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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and
empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known
outside their modern descendants and the community of
archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them.
The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the
region's role as neighbor, trade partner, and enemy of ancient
Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures
are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies
in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement,
economy, political organization, and religious ideologies were
often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic,
and predominantly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Near
East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative
study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on the
histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The
Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an
international group of scholars on a wide variety of topics that
relate to the history and archaeology of the region. After
important introductory chapters on the history of research in Nubia
and on its climate and physical environment, the largest part of
the volume focuses on the sequence of cultures that lead almost to
the present day. Several cross-cutting themes are woven through
these chapters, including essays on desert cultures and on Nubians
in Egypt. Eleven final chapters synthesize subjects across all
historical phases, including gender and the body, economy and
trade, landscape archaeology, iron working, and stone quarrying.
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