Raně postmerojský pohřeb lučištníka z pohoří Sabaloka // Early post-Meroitic burial of an archer from Jebel Sabaloka

Abstract

In 2011, the expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague) excavated one of three tumuli on one of the settlement terraces at the late prehistoric site of Fox Hill (SBK.W-21) at Jebel Sabaloka and the Sixth Nile Cataract in central Sudan. The excavation brought to light a standard burial of an archer dated to the early post-Meroitic period with important series of archaeobotanical (pollen, macro-remains, charcoal) and palaeomalacological (land snails) data. The results of the multi-disci - plinary investigation of the tumulus discuss ed in this paper illustrate the marked, but so far only little exploited potential of these monuments, omnipresent in the archaeological land - scapes of central Sudan, for extending our knowledge of not only the burial rites, but also of the supra-regional distribution of artefacts, the character of the environment and, last but not least, of subsistence strategies in this particular period.

Keywords

• Sudan
• Sabaloka
• Sixth Nile Cataract
• burial rite
• archaeobotany
• subsistence strategy
• prestigious objects
• distribution
• exchange
• Súdán
• 6. nilský katarakt
• pohřební ritus
• archeobotanika
• subsistenční strategie
• prestižní předměty
• distribuce
• směna