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The Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological sites on the Atbara and Blue Nile in Eastern Sudan
Subtitle:Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 34 (1987)
Creator:Chmielewski, Waldemar (1924–2004)
Contributor: Publisher:Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej
Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Description: Type of object: Subject and Keywords:paleolit -- Sudan ; stanowiska paleolitu -- Sudan ; przedmioty krzemienne paleolitu ; stratygrafia stanowisk
Abstract:This paper describes 11 archaeological sites discovered in the clifs of Atbara river valley near Khashm el Girba and site in the clif of Blue Nile river valley in Abu Hugar. The author discusses their stratigraphy and lithic assemblages. The Acheulian assemblages in Atbara river valley are most numerous, some contain artifacts in several superimposed layers. The oldest layer on the 102 site does not contain Acheulian handaxes but Abbevilian one and many chopper and chopping tools and proto cleavers. Among the younger Acheulian assemblages the Levalloisian technik is well represented. On one site the Stillbay assemblage has been discovered Similar artifacts were found in Abu Hugar. On the surface of the middle terrace of the Atbara river the early Holocene assemblages were found with Eburonian typological elements as well as one assemblage containing microlits similar to those known from Nile valley in Wadi Haifa region and from Sahara. Discussing the stratigraphy of the deposits of boths rivers author distinguished 8 sedimentary units (series). He thinks that they were formed as the huge river's cone deposits of Atbara and Blue Nile during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene and finished by one late Pleistocene erosional episode and Holocene sequence of terraces
Relation: Volume: Start page: End page: Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Format: Resource Identifier: Source:IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link
Language: Rights:Prawa zastrzeżone - dostęp ograniczony
Terms of use: Digitizing institution:Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Original in:Biblioteka Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN
Projects co-financed by:Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego ; Działalność upowszechniająca naukę (DUN)
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