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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ keywords: ["Book review", "MDASP", "Fourth Cataract", "Derek Welsby", "Sudan", "
The volume at hand is, as stated in its summary (pp. xxx-xxxi), "the
first of several which will present in detail the results of the research
undertaken by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS) as a part
of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project (MDASP)". By this
of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project (MDASP)." By this
statement alone, one should welcome most warmly this publication, since
it is launching a series of volumes that will make public the immense
data collected during the MDASP since the completion of the project in
@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ Robert Bussert, and Ronny Schomacker describe "The landscape of the
Fourth Nile Cataract and its geomorphologic evolution" (pp. 15--45);
while Arnaud Malterer provides a summary of the master thesis that he
wrote in Chapter 3 titled "Merowe Dam Project. Land use and Vegetation
in the Flooding Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan" (pp. 46--
78). Both chapters are very rich in information and set in place the
in the Flooding Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan" (pp. 46--78).
Both chapters are very rich in information and set in place the
environment upon which humans developed the cultures that were hosted in
the Fourth Cataract of the Nile region. The scientific accuracy of the
descriptions is impressive in both chapters. There is, however, a
@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ Wolf et al's contribution, but it raises a question as to the target
readership of such a publication. If this should be decided on the basis
of Chapter 2, then the record is to be kept for those that in the future
will need it for further studies on relevant fields; it acts as metadata
to an archive. But is it necessary in the 21^st^ century with the
to an archive. But is it necessary in the 21st century with the
immensity of digital solutions to choose the vector of a printed book
for such a task? One must not lose sight that a variety of readers,
including (primarily?) those English-speaking deracinated locals, long
for a such a "book" to remember their "paradise lost". Conversely, the
for a such a "book" to remember their "paradise lost." Conversely, the
goal of such publications may simply be to make data available to the
specialized public, and not to create synthetic, edited overviews of
topics based on the data accumulated by the researchers and interpreted
@ -129,11 +129,11 @@ by the given author(s) and editor(s) so as to be interesting for a wider
expectation after the 15 years that it took from the end of the MDASP
project to the publication of the volume. The present reviewer feels
that the editor of the volume *did not have the time* to choose the
second option but wanted this first volume "out". The contributors had to
second option but wanted this first volume "out." The contributors had to
submit their work within the publication's deadlines; this time pressure
is felt elsewhere in the volume too, primarily in the many typographic
mistakes and some unnecessary contradictions. The most striking example
of the latter is that Volume VI on "The rock art and rock gongs", which
of the latter is that Volume VI on "The rock art and rock gongs," which
was announced in p. xxx in the Summary of the volume, is not included in
the description of the SARS' publication of the project in p. 12.