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Did meroitic rulers build fortifications? Fortified sites and politics in Upper Nubia during the fall of Meroe and rise of the Kingdom of Alodia

2016/21/D/HS3/02972

Keywords:

Nubia Middle Nile valley Meroitic Kingdom Alodia Kingdom fortifications fortified sites

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)
  • HS3_12: Cultural heritage, cultural memory (incl. inventory of monuments and monuments of culture, local history)
  • HS2_8: History and theory of art, visual arts, visual culture

Panel:

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

Host institution :

Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Mariusz Drzewiecki 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: SONATA 11 - announced on 2016-03-15

Amount awarded: 272 742 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-04-19

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2020-04-18

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (3)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (4)
  1. Forts of North Omdurman: First season of fieldwork in Hosh el-Kab and Abu Nafisa
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki, Aneta Cedro, Robert Ryndziewicz, Elmontaser Dafaalla Mohamed Elamin Elmoubark, Włodzimierz Rączkowski
    Academic press:
    Sudan and Nubia (rok: 2018, tom: 22, strony: 127-141), Wydawca: The Sudan Archaeological Research Society
    Status:
    Published
  2. New insights into the history of early Alwa based on the recent archaeological research in Umm Marrahi, Hosh el-Kab and Abu Nafisa forts (Khartoum Province)
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki, Aneta Cedro
    Academic press:
    Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa , Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  3. Baraka z głębi kamienia czyli o niecodziennym wykorzystaniu stanowiska archeologicznego
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki
    Academic press:
    Archeologia Żywa (rok: 2019, tom: 72(2), strony: 66-73), Wydawca: Instytut Badań Historycznych i Krajobrazowych Sp. z o.o.
    Status:
    Published
  4. Recent research at Jebel Umm Marrahi (Khartoum Province)
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki, Aneta Cedro
    Academic press:
    Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V (rok: 2019, tom: 30, strony: 117-130), Wydawca: Sudanarchäologische Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V.
    Status:
    Published
  5. Zagadka trzech fortów w sercu Afryki
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki
    Academic press:
    Archeologia Żywa (rok: 2018, tom: 1 (67), strony: 62-67), Wydawca: Instytut Badań Historycznych i Krajobrazowych Sp. z o.o.
    Status:
    Published
  1. Political changes and fortifications. Who and why built defences in Upper Nubia in late Antiquity
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki
    Conference:
    12th International Conference for Meroitic Studies (rok: 2017, ), Wydawca: Muzeum Narodowe w Pradze
    Data:
    konferencja 5-9.09.2016
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. Prospekcja geofizyczna założeń obronnych w Górnej Nubii. Studium przypadku późnoantycznego fortu Hosh el-Kab
    Authors:
    Robert Ryndziewicz, Mariusz Drzewiecki
    Conference:
    Metody Geofizyczne w Archeologii Polskiej 2018 (rok: 2018, ), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
    Data:
    konferencja 21–23 listopada 2018
    Status:
    Published
  3. Archaeo–geophysical prospection of forts in the North Omdurman (Sudan)
    Authors:
    Robert Ryndziewicz, Mariusz Drzewiecki
    Conference:
    13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: Archaeopress, Oxford
    Data:
    konferencja 28.08-1.09
    Status:
    Published
  1. Expedition to Hosh el-Kab, Abu Nafisa, and Umm Marrahi forts. Preliminary report from the first season of fieldwork conducted from January 9th to 25th, 2018 with an appendix on a trial geophysical survey in Soba East conducted on January 26th, 2018
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki, Aneta Cedro, Włodzimierz Rączkowski, Robert Ryndziewicz
    Book:
    Raport z badań terenowych (rok: 2018, tom: brak, strony: 11689), Wydawca: publikacja internetowa
    Status:
    Published
  2. Roman type forts in the Middle Nile valley. Late antique fortlets between patterns of Roman military architecture and local tradition
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki
    Book:
    Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience. Barbarian perspectives and Roman strategies to deal with new threats (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology series) (rok: 2020, tom: 76, strony: 179-192), Wydawca: Archaeopress
    Status:
    Published
  3. -
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki, Aneta Cedro (with contributions: Marta Osypińska, Dobrochna Zielińska, Barbara Wagner, Joanna Then-Obłuska, Olga Syta, Paweł Bącal, Andrzej Ostrowski, Grażyna Zofia Żukowska, Agata Bebel-Nowak)
    Book:
    Forts of North Omdurman , Wydawca: Peeters
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  4. Expedition to Hosh el-Kab, Abu Nafisa, and Umm Marrahi forts. Preliminary report from the second season of fieldwork conducted from November 13th to December 8th, 2018 with an appendix on an aerial survey of Soba East on 12th and 13th December 2018
    Authors:
    Mariusz Drzewiecki, Aneta Cedro, Robert Ryndziewicz, Selma Khogli Ali Ahmed
    Book:
    Raport z badań terenowych (rok: 2018, tom: -, strony: 45320), Wydawca: publikacja internetowa
    Status:
    Published