Archaeology by the Fourth Nile Cataract: Survey and Excavations on the left bank of the river and on the islands between Amri and Kirbekan, Volume I
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Archaeology by the Fourth Nile Cataract: Survey and Excavations on the left bank of the river and on the islands between Amri and Kirbekan, Volume I

Landscape, toponyms and oral history and the people, their settlements, architecture and land use before the Merowe Dam

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Archaeology by the Fourth Nile Cataract: Survey and Excavations on the left bank of the river and on the islands between Amri and Kirbekan, Volume I

Landscape, toponyms and oral history and the people, their settlements, architecture and land use before the Merowe Dam

About this book

This volume is the first of several devoted to publishing the results of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society's surveys and excavations in the region of the Fourth Cataract. This, a component of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project, was conducted along a 40km stretch of the river on the left bank and on the islands.

Following an introduction to the project, chapters focus on the palaeoenvironment in the concession area between Amri and Kirbekan, on the flora and toponyms, and on the folklore, agricultural practices, architecture and the life styles of the Manasir and Shaqiya inhabitants immediately before the inundation of the region by the Merowe Dam.

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Table of contents

  1. Genesis of the project
  2. 1. Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project
  3. The SARS Amri to Kirbekan Survey
  4. 1999-2007
  5. 2. The landscape of the Fourth Nile Cataract
  6. and its geomorphologic evolution
  7. 3. Merowe Dam Project. Land use and Vegetation in the Flooding Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan
  8. Appendix A: Interview guidelines on current land use
  9. at the Fourth Cataract
  10. Appendix B: Culture plant species at the Fourth Cataract
  11. Appendix C: Wild-growing Vegetation
  12. at the Fourth Cataract
  13. Appendix D: Wild-growing vegetation at
  14. the Fourth Cataract arranged by habitat
  15. Appendix E: Wild-growing vegetation at the Fourth Cataract ordered by plant societies
  16. 4. The Oral History of the Manāṣīr
  17. 5. Toponymy in the Fourth Cataract
  18. 6. Dar el-Arab Fourth Cataract: 2004 Ethnographic Studies
  19. 7. Modern Vernacular Architecture and Settlements
  20. Organization at the Fourth Nile Cataract between
  21. Dar el-Arab and Dar el-Waraaq
  22. 8. Architecture and life in villages of the
  23. Fourth Nile Cataract in the region of al Ṭirēf
  24. 9. Bibliography for Volume I
  25. 3. Merowe Dam Project. Land use and Vegetation in the Flooding Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan
  26. Table 3.1. impact of the Aswan HIgh dam and merowe dam.
  27. Table 3.2. Climate Data of Sudan North to South (Data from different time periods)
  28. (Westermann 1973, author’s compilation).
  29. Table 3.3. Typical crop rotation
  30. at the Fourth Cataract.
  31. Table 4.1. The first major group.
  32. Table 4.2. The Second major group.
  33. Table 4.3. The third major group.
  34. 1. Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project
  35. 1. Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project
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  125. Plate 5.1. View along the ridge from Jabal Ḥarrān looking north west.
  126. Plate 5.2. The boulder on which one of the archangels is carved with the flat slab below it: the place of the 7th naming day ceremonies.
  127. Figure 5.1. Names of the main islands betwen Dirbi and Kirbekan
  128. Figure 5.2. Names of the main islands and rapids in the area around et-Tereif
  129. Plate 5.3. Jabal Mūsa (photo: D. A. Welsby).
  130. Plate 5.4. The Wadi al Firsīb from the mouth of Wadi ab’ Sidēra.
  131. Figure 5.3. Village names and the names of areas/localities betweem the islands of Kirbekan and and Dirbi.
  132. Figure 5.4. Village names and the names of areas/localities betweem the islands of Birti and Dirbi.
  133. Figure 5.5. Village names and the names of areas/localities betweem the islands of Umm Gebir and Birti.
  134. Figure 5.6. Jabal, khor and wādi names between the islands
  135. of Kirbekan and and Dirbi.
  136. Figure 5.7. Jabal, khor and wādi names
  137. between the islands of Dirbi and Berti.
  138. Figure 5.8. Jabal, khor and wādi names between the islands of Birti and Umm Gebir.
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