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ARCL0056: Introduction to the Archaeology of Sudan INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ARCL0056: Introduction to the Archaeology of Sudan Module handbook 2018–2019 Years 2 and 3 option, 15 credits, Term I, Friday 10.00-12.00 Moodle password: ARCL0056 (tbc) Turnitin ID: 3884512 Turnitin password: IoA1819 Deadlines for coursework for this module: 15/11/2018, 12/12/2018 Target dates for return of marked coursework to students: 30/11/2018, 09/01/2019 Co-ordinators: Dorian Q Fuller and Claudia Näser [email protected] and [email protected] UCL Institute of Archaeology, Rooms 311 and 113 Tel: 020 7679 4771 and 020 7679 1533 (from within UCL: 24771 and 21533) Please see the last page of this handbook for important information about submission and marking procedures, or links to the relevant webpages. 1 OVERVIEW Short description The aim of this module is to acquaint students with the Middle Nile valley, i.e. present-day Sudan, as a region of archaeological enquiry, which may be particularly pertinent to students with interests in African archaeology, Egyptology and, more generally, fieldwork in this area. The module offers a broad sweep of the archaeology of the Middle Nile valley from the Palaeolithic to the post-Medieval Islamic period. Lectures will focus on issues surrounding major cultural trans- itions and current scholarly debates regarding the nature of local societies during the various periods discussed, including the beginnings of food production and the potential role of climatic change, the relationships between Middle Nile polities and Egypt through the various periods, and the rise and trajectory of state-level societies – Kerma, Napata, Meroe and Medieval Nubia. Issues surrounding the social, economic and political organisation of Middle Nile socities from prehistory to post- Medieval times and their appraisal in the context of World Archaeology will also be discussed. Week-by-week summary 1 Setting the scene: geographical background, palaeoecology, history of 05.10.2018 research (DQF, CN) 2 The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: The emergence of sedentism and pottery (DQF) 12.10.2018 3 The Neolithic and Chalcolithic: The way to food production, and the 19.10.2018 divergence of the Middle Nile valley and Egypt (CN) 4 The Bronze Age Kerma culture: Towards social complexity (DQF) 26.10.2018 5 Egypt in Nubia: A casestudy in early colonialism (CN) 02.11.2018 Reading week 6 C-Group and Pan-Grave culture: Variability in Bronze Age ways of life (CN) 16.11.2018 7 The Napatan and Meroitic period I (DQF) 23.11.2018 8 The Meroitic period II (DQF) 30.11.2018 9 The post-Meroitic period and the Medieval period I (CN) 07.12.2018 10 Medieval period II and the Islamic period (CN) 14.12.2018 Deadlines for coursework for this module: 15/11/2018, 12/12/2018 Basic reading General reference works for the module as a whole, with useful bibliographies. Refer to this list for background research for essays. All titles are in the Institute of Archaeology Library. Note also the online resources listed below in chapter 4 of this handbook. Essential reading Edwards, D.N. 2004. The Nubian Past. London and New York: Routledge. EGYPTOLOGY E 120 EDW and IOA ISSUE DESK 1 Adams, W.Y. 1977. Nubia: Corridor to Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press. EGYPTOLOGY B 60 ADA and available online through SFX@UCL; Arabic translation by Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud .Al‐Fatima Brothers .النوبة رواق إفريقيا .2004 Other introductions, overviews and major syntheses Cabon, O. and V. Francigny 2017. Historie et civilisations du Soudan: De la préhistoire à nos jours. Paris: Éditions Soleb. Davies, W.V. (ed.) 1991. Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam. London: British Museum Press. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS B 60 DAV Kendall, T. 2007. Egypt and Nubia. In: Wilkinson, T. (ed.). The Egyptian World. London, New York: Routledge, 401–416. EGYPTOLOGY A 5 WIL and available online through SFX@UCL O’Connor, D. 1993. Ancient Nubia: Egypt’s Rival in Africa. Philadelphia, PA: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS B 60 OCO Smith, S.T. 1998. Nubia and Egypt: Interaction, acculturation, and secondary state formation from the Third to First Millennium B.C. In: Cusick, J.G. (ed.). Studies in Culture Contact. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper 25. Carbondale, Ill.: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, 256–287. INST ARCH BD CUS Török, L. 1997. The Kingdom of Kush. Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Handbuch der Orientalistik. 1. Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 31. Leiden: Brill. EGYPTOLOGY B 60 TOR Trigger, B. 1965. History and Settlement in Lower Nubia. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 69. New Haven, CT: Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University. EGYPTOLOGY B 60 TRI Welsby, Derek A. 1996. The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires. London: British Museum Press EGYPTOLOGY B 60 WEL Encyclopedias and collections of source material Eide, T., T. Hägg, R.H. Pierce and L. Török 1994–2000. Fontes Historiae Nubiorum. Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth Century AD. 4 vols. Bergen: Department of Greek, Latin and Egyptology. EGYPTOLOGY B 60 FON Porter, R. and R.L.B. Moss 1951. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume 7: Nubia, the Deerts, and Outside Egypt. Oxford: Clarendon. EGYPTOLOGY A 1 POR and E-BOOK. Nicknamed the "Porter/Moss" Vantini, G. 1975. Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia. Heidelberg, Warsaw: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Polish Academy of Sciences. STORE 02-00357; 392 B 60 VAN Information on individual topics may also be found in Egyptological resources such as: Bard, K.A. (ed.) 1999. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge. EGYPTO- LOGY A 2 BAR, ISSUE DESK IOA BAR 17 Helck, W. and E. Otto (eds) 1975–1986. Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 LEX. Individual entries in German, English and French Redford, D.B. (ed.) 2001. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 OXF and available online through SFX@UCL UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee 2 Multiple voices: Mind that the resources quoted here may not be available at UCL libraries Faraji, S. 2012. Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered: The Triumph of the Last Pharaoh. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. Harkless, N.D. 2006. Nubian Pharaohs and Meroitic Kings. The Kingdom of Kush. Bloomington: AuthorHouse. Monges, M.M. 1997. Kush, the Jewel of Nubia: Reconnecting the Root System of African Civilization. Trenton: Africa World Press. Schmidt, P.R. (ed.) 2009. Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 1–20. INST ARCH DC 100 SCH Schmidt, P.R. and R.J. McIntosh (eds) 1996. Plundering Africa's Past. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press and James Currey. INST ARCH DC 100 SCH; ANTHROPOLOGY Q 95 SCH Source collections of early fieldwork Bruce, J. 1790. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. Available online through SFX@UCL; abridged edition of 1964 in Edinburgh: University Press. ANTHROPOLOGY STORE Budge, E.A.W. 1907. The Egyptian Sudan: Its History and its Monuments. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. EGYPTOLOGY B 60 BUD; STORE 07-0601 Cailliaud, F. 1826. Voyage à Méroé, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de Fazoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, à Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822. 4 vols. Paris: Imprimerie royale. REF COLLECTION K EGYPTOLOGY RARE A 30 CAI Emery, W.B. and L.P. Kirwan 1935. The Excavations and Survey between Wadi es-Sebua and Adindan 1929–1931. Mission archéologique de Nubie 1929–1934. Cairo: Government Press. STORE FOLIOS 7672 Firth, C.M. 1912. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1908–1909. Cairo: Government Press. STORES ISSUE DESK STORE FOLIOS 8788; STORE FOLIOS 7554 Firth, C.M. 1915. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1909–1910. Cairo: Government Press. STORE FOLIOS 7555 Firth, C.M. 1927. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1910–1911. Cairo: Government Press. STORE FOLIOS 7556 Lepsius, K.R. 1849–1859. Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Part V, vol. X: Aethiopische Denkmaeler. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS R 392 LARGE FOLIOS 165 Shinnie, M. (ed.) 1958. Linant de Bellefonds, L.M.A., Journal d’un voyage à Méroé dans les années 1821 et 1822. Sudan Antiquities Service Occasional Papers 4. Khartoum: Sudan Antiquities Service. EGYPTOLOGY A 30 LIN Maspero, G. 1911. Documents sur l'etat des monuments. Les temples immergés de la Nubie. Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 14 MAS; STORE 392 QUARTOS E 14 MAS; STORE FOLIOS 3144 Maspero, G. 1911. Rapports relatifs à la consolidation des temples. Les temples immergés de la Nubie. Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 14 MAS Monneret de Villard, U. 1935. La Nubia Medioevale. Mission archéologique de Nubie 1929–1934. Cairo: Government Press. STORE FOLIOS 8040–8043 3 Reisner, G.A. 1910. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1907–1908: Archaeological Report. Cairo: National Printing Department. STORE FOLIOS 7550–7553 Weigall, A.E.P.B. 1907. A Report on the Antiquities of Lower Nubia (The First Cataract to the Sudan Frontier) and their Condition in 1906–7. Oxford: Oxford University Press. STORE FOLIOS E 10 WEI Specialised journals Archéologie du Nil moyen Beiträge zur Sudanforschung Kush Sudan and Nubia Der antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. Exhibition catalogues Bonnet, C. and D. Valbelle (eds) 2005. The Nubian Pharaohs. Black Kings of the Nile. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 120 BON Welsby, D.A.
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