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- Title
The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya.
- Authors
Brass, Michael
- Abstract
The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known Meroitic trading station (Sennar) in the southern Gezira Plain, Sudan. It is the first time that the known localities in the southern Gezira and southern Meroitic cemeteries have been compared, in an attempt to elucidate the different social organisation reflected in mortuary assemblages between the core and the periphery of the Meroitic State. New questions are posed for (1) the applicability of mortuary theory to pastoral cemeteries, and (2) the nature of zones of interaction on the frontier of the Meroitic State, through the application of new statistical and spatial analyses of the mortuary assemblages and the site's reinterpretation as a pastoral, instead of an agro-pastoral, mortuary complex.
- Subjects
SUDAN; MEROE (Extinct city); JABAL Mayyah Site (Sudan); CEMETERIES; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; PASTORAL societies; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
African Archaeological Review, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 3, p425
- ISSN
0263-0338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10437-014-9164-5