El-Detti

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El Detti is a village in the Northern Province of Sudan, on the right bank of the Nile between the Third and Fourth Cataracts. An Early Makurian cemetery is located there.[1]

History of research

In 1919, American archaeologist

Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw (PCMA UW)
. The Polish–Sudanese project is directed by Mahmoud el-Tayeb from the PCMA UW. The first season consisted of a survey and documentation work; regular excavations began in 2015.

Archaeological discoveries

Several dozen tumuli graves are dispersed over an area measuring 500 by 400 m. All were robbed in the past.[2] The main aim of the research is to analyze their construction and compare it to the tombs from the Az-Zuma site, located at a distance of about 7 km.[1] Examined the mortuary customs helped identify the funeral practices of Early Makurian society and track the spread of the Early Makurian society over time.[2] Fragments of ceramic vessels found by the walls located south-east of the cemetery indicate that it may have been a part of a Christian site (as yet unidentified). This suggests that the settlement continued to exist in the Christian period.[1] Similar to the Az-Zuma site, three types of tumuli were distinguished.[3] The mission's work includes anthropological and archaeozoological[4] research as well as studies on pottery and metal objects.[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d "El-Detti". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  2. ^ a b el-Tayeb, Mahmoud; Czyżewska-Zalewska, Ewa; Kowarska, Zofia; Lenarczyk, Szymon (2016). "Early Makuria Research Project: Interim report on the excavation at el-Detti in 2014 and 2015 with Appendix: Metal objects from the el-Detti cemetery". Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. 25.
  3. S2CID 240373368
    . Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  4. ^ Iwaszczuk, Urszula (2017). "Animals from the tumuli in el-Detti in Sudan: from bone remains to studying ritual". pam-journal.pl. Retrieved 2020-06-29.