What forced the prehistoric cattle-keepers to emigrate from the Red Sea Mountains?

• Autorzy: Bobrowski P. , Jórdeczka M , Kobusiewicz M. , Chłodnicki M , Kusiak J.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Today's desert area of Red Sea Hills is now inhabited by a Beja-Bisharin tribe, the camel breeders. In prehistoric times, this area was inhabited or penetrated by pastoral communities engaged in cattle breeding. Their occupation is primarily marked by thousands of engravings with representations of long-horned cattle, which were discovered in a rock art gallery in Bir Nurayet, one of the largest rock art galleries in Africa and the whole world. We still do not know when the shepherds and their herds abandoned the area. This issue can be addressed by geoarchaeology and investigation of sediments discovered in Wadi Diib, i.e. silts. As we believe, they record climate and environmental changes taking place in recent millennia, which probably to a large extent determined the sociocultural processes in the area.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

cattle-keepers; Red Sea Hills; Sudan; chronology of rock art

• Wydawca: Institute of Geological Science Polish Academy of Science
• Czasopismo: Studia Quaternaria
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: Vol. 30, Nr 2
• Strony: 135--142
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 40 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Bobrowski P.

• Group for Research on Prehistory and Early Civilization of Africa, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Rubież 46, 61-612 Poznań, Poland

autor

Jórdeczka M

• Group for Research on Prehistory and Early Civilization of Africa, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Rubież 46, 61-612 Poznań, Poland

autor

Kobusiewicz M.

• Group for Research on Prehistory and Early Civilization of Africa, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Rubież 46, 61-612 Poznań, Poland

autor

Chłodnicki M

• Poznań Archaeological Museum, Department of General Archaeology, Unit of Archaeology of Sudan, Wodna 27, 61-781 Poznań

autor

Kusiak J.

• Department of Geoecology and Paleogeography, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, al. Kraśnicka 2cd, 20-718 Lublin, Poland

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