Reinterpreting chronology and society at the mortuary complex of Jebel Moya (Sudan):
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Autor: Brass, Michael Jonathan
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Contents
Foreword...........................................................................................................................................................xi
Chapter 1: Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Aims and methods.................................................................................................................................................1
1.2 The prehistoric geographic context of Jebel Moya...............................................................................................1
1.3 Wellcome s excavations and subsequent research................................................................................................3
1.4 Records concerning the Wellcome excavations at Jebel Moya.............................................................................7
1.5 Structure of this research......................................................................................................................................9
Chapter 2: The evolution of complexity theory and mortuary studies...............................................................10
2.1 Forms and processes of political and social organisation....................................................................................10
2.2 Expressions of social complexity in the Saharan and Sahelian Belts...................................................................12
2.2.1 History of the cultural complexity debate in North Africa.............................................................................12
2.2.2 Conceptualising the construction of social complexity in the Sudan during the Neolithic and post-Neo-
lithic...................................................................................................................................................................15
2.3 Modelling social organisation in mortuary assemblages.....................................................................................16
2.3.1 Early mortuary practice studies.....................................................................................................................17
2.3.2 Moving beyond the Saxe-Binford modelling..................................................................................................18
2.4 Approaches to social structure in the Jebel Moya mortuary complex................................................................24
Chapter 3: Ceramic assemblages and a revised chronology for Jebel Moya ......................................................28
3.1 Previous studies of the Jebel Moya pottery........................................................................................................28
3.1.1 Frank Addison................................................................................................................................................28
3.1.2 J. Desmond Clark, Haaland, Caneva, Gerharz and Manzo..............................................................................32
3.1.3 Discussion.........................................................................................................................................................35
3.2. Analytical methods of pottery studies................................................................................................................36
3.2.1 History of approaches to pottery studies.......................................................................................................36
3.2.2 Typological-based approaches in the Sudan..................................................................................................38
3.2.3 Attribute-based approaches...........................................................................................................................39
3.2.4 Weighing up analytical options......................................................................................................................40
3.3 Analysing the British Museum s pottery collection.............................................................................................41
3.3.1 Describing the newly classified assemblages.................................................................................................41
3.3.2 Description of the sherds per tray..................................................................................................................42
3.3.3 Single and co-occurrence of sherd attributes................................................................................................47
3.3.3.1 Single attribute occurrences.....................................................................................................................47
3.3.3.2 Attribute co-occurrences..........................................................................................................................52
3.3.4 Description of the three assemblages as determined by attribute analysis of the strata..............................57
3.3.4.1 Assemblage 1 (Figure 3.11).......................................................................................................................57
3.3.4.2 Assemblage 2 (Figure 3.12).......................................................................................................................58
3.3.4.3 Assemblage 3 (Figure 3.13).......................................................................................................................59
3.3.4.4 Pottery from burials..................................................................................................................................59
3.4 The absolute dating of Jebel Moya......................................................................................................................61
3.5 Implications of the new pottery and radiometric analyses.................................................................................64
3.5.1 Claimed non-local artefacts in the burial assemblages..................................................................................65
3.5.2 Claimed non-local artefacts in non-burial contexts........................................................................................65
3.5.3 Cardinal directionality and burial posture of burials-without-goods versus burials-with-goods...................67
3.6 Resituating Jebel Moya in a Classic-Late Meroitic context in the southern Gezira.............................................67
Chapter 4: Implications of occupational traces and spatial use of the site over time.........................................71
4.1 Re-examination of claimed habitation remains at Jebel Moya...........................................................................71
4.1.1 Floors, pavements and post-holes.................................................................................................................71
4.1.2 Fireplaces and ovens......................................................................................................................................76
4.1.3 Cultivation......................................................................................................................................................77
4.1.4 Discussion of occupational traces..................................................................................................................78
4.2 Intra-site mortuary data......................................................................................................................................79
4.2.1 Distribution of the burials..............................................................................................................................79
4.2.2 Origins of the cemetery layout.......................................................................................................................84
4.2.2.1 Comparative nature of the burial assemblages........................................................................................84
4.3 Discussion: Site spatial use over time..................................................................................................................86
Chapter 5: The bioanthropology of Jebel Moya.................................................................................................88
5.1 The original 1955 analysis: Mukherjee, Rao and Trevor......................................................................................88
5.2 Rachel Mutton MacDonald: Jebel Moya as a pastoral population.......................................................................99
5.3 Irish and Konigsberg: Population affinity using dental traits...............................................................................99
5.4 The Duckworth Laboratory collection revisited...................................................................................................99
5.5 Discussion: The bioanthropological make-up of Jebel Moya..............................................................................99
Chapter 6: Social patterning in the Jebel Moya mortuary complex..................................................................100
6.1 Introducing Inverse Distance Value...................................................................................................................1
6.2 Differential patterns in biological age groups: Inverse Distance Value and burial orientations........................103
6.2.1 Infants, juveniles, young adults and adults..................................................................................................103
6.2.1.1 Infants.....................................................................................................................................................105
6.2.1.2 Juveniles..................................................................................................................................................106
6.2.1.3 Young adults............................................................................................................................................107
6.2.1.4 Adults......................................................................................................................................................107
6.3 Spatial methods for examining the Jebel Moya burial assemblage inventory..................................................109
6.3.1 Correspondence Analysis.............................................................................................................................117
6.3.2 Pair Correlation Function.............................................................................................................................119
6.3.3 Multi-dimensional scaling...........................................................................................................................125
6.4 Burial treatment..........................................................................................129
6.5 Discussion. The social implications of the mortuary patterns...........................................................................131
Chapter 7: Situating Jebel Moya s cemetery within a wider Sudanese context................................................134
7.1 The socio-political nature of the Meroitic state................................................................................................136
7.2. Mortuary patterns in Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Nubia..................................................................................139
7.2.1 Lower Nubia.................................................................................................................................................139
7.2.1.1 Ballana and Qustul..................................................................................................................................140
7.2.2 Upper Nubia.................................................................................................................................................142
7.2.3 Shendi Reach: The heart of the Meroitic state.............................................................................................145
7.2.4 Gezira Plain...................................................................................................................................................147
7.2.4.1 Abu Geili..................................................................................................................................................148
7.2.4.2 Sennar.....................................................................................................................................................148
7.2.4.3 Other cemeteries and settlements near Jebel Moya..............................................................................149
7.2.5 Western Butana.............................................................................................................................................151
7.3 Discussion: The importance of Jebel Moya.......................................................................................................152
Chapter 8: Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................154
8.1 Research questions on burial and society at Jebel Moya..................................................................................154
8.2 Positioning Jebel Moya as a pastoralist occupational site in the southern frontier zone of the Meroitic state .......156
8.3 Final thoughts....................................................................................................................................................157
Bibliography...................................................................................................................................................159
Appendix I: Burial distribution map of Jebel Moya..........................................................................................175
Data available at http://bit.ly/2axUAGY..................................................................................................................175
Appendix It: New Register of Graves for Jebel Moya.......................................................................................176
Data available at http://bit.ly/2axUAGY..................................................................................................................176
Appendix III: British Museum sherd trays.......................................................................................................177
Data available at http://bit.ly/2axUAGY..................................................................................................................177
Appendix IV: Burials with illustrated pottery sherds........................................................................................178
Appendix V: Foreign objects from Jebel Moya at the Griffiths Institute...........................................................191
Data available at http://bit.ly/2axUAGY..................................................................................................................191
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