Jebel Moya (Sudan): new dates from a mortuary complex at the southern Meroitic frontier

Brass, Michael; Schwenniger, Jean-Luc

doi:10.1080/0067270x.2013.843258

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“…More recently, Brass (2016) utilised Wellcome's archives in the United Kingdom, which provided a statistically rigorous definition of the pottery assemblages curated at the British Museum, as well as the first absolute dates for the second and third assemblages (Table 2) (Brass and Schwenniger 2013): Assemblage 1 (Late Mesolithic, late sixth millennium BC based on ceramic parallels (Caneva 1991; Salvatori, 2012), Assemblage 2 ( c . 1700–700 BC) and Assemblage 3 ( c .…”

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“…We also report radiometric dating and isotopic results on some of these remains. Additionally, earlier OSL dates (Brass and Schwenniger 2013) have been slightly revised based on new soil sampling to recalculate the dose rate received by the quartz mineral grains in pottery. Combined, these new radiometric dates provide improved chronological sequences and understanding of temporal context.…”

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New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel

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Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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This paper presents new excavation data and new radiometric dates for Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data suggest revisions to previous chronological understandings of the site. New excavations, initiated in 2017, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previously recognised. Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses provide evidence for domesticated taxa. Archaeobotanical evidence is dominated by domesticated sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), radiocarbon dated to c. 2550-2210 BC. Faunal remains include cattle and goat/sheep. A late third-millennium BC date on the human skeleton excavated in the 2017 season also shows that mortuary activity began early in the site's history, contemporary with domesticated faunal and botanical remains. These initial results indicate the long-term association of the site with pastoralism and agriculture and with environmental change. Jebel Moya's continued potential to serve as a chronological and cultural reference point for future studies in south-central Sudan and the eastern Sahel is reinforced.

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New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel

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“…Overall, 3,135 human burials in 2,791 designated graves were both recorded and excavated, making the site the largest pastoral mortuary complex in sub-Saharan Africa, with the vast majority of the burials dating to the site’s final phase from the first century BC until the mid-first millennium AD (Brass and Schwenniger 2013). The excavated materials and expedition records were shipped to the UK.…”

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“…Placing Jebel Moya in a secure temporal context, through attribute analysis and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of the pottery assemblages curated at the British Museum, was a necessary step to allow for informed social analysis of change over time (Table 1) (Brass and Schwenniger 2013). In this paper, the applicability of the wider body of mortuary theory to Jebel Moya is discussed, and preliminary results are outlined from spatial and statistical analyses revealing the existence of seemingly unique spatial neighbourhoods in the northeastern sector of the cemetery.…”

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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya

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2014

Afr Archaeol Rev

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The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known Meroitic trading station (Sennar) in the southern Gezira Plain, Sudan. It is the first time that the known localities in the southern Gezira and southern Meroitic cemeteries have been compared, in an attempt to elucidate the different social organisation reflected in mortuary assemblages between the core and the periphery of the Meroitic State. New questions are posed for (1) the applicability of mortuary theory to pastoral cemeteries, and (2) the nature of zones of interaction on the frontier of the Meroitic State, through the application of new statistical and spatial analyses of the mortuary assemblages and the site’s reinterpretation as a pastoral, instead of an agro-pastoral, mortuary complex.

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“…An increasing number of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) studies on heated materials has been presented in the last decade (Bailiff ; Bailiff et al . , ; Brass and Schwenniger ; Hood and Schwenninger ). Hanebuth et al .…”

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Roman traces in Germania magna: New thermoluminescence and pIRIR₂₉₀ data from a lime kiln at Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

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The applicability of a post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence (pIRIR 290 ) protocol and two different thermoluminescence (TL) protocols-a single aliquot regeneration (SAR) and a multiple aliquot additive dose (MAAD)-was tested on six polymineral fine-grain (4-11 μm) samples extracted from the wall remains of a Roman lime kiln and a Roman roof tile. These remains had been excavated close to Bergisch Gladbach, which was at that time part of Germania magna. For the pIRIR 290 measurements, no dependence of D e on first-stimulation temperature was detectable, and the standard first stimulation temperature at 50°C was adopted. Fading tests and dose-recovery tests were made for all samples. Background subtracted glow curves were recorded up to 480°C for TL after a preheat of 220°C for 120 s. A-values were determined for all TL and pIRIR measurements. The results for all three protocols were fairly consistent, and TL and pIRIR 290 protocols are shown to be suitable to estimate reliable equivalent doses for the fired kiln walls. The resulting ages are in agreement with the expected time range-Roman Iron Age-and with independent age control provided by radiocarbon ages of animal bones and charcoal from the firing chamber. Highlights: A Roman lime kiln and surrounding sediments were successfully dated using both thermoluminescence (TL) and post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence (pIRIR).

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Jebel Moya (Sudan): new dates from a mortuary complex at the southern Meroitic frontier

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New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel

New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel

The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya

Roman traces in Germania magna: New thermoluminescence and pIRIR₂₉₀ data from a lime kiln at Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

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Jebel Moya (Sudan): new dates from a mortuary complex at the southern Meroitic frontier

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New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel

New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel

The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya

Roman traces in Germania magna: New thermoluminescence and pIRIR290 data from a lime kiln at Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

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