干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Local Foods and Traded Goods-the Faunal Remains from a Napatan Outpost at Gala Abu Ahmed (Sudan, First Millennium BC)

Arid

DOI	10.1007/s10437-015-9194-7
	Local Foods and Traded Goods-the Faunal Remains from a Napatan Outpost at Gala Abu Ahmed (Sudan, First Millennium BC)
	Linseele, Veerle; Poellath, Nadja
通讯作者	Linseele, V (corresponding author), Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr Archaeol Sci, Celestijnenlaan 200E Bus 2409, B-3001 Louvain, Belgium.
来源期刊	AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW
ISSN	0263-0338
EISSN	1572-9842
出版年	2015
卷号	32 期号:3 页码:537-590
英文摘要	Seventeen thousand six hundred and forty-five faunal remains from recent excavations at the pre-Napatan and Napatan fortress Gala Abu Ahmed, about 110 km west of the Nile in the lower Wadi Howar, have been identified. The results are described in detail as they represent the first large dataset for the period and region and can therefore serve as a benchmark for future studies. They are also informative for the organisation of life at outposts. Overall, there is not much that distinguishes the fauna from Gala Abu Ahmed from ordinary settlement waste. The presence of many very young caprines suggests that one building may have been used by higher status individuals. Another one, where many cowrie shells were recorded, seems to have had a ritual function. Mainly locally available animal resources were consumed, predominantly goat and sheep. However, some resources must have been brought in from the Nile Valley as well, including cattle. The environment around Gala Abu Ahmed appears to have been an arid desert area, but thanks to wells, livestock could be kept. The fauna did not yield any particular evidence that may be related to one of its presumed main functions, that of a trade post. Other outposts in north-eastern Africa are younger than Gala Abu Ahmed, and the diversity of their fauna reflects the diversity in their specific function, organisation and the people occupying them.
英文关键词	Archaeozoology Sudan Napata Fort
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000361648800006
WOS关键词	MORPHOLOGICAL DISTINCTIONS ; MANDIBULAR TEETH ; SHEEP ; MANDIBLES ; GOATS ; EGYPT ; OVIS
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361498
作者单位	[Linseele, Veerle] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr Archaeol Sci, B-3001 Louvain, Belgium; [Linseele, Veerle] Royal Belgian Inst Nat Sci, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; [Poellath, Nadja] Univ Munich, ArchaeoBioCtr, Inst Palaoanat & Geschichte Tiermed, D-80539 Munich, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Linseele, Veerle,Poellath, Nadja. Local Foods and Traded Goods-the Faunal Remains from a Napatan Outpost at Gala Abu Ahmed (Sudan, First Millennium BC)[J],2015,32(3):537-590.
APA	Linseele, Veerle,&Poellath, Nadja.(2015).Local Foods and Traded Goods-the Faunal Remains from a Napatan Outpost at Gala Abu Ahmed (Sudan, First Millennium BC).AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW,32(3),537-590.
MLA	Linseele, Veerle,et al."Local Foods and Traded Goods-the Faunal Remains from a Napatan Outpost at Gala Abu Ahmed (Sudan, First Millennium BC)".AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW 32.3(2015):537-590.