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The prehistory of the Sudan / Elena A. A. Garcea.

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This volume addresses the Out-of-Africa dispersals of the earliest hominins and early anatomically modern humans, the last semi-sedentary, pottery-bearing hunters-fishers-gatherers, the early food producers and users of domestic plants and animals either local or imported from the Near East, and the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Garcea, Elena A. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:SpringerBriefs in archaeology.
Subjects:
Sudan > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Sudan.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • About the Author
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Paleoenvironments and Sudan's Geographical Spheres of Influence
  • Geographical and Hydrographic Setting
  • Past Climate and Environment
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 2: Humans, the Migrants
  • The Contribution from Sudan to the Out of Africa Dispersals: Not Just a Corridor
  • The Early Stone Age and Early Hominins
  • The Middle Stone Age and Early Homo sapiens
  • Out of Africa by Anatomically Modern Humans
  • Pleistocene Fossil Remains of Homo sapiens.
  • The Later Stone Age in the Terminal Pleistocene
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 3: The Last Hunter-Gatherers and Their Settlement Systems
  • The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Cultural Complexes
  • The Early/Middle Holocene Cultural Complexes
  • Settlement Strategy and Sedentism
  • Animal and Plant Management and Diet
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 4: The Last Hunter-Gatherers and Their Technical Knowledge Accumulation
  • Systematic Production of Pottery
  • Lithic Industries
  • Bone, Horn and Shell Industries
  • Burial Customs and Funerary Practices
  • Concluding Remarks.
  • Chapter 5: Food Production: Raising and Trading Domestic Animals and Plants
  • A Time of Changes
  • The Cultural Complexes
  • Settlement Strategy and Nomadism
  • Scenarios of Domestic Livestock Adoption
  • Near Eastern and Other Routes of Domesticates
  • Faunal Spectra
  • Plants: Food and Rituals
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 6: Cultural and Physical Anthropological Hallmarks of Early Food Producers
  • Technological Continuities and Discontinuities in Manufacturing Processes
  • Pottery
  • Lithic Industries
  • Bone Industries
  • Human and Animal Figurines
  • Ornaments.
  • Physical Anthropological Hallmarks of Early Food Producers
  • Cemeteries
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 7: Epilogue or Premise? Outcomes of the Later Prehistory
  • Prehistory's Epilogue and History's Premise
  • A-Group
  • Pre-Kerma
  • Butana and Gash Groups
  • Late Leiterband and Handessi Cultures
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 8: Final Reflections
  • References
  • Index.

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