文档介绍：THE NUBIAN PAST
This volume presents a synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan, a region
which for millennia has been where the Eurasian and sub-Saharan worlds met, and that
has produced the earliest states and some of the most spectacular archaeology in sub-
Saharan Africa. The first major work on this area for over 30 years, the book provides a
thoroughly up-to-date review, drawing on the results of the latest research, as well as
developing new interpretative frameworks.
The book breaks new ground in a number of ways, especially in moving beyond
often Egyptocentric and more traditional culture-histories of ‘Nubia’, isolated from
other areas of Africanist research. One particular concern has been to re-locate the early
civilizations of the region and their archaeology within their Sudanic African context.
The geographical range of the book extends far beyond the Nubian north to include
wide areas of the Middle Nile Basin and what e to be the modern Sudan.
Through the period-based chapters, the distinctiveness, or otherwise, of the region’s
long-term history can be traced both in relation to the Sudanic world and the Egyptian
Lower Nile. New ground is also broken in exploring the potential for a more broadly
framed and inclusive ‘historical archaeology’, dealing with the Sudan’s more recent
past.
David N. Edwards is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Archaeology and
Ancient History, University of Leicester. With extensive research experience in Sudan
and Nubia since 1985, he has worked widely in Britain as well as Libya, Egypt and
Jordan as a field archaeologist.
THE NUBIAN PAST
An archaeology of the Sudan
David N. Edwards
First published 2004
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.