العاج في التراث السوداني : دراسة في الاستمرارية الحضارية في السودان

الملخص EN

This study aims to shed light on Ivory as a civilizational element known to the Sudanese heritage through different periods.

The element of Ivory and the study relies on interdisciplinary approach.

vory is not a material cultural element that can be shaped ,sculpted and modified, so it has developed into different forms and cultural products.

The methodology that we applied after isolating it form the universal human cultural phenomena and following it as authentic part stemming from local Sudanese environment was imposed on us.

Ivory was not in Sudan alone it was found in Asia, and Africa, especially in its west and center.

We wanted to study the phenomenon of ivory in Sudan to study the unigueness and characterstics of civilizational continuity through along history that axtended to more than ten thousand years, which is considered one of the most important results of this study.

Al so the study of ivory provides an opportunity to study the rest of the other elements .Ivory is one of the living civilizational symbolos in the Sudanese culture and heritage.