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An infant cemetery of the Classic Kerma period (1750–1500 BC, Island of Saï, Sudan)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

P. Murail ,
B. Maureille ,
D. Peresinotto  and
F. Geus
P. Murail
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 5809, Bordeaux 1 University, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Avenue des Facultés, F-33405 Talence cedex, France. (Email: [email protected] bordeaux1.fr)
B. Maureille
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 5809, Bordeaux 1 University, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Avenue des Facultés, F-33405 Talence cedex, France.
D. Peresinotto
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 5809, Bordeaux 1 University, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Avenue des Facultés, F-33405 Talence cedex, France.
F. Geus
Affiliation:
Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan and URA 1275, Lille III University, France.
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Abstract

Excavation of a Classic Kerma cemetery in Sudan revealed a number of burials segregated by age, throwing into question a presumed disregard for the burial of the young. Burial rites were varied according to the age of the deceased and show a remarkable concern for the ritual burial of infants and the stillborn

Keywords

AfricaNubiaKerma cultureburial practiceschildrenperinatals
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 300 , June 2004 , pp. 267 - 277
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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