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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ keywords: ["Book review", "MDASP", "Fourth Cataract", "Derek Welsby", "Sudan", "
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The volume at hand is, as stated in its summary (pp. xxx-xxxi), "the
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first of several which will present in detail the results of the research
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undertaken by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS) as a part
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of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project (MDASP)". By this
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of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project (MDASP)." By this
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statement alone, one should welcome most warmly this publication, since
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it is launching a series of volumes that will make public the immense
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data collected during the MDASP since the completion of the project in
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@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ Robert Bussert, and Ronny Schomacker describe "The landscape of the
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Fourth Nile Cataract and its geomorphologic evolution" (pp. 15--45);
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while Arnaud Malterer provides a summary of the master thesis that he
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wrote in Chapter 3 titled "Merowe Dam Project. Land use and Vegetation
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in the Flooding Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan" (pp. 46--
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78). Both chapters are very rich in information and set in place the
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in the Flooding Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan" (pp. 46--78).
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Both chapters are very rich in information and set in place the
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environment upon which humans developed the cultures that were hosted in
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the Fourth Cataract of the Nile region. The scientific accuracy of the
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descriptions is impressive in both chapters. There is, however, a
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@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ Wolf et al's contribution, but it raises a question as to the target
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readership of such a publication. If this should be decided on the basis
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of Chapter 2, then the record is to be kept for those that in the future
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will need it for further studies on relevant fields; it acts as metadata
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to an archive. But is it necessary in the 21^st^ century with the
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to an archive. But is it necessary in the 21st century with the
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immensity of digital solutions to choose the vector of a printed book
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for such a task? One must not lose sight that a variety of readers,
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including (primarily?) those English-speaking deracinated locals, long
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for a such a "book" to remember their "paradise lost". Conversely, the
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for a such a "book" to remember their "paradise lost." Conversely, the
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goal of such publications may simply be to make data available to the
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specialized public, and not to create synthetic, edited overviews of
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topics based on the data accumulated by the researchers and interpreted
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expectation after the 15 years that it took from the end of the MDASP
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project to the publication of the volume. The present reviewer feels
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that the editor of the volume *did not have the time* to choose the
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second option but wanted this first volume "out". The contributors had to
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second option but wanted this first volume "out." The contributors had to
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submit their work within the publication's deadlines; this time pressure
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is felt elsewhere in the volume too, primarily in the many typographic
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mistakes and some unnecessary contradictions. The most striking example
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of the latter is that Volume VI on "The rock art and rock gongs", which
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of the latter is that Volume VI on "The rock art and rock gongs," which
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was announced in p. xxx in the Summary of the volume, is not included in
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the description of the SARS' publication of the project in p. 12.
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Finally, chapter 8 by Frances Welsh is about "Architecture and life in
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villages of the Fourth Nile Cataract in the region of al Tiref"
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(pp.190--238). This chapter is a continuation of Reshetnikova's in terms
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(pp. 190--238). This chapter is a continuation of Reshetnikova's in terms
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of the geography it covers moving upstream from Dar el-Arab, while it
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functions in a complementary manner since Welsh also exhaustively
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presents the different types of buildings, their function in the
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deriving from the controversial "Archaeology by the Fourth Nile
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Cataract."
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**Appendix: The contents of the volume**
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Preface. Salahedin Mohamed Ahmed
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Chapter 9: Bibliography for Volume I
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**References**
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Carruthers, William. *Flooded Pasts. UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology*, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022.
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Haberlah David and Jutta von dem Bussche. "Das Dorf Atoyah auf der Insel Sherari. Wandel der Siedlungsstruktur im Dar al-Manasir." *Der Antike Sudan: Mitteilungen der
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Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin* 16 (2005): pp. 125--135.
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Hafsaas-Tsakos, Henriette. "Ethical implications of salvage archaeology and dam building: The clash between archaeologists and local people in Dar al-Manasir, Sudan."
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*Journal of social archaeology* 11(1), 49--76.
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Hafsaas-Tsakos, Henriette. "Ethical Implications of Salvage Archaeology and Dam Building: The Clash between Archaeologists and Local People in Dar al-Manasir, Sudan."
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*Journal of Social Archaeology* 11(1), 49--76.
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[^1]: The results of the Scandinavian Joint Expedition are the only
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archaeology and dam building."
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[^3]: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803274959
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(last accessed November 2023).
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(last accessed November 2024).
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[^4]: See for example, Haberlah, "Cultural Landscape of Dar
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al-Manasir."
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@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ of their displacement in December 1964. In doing so, she also examines
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her grandfather's house. Sadeq's interest in her family's experience of
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resettlement and making a home resonates with her theoretical framework
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about senses of home. Her work underscores the importance of the social
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and emotion components of homescapes as well as the materiality of place
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and emotional components of homescapes as well as the materiality of place
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and landscape.
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Although these individuals creatively remodeled domestic space to better
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Karine Benafla, 32-3. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2023.
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[^1]: For a basic geographic and temporal introduction to Nubia, see
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Janmyr, \"The Nubians of Egypt: a displaced population,\".
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Janmyr, \"The Nubians of Egypt: a displaced population.\"
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[^2]: Ingold, \"The Temporality of the Landscape,\".
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[^2]: Ingold, \"The Temporality of the Landscape.\"
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[^3]: Alice Yao described this process for the people who were relocated
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to live along the Great Wall in Han China. See Yao, \"The
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Great Wall as Destination? Archaeology of Migration and Settlers
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under the Han Empire,\".
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under the Han Empire.\"
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[^4]: For an overview of the four main waves of Nubian settlement in
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Cairo from 1902 until 1964, see Youssef and Madbouly,
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\"Displaced People and Migrants in Cairo,\".
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\"Displaced People and Migrants in Cairo.\".
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[^5]: The High Dam (*as-Sad al-\'Aali*) was completed in 1970. The
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reservoir reached its full capacity six years later.
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