punctu

content/article/tsakoswelsby.md

@@ -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.
 
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ among the inhabitants of the villages she visited.
 
 Finally, chapter 8 by Frances Welsh is about "Architecture and life in
 villages of the Fourth Nile Cataract in the region of al Tiref"
-(pp.190--238). This chapter is a continuation of Reshetnikova's in terms
+(pp. 190--238). This chapter is a continuation of Reshetnikova's in terms
 of the geography it covers moving upstream from Dar el-Arab, while it
 functions in a complementary manner since Welsh also exhaustively
 presents the different types of buildings, their function in the