Archaeology by the Fourth Nile Cataract: Survey and Excavations on the left bank of the river and on the islands between Amri and Kirbekan, Volume IV.1

Contents

List of Tables

List of Graphs

List of Figures

List of Plates

1. Introduction – Derek A. Welsby

Abbreviations used

Acknowledgements

2. The lithic collection from the SARS Concession at the Fourth Cataract – Donatella Usai

Introduction

Notes on methodology and terminology

Middle and Late Pleistocene periods: the Palaeolithic/Early and Middle Stone Age

The Holocene period: the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Kerma

Final remarks

Acknowledgements

3. Lithic assemblage analysis from early-Holocene sites 3-J-26 and 3-O-3 – Piotr Osypiński

1. Introduction

2. Lithic assemblage from site 3-J-26

3. Lithic assemblage of site 3-O-3 18

4. Results of the study of the lithics from sites 3-J-26 and 3-O-3

4. The macro-lithic tools – Donatella Usai

Introduction

Abbreviations used

The Fourth Cataract Collection

5. The Small Finds – Derek A. Welsby

Abbreviations used

Objects of metal

Objects of an unidentified metal

Objects of faience

Objects of ceramic

Objects of mud

Objects of glass

Objects of organic materials

Objects of Stone

6. Beads – Joanna Then-Obłuska

Sites and assemblages – general overview

Beads and pendants

Beadwork, bead owners, and bead uses – some comments

Conclusion

7. Glass finds from the Fourth Cataract sites: looking North, looking East – Daniela Rosenow and Thilo Rehren

Introduction

Typology

Laser Ablation – Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Discussion

Conclusion

Acknowledgement

8. Basketry and matting – Derek A. Welsby

9. Leather and skin – Barbara Burnett (Wills)

10. Scarabs – Alexander Ilin-Tomich

11. Bibliography for Volume IV , part 1