Accession No

TEMP.00533


Description

Stone pieces, possibly worked, of quartz, diorite and other stone.


Place

Africa; North Africa; South Sudan; ?Nying'ora; ?Napongo


Period

?Late Stone Age ?Iron Age


Source

?David, Nicholas [excavator]; ?Phillipson, David [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

TEMP.00533; NG [excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Quartz; Diorite


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found, along with TEMP.00530-TEMP.00532, in a wood crate marked 'LGC' and three handwritten notes. Two read 'N.David. S. Sudan 1979-80 (to be distributed)' and one reads 'This shelf + 1 below bones I will collect as soon as possible. K. Scott'. These probably refer to most, if not all, of all the South Sudan material found together and now assigned TEMP numbers. Nicholas David's 1982 article notes that 'the archaeological samples exported for analysis are held by the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of Cambridge, pending analysis of the flaked stone.' It seems, therefore, that this material was not intended to be permanently held by the museum, but it is not currently known where it should be held. The David article noted that 'materials of Middle Stone Age aspect are at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi... all remaining collections are stored at the Regional Ministry of Culture and Information, Juba.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Field collection)
These stone pieces were found bagged with excavation tags with the site code 'NG'. No site with these letter or initials seems to appear in Nicholas David's 1982 article, however in David Phillipson's article in the same journal he mentions two sites that might be possible: Nying'ora and Napongo. They were found amongst other material labelled as being excavated by Nicholas David in 1979, so they may have been collected during that season of excavations (the second of the four British Institute of East Africa expedition to Southern Sudan, led by Nicholas David and Amum Tor of the Sudan Antiquities Service) or possibly from the preliminary excavations/surveys directed by Phillipson between November 1977 to January 1978.
Event Date 1979
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
Phillipson, David. (1982). 'A preliminary archaeological reconnaissance of the Southern Sudan, 1977-8'. Azania, vol. XVI. pp. 1-6
Event Date 1982
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
David, N., Harvey, P. and Coudie, C.J. (1982). 'Excavations in the Southern Sudan, 1979'. Azania, vol. XVI. pp. 7-54
Event Date 1982
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Stone pieces, possibly worked, of quartz, diorite and other stone.
Event Date 8/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


FM:280842

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