Skin, hair and cloth remains from the ancient kerma civilization of Northern Sudan |
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Authors: | M L Ryder |
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Institution: | 1. AFRC Animal Breeding Research Organisation, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JQ, Scotland |
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Abstract: | Animal skins from human burials, dated 2nd and 3rd millenium BC, including haired skin bags lined with cloth, provided evidence of ox, goat and sheep, the cloth being made of plant fibre, possibly flax. Two thirds of the skin samples had evidence of vegetable tanning. Of 18 samples of livestock hair or skin 61% were from cattle with the remainder being about equally shared between goats and sheep. The hair diameter distributions indicated that all had been killed in late summer. Only two colours, black and white, were presented in each livestock species. That the sheep were of hair type accords with the use of plant fibre in the cloth, and is in keeping with the later appearance of fleeced sheep in the Egyptian New Kingdom. |
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Keywords: | Kerma nubia cloth plant fibre skin hair fleece cattle goat sheep |
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