Kadruka: A Tale of Two Taphonomies

DOI : 10.34847/nkl.dce0p66b Publique
Créée le 13/10/2021

Assessing the Contribution of Taphonomic Analysis to our Understanding of Neolithic Sudanese Burial Sites using both the Standard Anglophone and Francophone Definitions

nakala:title en Kadruka: A Tale of Two Taphonomies
dcterms:abstract The Kadruka concession represents an area of study grouping together a large number of funerary (as well as habitat) sites located in Upper Nubia in modern day Sudan. Five of these sites (KDK1, KDK2, KDK18, KDK21 and KDK23) served as the basis for a doctoral thesis that provided a new perspective on the identity and practices of these populations. These results are part of a larger and ongoing project, which aims to expand our understanding of the Kadruka area, how the different sites relate to one another and to the surrounding region more broadly. Initially excavated and studied by J. Reinold and C. Simon from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the vast documentation made available by this work served as an important means to perform a taphonomic analysis on this collection of burials a posteriori. Traditionally, the term taphonomy possesses two different meanings within its use in archaeology. On the one hand there is the widely used English language definition and on the other there is its meaning and scope in French. Both uses contribute significantly to an improved understanding of the diversity of methods of disposal of the dead, of deposition practices for grave-goods and of the way in which a cemetery may have functioned within a specific environment.
dcterms:description Assessing the Contribution of Taphonomic Analysis to our Understanding of Neolithic Sudanese Burial Sites using both the Standard Anglophone and Francophone Definitions
dcterms:spatial dcterms:ISO3166 SD
dcterms:subject en Neolithic
en funerary archaeology
en bioarchaeology
en taphonomy
en Kadruka
en Nubia
en Sudan
en Sudan--Antiquities
en Sudan--Civilization
dcterms:temporal name:Neolithic;
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