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A Reconstruction of Trade Contacts in Northeast Africa: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Nubian Personal Adornment

2013/09/D/HS3/04508

Keywords:

Nubia beads,material culture trade contacts LA-ICP-MS

Descriptors:

  • HS3_8: Archaeology (incl. archaeology of Greece and Rome, archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, archaeology of Near East, archeology of the New World, pre- and protohistorical archaeology, archaeology of early medieval period, medieval archeology, archeology of modern period)
  • ST4_6: Instrumental methods in chemistry

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej im. prof. Kazimierza Michałowskiego

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Joanna Then-Obłuska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: SONATA 5 - announced on 2013-03-15

Amount awarded: 417 700 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-03-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-03-11

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Obiektyw fotograficzny Cannon Macro 180 mm (5 000 PLN)
  2. Karty kolorów paciorków Munsella (500 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (12)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (3)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. Beads and Pendants from Sedeinga, Nubia
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 27 (2015) (rok: 2015, tom: 27, strony: 29-45), Wydawca: The Society of Bead Researchers
    Status:
    Published
  2. Meroitic beadwork: an overview based on finds from Saï in ancient Nubia
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2016, tom: 25, strony: 691-724), Wydawca: University of Warsaw
    Status:
    Published
  3. Beads and pendants from the late Harbor Temple and harbor temenos in the Red Sea port of Berenike (seasons 2010–2013): materials, techniques, functions and affiliations
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM) (rok: 2017, tom: 26-2, strony: 193-210), Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Published
  4. Cross-cultural bead encounters at the Red Sea port site of Berenike, Egypt, Preliminary assessment (seasons 2009–2012)
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM) (rok: 2015, tom: 24-1, strony: 735-777), Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Published
  5. Royal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450-550), Early Makuria Research Project. PAM 26-1
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2017, tom: 26-1, strony: 687-718), Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Published
  6. Trade and faith in Nubian Early Makuria (AD 450–550): macroscopic examination of personal adornments from El-Zuma in Nubia
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. Research (PAM) (rok: 2016, tom: 25, strony: 741-760), Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Published
  7. Glass beads and pendants from Meroitic and Nobadian Lower Nubia, Sudan: chemical compositional analysis using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska and Barbara Wagner
    Academic press:
    Archaeometry , Wydawca: Wiley-Blackwell
    Status:
    Submitted
  8. An Early Roman mosaic glass 'flower' bead from Musawwarat
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. (MittSAG) (rok: 2014, tom: 25, strony: 69-72), Wydawca: Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Status:
    Published
  9. Beads and pendants from the tumuli cemeteries at Wadi Qitna and Kalabsha-South, Nubia
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers (rok: 2016, tom: 28, strony: 38-49), Wydawca: The Society of Bead Researchers
    Status:
    Published
  10. Between the Nile and the Ocean. The bead assemblage from Shenshef in the Eastern Desert (4th-6th centuries AD)
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2017, tom: 26-1, strony: 719-747), Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Published
  11. Early Makuria Research Project. Late antique beads and a Napatan amulet from the Early Makuria Phase II tumuli cemetery at El-Detti (about AD 450-550), Season 2015
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. (MittSAG) (rok: 2016, tom: 27, strony: 133-138), Wydawca: Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Status:
    Published
  12. Jewels of Ancient Nubia" – a glance through the eye bead from Berenike
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Academic press:
    Der Antike Sudan, Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. MittSAG (rok: 2015, tom: 26, strony: 263-266), Wydawca: Humboldt University
    Status:
    Published
  1. Glass bead trade in Northeast Africa in the Roman period – a view according to The Museum of Archaeology University of Stavanger assemblage
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska, Barbara Wagner
    Conference:
    20e Congrès de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre /The 20th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass, Friburg, Switzerland (rok: 2017, ), Wydawca: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
    Data:
    konferencja 7-11.09.2015
    Status:
    Published
  2. Bead trade in Roman ports – a view from the Red Sea port Marsa Nakari
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Conference:
    The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Alternative Maritime Routes in the Development of Global Economy, from the Late Prehistory to Modern Times, The Seventh International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region and Their Environment, Neapol–Procida, Italy , Wydawca: BRILL
    Data:
    konferencja 26-30.05.2015
    Status:
    Submitted
  3. Short and long distance contacts of Late Antique Nubia: a view through the bead hole
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Conference:
    The 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies, University of Neuchâtel, 1st to 6th of September 2014 , Wydawca: Peeters
    Data:
    konferencja 1st to 6th of September 2014
    Status:
    Submitted
  1. Beads and pendants
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Book:
    Berenike Report, Seasons 2010–2011 [=PCMA Excavation Series 4] (rok: 2017, tom: 1, strony: 367-399), Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Published
  2. Monografia
    Authors:
    Then-Obłuska, J., Wagner, B.
    Book:
    Glass Bead Trade in Northeast Africa, The Evidence from Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Nubia , Wydawca: University of Warsaw Press
    Status:
    Submitted
  3. The bead side story of Medieval and post-Medieval Nubia: A tentative approach to the bead collection of the Museum of Archaeology University of Stavanger, Norway
    Authors:
    Joanna Then-Obłuska
    Book:
    Aegyptus et Nubia, Jubilee Volume for Professor Włodzimierz Godlewski (rok: 2016, tom: 1, strony: 579-612), Wydawca: University of Warsaw
    Status:
    Published