2020
BAR International Series pre-2020

ISBN(s)

9781407333113 (ebook)
9781407303000 (paperback)

BAR Number

S1814

Subject

Africa
Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
Neolithic / Chalcolithic
Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Plates
Preface
Acknowledgement
1. A Neolithic Cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach (Sudan): Excavations at Site R12
2. Pottery for the dead: a survey of the ceramic grave goods
3. Bright and Colourful: The Jewellery of R12
4. Lunates and micro-lunates, cores and flakes: the lithic industry of R12
5. Other Stone Tools: Axes, Mace-heads and Grinding Stones
6. Tools, ornaments and bucrania: the animal remains
7. The animal-bone tools
8. The Human Skeletal Analysis
9. Dental Morphometric Analyses of the Neolithic Human Skeletal Sample from R12: Characterizations and Contrasts
10. Cemetery R12: an isotope approach
11. Miscellanea
12. Social structure of the R12 population: some hypotheses
13. Relative and absolute chronology of R12 cemetery
14. R12 and the Neolithic of Sudan. New perspectives
15. Summary and Some Conclusions
16. A Neolithic Cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach (Sudan): Grave Catalogue
17. The Skeletal Catalogue
18. Catalogue of the animal remains
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A Neolithic Cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach: Excavations at Site R12

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