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The region of the First Cataract of the River Nile has been a crossroads of people and ideas since deep prehistory. By the end of the fourth millennium BCE, it became the southern border with Nubia of the ancient Egyptian state, the earliest-known territorial polity in history. An exceptionally rich corpus of rock art marks the regional landscape, both along the Nile and in the desert hinterland. The earliest depictions date back to the Late Pleistocene, while the youngest is of the modern age. The artistic productions dated to the state formation period (fourth/early third millennia BCE) are particularly abundant and of great interest. Most rock art links to the mainstream ancient Egyptian culture; however, hints are detectable for productions associated with other groups and agencies. The talk will provide an overview of the current scholarship, drawing on the ongoing investigation by the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project – AKAP. This joint venture between the University of Bologna and Yale University has been working in the region since 2005. With a supra-regional perspective, the talk will address some of the research questions AKAP aims to answer.
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The Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS
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The project is funded by the Norway Grants Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (https://eeagrants.org/) through the Polish National Science Centre (https://www.ncn.gov.pl/?language=en)-POLS Call (2020/37/K/HS3/04097).
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The Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal “Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies” invites authors to submit articles to its newest issue (37/2022).
Manuscripts should be submitted to the e-mail address: by the 15th of October 2022.
We especially encourage papers related to contemporary cultural and ethnographic research on all the areas of the Middle East, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Details are available here and on the website. (http://hemispheres.iksiopan.pl/index.php/pl/)
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Southern Jordan between Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Recent research of the Jagiellonian University in At-Tafileh, Shawbak and Feynan microregions.
During his lecture, Dr Piotr, Kołodziejczyk, Jagiellonian University, Cracow will present the results of research led since 2017 by the Jagiellonian University team in southern Jordan, with special attention to the excavations conducted between 2019 and 2021.
The Polish team carried out a series of test trenches at three sites located in selected microregions of At-Tafileh, Shawbak and Feynan which allowed new interesting observations about the human occupation of this territory during the Late Prehistory. Excavations at the sites of Umm Tuweyrat, Huseinya and Wadi Feynan 101 brought about a new picture of the everyday life of their inhabitants, elements of their spiritual culture but also a new assessment of interaction with the surrounding landscape.
At the dolmen field at Umm Tuweyrat, Shawbak, some observations were made regarding the site's extent, its dating and construction techniques for dolmen graves in this area. A significant and rare discovery of a preserved burial in one of the dolmens, currently under the detailed study, will hopefully allow confirming the dating of the group of dolmens at this site.
At the second site – Huseiniya, a remarkable fragment of a stone residential building was uncovered, initially dated at the turn of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. The building was a half-dugout, with a large hearth against one of the walls. A decorated bone weaving tool was found inside the building. Ongoing radiocarbon analysis of the charcoal samples is aimed at the verification of the structure's dating and, subsequently, its inclusion in the network of many others located in the multi-hectare complex.
The latest research conducted in 2021 in Wadi Feynan at the site WF101, which was identified already several decades ago by British archaeologists, allowed us to reconsider previous observations based on surface finds and establish new interpretations for the stone structures located here as residential buildings and farm structures.