Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island,Northern Sudan,from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC |
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| Authors: | G D'Ercole G Eramo E A A Garcea I M Muntoni J R Smith |
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| Institution: | 1. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Egypt and Levant, Vienna, Austria;2. Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Bari, Italy;3. Department of Letters and Philosophy, University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Cassino, Italy;4. Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia, Centro Operativo per l'Archeologia della Daunia, Foggia, Italy;5. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc , and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scientific gap exists for African pottery, which this paper aims to bridge with new and compelling results. |
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| Keywords: | Sai Island Holocene Sudan raw materials ceramic technology Khartoum Variant Abkan Pre‐Kerma |
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