Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is
challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available wild plants from …

The reliable determination of bioapatite crystallinity is of great practical interest, as a proxy to
the physico-chemical and microstructural properties, and ultimately, to the integrity of bone …

In this study the diagenetic pathways of archaeological human bones are investigated
through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in attenuated total reflection mode (ATR …

Objectives A contribution to the knowledge of the economy and the environmental
surroundings of the populations living along the Nile valley in three different periods …

A largely accepted paradigm in African recent prehistory considers pastoralism to be the
main subsistence source of food-producing communities along the Sudanese Nile valley …

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 …

Calcic soil horizons are common in arid and semi-arid lands and represent the result of the
progressive accumulation of calcium carbonate in the soil profile over time. This process …

Burial assemblages inform us about the biology of past societies, social relations, and ritual
and symbolic behavior. However, they also allow us to examine the circumstances of death …

The excavation at al-Khiday's Mesolithic and Neolithic sites, located along the western bank
of the White Nile, 25 km south of Khartoum, provides a complex view of hunter-gatherer …

The Nile valley has been the cradle to groups of foragers practicing hunting, gathering and
fishing, and technologically advanced pottery production. This social, economic, and cultural …