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Handbook of Ancient Nubia / Dietrich Raue.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- De Gruyter reference.
- De Gruyter Reference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nubia--History.
- Nubia.
- Nubia--Antiquities.
- Nubia--Civilization.
- Nubia--Social life and customs.
- Archaeology/Sudan.
- Archäologie im Sudan.
- Nubien.
- Local Subjects:
- Archaeology/Sudan.
- Archäologie im Sudan.
- Nubia.
- Nubien.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1,124 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Die moderne Geschichte Ägyptens und des Sudan hat mehrfach radikal in die nubische Lebenswelt eingegriffen und tut dies bis auf den heutigen Tag: Nach den großen Staudammbauten des 20. Jahrhunderts sind neue Damm-, Bau- und Schürfprojekte auch im 21. Jahrhundert der Anlass, unter enormem Zeitdruck großflächig nubisches Terrain zu erforschen. Hierdurch bedingt wurde auf allen Gebieten der Kulturgeschichte ein gewaltiger Wissenszuwachs erreicht. Ergänzt wird dies durch Entdeckungen in ägyptischen Fundplätzen, angrenzenden Wüstengebieten und benachbarten Großräumen. Die 42 Beiträge dieses Handbuches zielen auf die diachrone, regionale und großräumliche Perspektive. Beginnend mit den Befunden der Altsteinzeit wird der Weg hin zu dem Nebeneinander pastoraler Gesellschaften und größerer Kulturäume in der Flussaue dargestellt. Über die bronzezeitlichen Kulturen wird der Bogen zu den Königreichen von Napata und Meroe bis hin zu den christlichen Königreichen und der islamischen Frühneuzeit gespannt. Dieser Sammelband beabsichtigt, den interessierten Kulturwissenschaftler auf den jüngsten Stand der Forschung zu bringen und die wechselvolle Geschichte dieses Bindeglieds zwischen dem Mittelmeerraum und Afrika zu vermitteln.
- Numerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights. The contributions to this handbook illuminate our current understanding of the cultural history of this fascinating region, including its interconnections to the natural world.
- Contents:
- Handbook of Ancient Nubia
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Volume 1
- I. General
- Introduction
- Geologically Induced Raw Materials Stimulating the Development of Nubian Culture
- Topography and Regional Geography of Nubia: River, Cataract and Desert Landscapes
- A Short Story of Human-animal Relationships in Northern Sudan
- The Archaeobotany of Nubia
- The Role of Physical Anthropology in Nubian Archaeology
- Languages of Ancient Nubia
- II. From Palaelithicum to 2nd Millennium BC
- The Palaeolithic / Stone Age
- The Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sudan
- Eastern Saharan Prehistory during the 9th to 5th Millennium BC: The View from the 'Libyan Desert'
- The Holocene Prehistory of Upper Nubia until the Rise of the Kerma Kingdom
- Holocene Lithic Industries in Nubia
- The Later Prehistory of Nubia in its Interregional Setting
- Cultural Diversity of Nubia in the Later 3rd-Mid 2nd Millennium BC
- Eastern Sudan in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC
- Middle Kingdom Fortresses
- Pharaonic Rock Inscriptions in Nubia - The 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC
- The Religious Architecture of Kerma and Dokki Gel from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium BC
- Settlements of the Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom
- Pottery of the Middle and the New Kingdom from Lower and Upper Nubia
- Nubian Leatherwork
- Egyptian Temples in Nubia during the Middle and the New Kingdom
- New Kingdom Tombs in Lower and Upper Nubia
- Nubians in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC
- Volume 2
- III. 1st Millennium BC-2nd Millennium AD
- Settlements of the Early Kushite Period
- Napatan Necropoleis and Burial Customs
- The Sacred Architecture of the Napatan Period
- The Cache of Dukki Gel (Pa-nebes)
- Early Kushite Ceramics of the Earlier 1st Millennium BC in Lower and Upper Nubia
- Nubians in the 1st Millennium BC in Egypt
- Settlement in the Meroitic Kingdom
- Tomb Architecture and Burial Custom of the Elite during the Meroitic Phase in the Kingdom of Kush
- Meroitic Temples and their Decoration
- Art of the Meroitic Kingdom
- Ceramic Industries of Meroitic Sudan
- Defending the Indefensible. Nubian Fortifications in the Middle Ages
- The Sacral Architecture in the Kingdom of Makuria
- Post-Meroitic Nubia
- Islamic Archaeology in Nubia
- IV. Surveys and Fringes
- Archaeological Surveys at the Third, Fourth and Fifth Cataract Regions
- Living and Travelling in the Bayuda: The Wadi Abu Dom
- Recent Research Work at the Western and Southern Fringes of Nubia
- Rock Art
- Fending off the Desert Dwellers - The Gala Abu Ahmed Fortress and other fortified Places in the South Libyan Desert
- Indices
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Contains 2 volumes
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9783110420654
- 3110420651
- 9783110420388
- 3110420384
- OCLC:
- 1104726014
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