THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANCIENT NUBIA PDF
Preview THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANCIENT NUBIA
The Oxford Handbook of A N C I E N T N U B I A T h e Ox for d H a n dbo ok of ANCIENT NUBIA Edited by GEOFF EMBERLING and BRUCE BEYER WILLIAMS 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Emberling, Geoff, editor. | Williams, Bruce, 1943- editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of Ancient Nubia / edited by Geoff Emberling and Bruce Beyer Williams. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020022666 | ISBN 9780190496272 (hardback) | ISBN 9780197521830 (epub) | ISBN 9780190496296 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Nubia—Civilization. | Nubia—Antiquities. | Excavations (Archaeology)—Nubia. Classification: LCC DT159.6.N83 O94 2020 | DDC 939/.78—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022666 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America Contents List of Contributors xi Nubia, a Brief Introduction 1 Bruce Beyer Williams and Geoff Emberling PART I CONTEXTS FOR NUBIAN STUDIES 1. History of Archaeological Work in the Middle Nile Region 7 Salah Mohamed Ahmed 2. Past, Present, Future: The Archaeology of Nubia 29 Claudia Näser 3. Geology of Nubia and Surrounding Regions 49 James A. Harrell 4. Holocene Environments in Northeast Africa 63 Martin Williams PART II NUBIA: A DEEP HISTORY 5. Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers of Nubia 81 Mirosław Masojć 6. From Foraging to Food Producing: The Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Middle Nile Valley 101 Donatella Usai 7. The A-Group and 4th Millennium bce Nubia 125 Maria Carmela Gatto 8. The Pre-Kerma Culture and the Beginning of the Kerma Kingdom 143 Matthieu Honegger vi contents 9. The C-Group People in Lower Nubia: Cattle Pastoralists on the Frontier between Egypt and Kush 157 Henriette Hafsaas 10. Kush in the Wider World during the Kerma Period 179 Bruce Beyer Williams 11. The Cities of Kerma and Pnubs-Dokki Gel 201 Charles Bonnet 12. The Eastern Cemetery of Kerma 213 Charles Bonnet and Matthieu Honegger 13. Pan-Grave and Medjay: At the Intersection of Archaeology and History 227 Kate Liszka and Aaron de Souza 14. From Hunters to Herders: The Libyan Desert in Prehistoric Times 251 Friederike Jesse 15. Egyptian Fortresses and the Colonization of Lower Nubia in the Middle Kingdom 271 Laurel Bestock 16. Nubians in Egypt from the Early Dynastic Period to the New Kingdom 289 Georg K. Meurer 17. Human Adaptation to Environmental Change in the Northern Dongola Reach 309 Derek A. Welsby 18. Egyptian Conquest and Administration of Nubia 327 Dominique Valbelle 19. The Amun Cult and its Development in Nubia 343 Luc Gabolde 20. The Nubian Experience of Egyptian Domination during the New Kingdom 369 Stuart Tyson Smith 21. History and the Kushite Royal Inscriptions 395 Jeremy Pope contents vii 22. The Napatan Neo-Kushite State 1: The Intermediate Period and Second Empire 411 Bruce Beyer Williams 23. The Napatan Neo-Kushite State 2: Eclipse and Revival in the Later Napatan Period; Conditions in the State 433 Bruce Beyer Williams 24. Jebel Barkal: “Karnak” of Kush 449 Timothy Kendall and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed 25. Nubians in Egypt during the 25th Dynasty 475 Julia Budka 26. Kushites in Egypt, 664 bce–14 ce: Egypt and Kush in the Borderlands of Lower Nubia 491 Kathryn Howley 27. The Meroitic Heartland 511 Pawel Wolf and Ulrike Nowotnick 28. The City of Meroe 545 Krzysztof Grzymski 29. The Royal and Elite Cemeteries at Meroe 563 Janice W. Yellin 30. Death and Burial in the Kingdom of Meroe 589 Vincent Francigny 31. Prolegomena to the Study of Meroitic Art 605 Janice W. Yellin 32. Language and Writing in the Kingdom of Meroe 653 Claude Rilly 33. The Eastern Desert in the 1st Millennium bce and 1st Millennium ce 671 Andrea Manzo 34. Greek and Roman Views of Ancient Nubia 697 Stanley M. Burstein viii contents 35. The X-Group Period in Lower Nubia 713 Rachael J. Dann 36. Post-Meroe in Upper Nubia 731 Mahmoud El-Tayeb 37. The History of Medieval Nubia 759 Giovanni R. Ruffini 38. Nubian Texts, Nubian Lives 773 Giovanni R. Ruffini 39. Language Use and Literacy in Late Antique and Medieval Nubia 787 Adam Łajtar and Grzegorz Ochała 40. The Topography of Power in Medieval Nubia 807 Bogdan Żurawski 41. The Archaeology of Medieval Nubian Kingdoms 829 Artur Obłuski 42. Arts and Crafts of the Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia 847 Dobrochna Zielińska 43. Islam in the Funj and Ottoman Periods in Sudan: A Historical and Archaeological Approach 875 Intisar Soghayroun 44. Islamic Nubian Kingdoms 893 Jay Spaulding PART III PERSPECTIVES ON NUBIA 45. Cattle Cultures in Ancient Nubia 909 Jérôme Dubosson 46. Savanna on the Nile: Long-term Agricultural Diversification and Intensification in Nubia 927 Dorian Q. Fuller and Leilani Lucas 47. Exploitation of Geological Resources: Ancient Mines and Quarries in Nubia 955 James A. Harrell and Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed contents ix 48. Iron Production at Meroe 975 Jane Humphris 49. Trade in Ancient Nubia: Routes, Goods, and Structures 995 Mahmoud Suliman Bashir and Geoff Emberling 50. Women in Ancient Kush 1015 Angelika Lohwasser and Jacke Phillips 51. Perspectives on the Body in Ancient Nubia 1033 Rachael J. Dann 52. Bioarchaeology of Nubia 1051 Michele R. Buzon 53. Landscape Archaeologies in Nubia and the Middle Nile 1071 David N. Edwards 54. Nubian Rock Art 1091 Henryk Paner 55. Archaeological Practice in the 21st Century: Reflecting on Archaeologist-Community Relationships in Sudan’s Nile Valley 1127 Jane Humphris, Rebecca Bradshaw, and Geoff Emberling Index 1149
The list of books you might like
