This thesis presents an expanded bioarchaeological perspective to quantitative analyses of dental caries in the remains of 1842 ancient Egyptians and Nubians. The skeletal samples came from 17 Egyptian and 15 Nubian cemeteries, are represented by both sexes, and spanned a period…
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Ancient Nubia, located in Sudan from the First to Sixth Cataracts of the Nile River, was at the heart of contact between indigenous African societies and the Egyptian Empire (Edwards 2007). This dissertation focuses on a small farming community on the fringes of the medieval Nub…
By employing a bioarchaeological perspective, this dissertation addresses how quotidian acts are altered during and as a consequence of sociopolitical change. Specifically, variation in day-to-day activities associated with the transition from the New Kingdom to the Napatan Peri…
In spite of numerous studies, the mechanisms for the rifting, uplifting, and volcanism on the African plate remain enigmatic. The most popular hypotheses proposed for explaining these tectonic phenomena involve edge-driven small-scale mantle convection and the thermal or dynamic…
The portfolio of fifteen-hundred drawings made by the wealthy and brilliant William John Bankes (1786-1855) and his artists, travelling and working in Egypt and Nubia between 1815 and 1822, constitutes an important early scholarly record. Of particular interest are sites and mon…
Ancient Egypt's relationship with its neighbor to the south provides an excellent opportunity to examine imperialism in antiquity using a broader theoretical framework. The central problem addresses the reasons why Egyptian imperialism in Nubia changed from a system of equilibri…
The corpus of Napatan inscriptions studied here comprises the monumental royal texts written in Egyptian hieroglyphs which date from the end of Nubian domination of Egypt in the mid-seventh century B.C. to the reign of Nestasen in the second half of the fourth century B.C. The N…
One of the major problems of Nubian history is assessing the impact of Egyptian rule in Kush during the New Kingdom (c 1550-1070 BC) on the emergence of a powerful 'Egyptianised' indigenous state in the 9th-8th C BC. In order to address this issue, the nature of Egyptian rule in…
Ethnicity was a very important component of the Ancient Egyptian worldview. Scholarship from the last few hundred years has tended to focus on the study of ethnicity as presented in the Egyptian cultural record which has created a simplified picture and colored the current under…
AcrossBorders I.
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The present volume is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the results achieved by AcrossBorders, a European Research Council Project (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). With its so-called Egyptian temple town and adjacent pyramid …