Levallois Tradition epigones in the Middle Nile Valley:survey in the Affad Basin

Abstract

The paper presents the results of an archaeological ground survey aimed to recordprehistoric settlement landscape in chosen parts of the Southern Dongola Reach (Tergis, Affadand El-Nafab districts). The project fills in the gaps in earlier research on the right bank of theNile. Numerous new sites were recorded, all reflecting a frequently occupied level of silts and sandsoriginating in the former river valley aggradations. Prospection of locations recorded in 2003 andlater demonstrated also the progressing destruction of archaeological sites on the fringes of modernsettlement and the new road from Karima to Nawa.

Keywords

• Sudan
• Southern Dongola Reach
• Late Pleistocene occupation
• survey