干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan

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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0253511
	Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan
	Costanzo, Stefano; Brandolini, Filippo; Idriss Ahmed, Habab; Zerboni, Andrea; Manzo, Andrea
通讯作者	Costanzo, S (corresponding author), Univ Napoli LOrientale, Dipartimento Asia Africa & Mediterraneo, Naples, Italy. ; Brandolini, F (corresponding author), Newcastle Univ, McCord Ctr Landscape, Sch Hist Class & Archaeol, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England. ; Zerboni, A (corresponding author), Univ Milan, Dipartimento Sci Terra A Desio, Milan, Italy.
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2021
卷号	16 期号:7
英文摘要	Funerary landscapes are eminent results of the relationship between environments and superstructural human behavior, spanning over wide territories and growing over centuries. The comprehension of such cultural palimpsests needs substantial research efforts in the field of human ecology. The funerary landscape of the semi-arid region of Kassala (Eastern Sudan) represents a solid example. Therein, geoarchaeological surveys and the creation of a desk-based dataset of thousands of diachronic funerary monuments (from early tumuli up to modern Beja people islamic tombs) were achieved by means of fieldwork and remote sensing over an area of similar to 4100 km(2). The wealth of generated information was employed to decipher the spatial arrangement of sites and monuments using Point Pattern Analysis. The enormous number of monuments and their spatial distribution are here successfully explained using, for the first time in archaeology, the Neyman-Scott Cluster Process, hitherto designed for cosmology. Our study highlights the existence of a built funerary landscape with galaxy-like aggregations of monuments driven by multiple layers of societal behavior. We suggest that the distribution of monuments was controlled by a synthesis of opportunistic geological constraints and cultural superstructure, conditioned by the social memory of the Beja people who have inhabited the region for two thousand years and still cherish the ancient tombs as their own kin's.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000674294100016
WOS关键词	STONE CAIRNS ; POINT ; ARCHAEOLOGY ; SETTLEMENT ; MONUMENTS ; PATTERNS ; REGION ; PERIOD ; TIME
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/364380
作者单位	[Costanzo, Stefano; Manzo, Andrea] Univ Napoli LOrientale, Dipartimento Asia Africa & Mediterraneo, Naples, Italy; [Brandolini, Filippo] Newcastle Univ, McCord Ctr Landscape, Sch Hist Class & Archaeol, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England; [Idriss Ahmed, Habab] NCAM Natl Corp Antiqu & Museums, Khartoum, Sudan; [Zerboni, Andrea] Univ Milan, Dipartimento Sci Terra A Desio, Milan, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Costanzo, Stefano,Brandolini, Filippo,Idriss Ahmed, Habab,et al. Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan[J],2021,16(7).
APA	Costanzo, Stefano,Brandolini, Filippo,Idriss Ahmed, Habab,Zerboni, Andrea,&Manzo, Andrea.(2021).Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan.PLOS ONE,16(7).
MLA	Costanzo, Stefano,et al."Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan".PLOS ONE 16.7(2021).