إضاءات حول أثار ما قبل التاريخ في شرق السودان

Author

الطيب، محمد الفاتح حياتي عبد الله

Source

مجلة القلزم للدراسات الآثارية و السياحية : علمية دورية محكمة

Publisher

مركز بحوث و دراسات دول حوض البحر الأحمر

Publication Date

2020-10-31

Country of Publication

Sudan

No. of Pages

17

Main Subjects

History and Geography

English Abstract

This paper presented some cultural aspects of prehistoric cultural phases in all its chronology in eastern Sudan and the Red Sea region.

This region has gained its significance from the distinguished geographic factors that related to the Red Sea coastline, this location has created a homogeneity of many cultures throughout the vast area closed to the Red Sea coast and beyond, moreover, the Red Sea has been a cultural gateway and corridor since ancient times, it has been a pathway of migration of early human from the western coast to southwestern Asia, and to move through the coasts to the horn of Africa and North Africa (Amanuel 2019: 1).

Reconnaissance’s also shown the Homo Erectus dispersal, where he has left Africa through the Red Sea toward the Mediterranean area, therefore, although there is a semi consensus on African origin of early humans, there is disagreement about how and when they dispersed, nevertheless we don’t have decisive results.

This paper relies on narrating the historical facts based on archaeological field research, in order to reach the nature of the cultures that influenced the region during prehistoric periods.

This means that we relied on the results of this research published in various means of knowledge.

Nevertheless, due to its scanty, but it covered many areas of the Red Sea region and eastern Sudan generally.

It has been conducted many archaeological researches related to prehistoric antiquities in eastern Sudan region, the results indicate that the region was characterized by the environmental richness and unpredictability what attracted people to live in, which means that the region has flourished significantly during the Palaeolithic, as all the characteristics ingredients and facilities that help man to live are available, whether the various sources of subsistence such as preys, grains and fruits are available, in addition to the raw material from which stone tools were made, as well, the mountains along the eastern desert and the Red Sea was provided types of stones from which the Prehistoric human made various stone tools.

During the late prehistoric stage, the Red Sea played a major role in the transfer of cultures to and from the African interior and the Arabian Peninsula, the stage of food production was a kind of extraordinary evolution in human life.

The Red Sea had has a clear impact on the transfer of production culture, this indicates that the region was not empty of the population during that period (Mohammed-Ali 1984).

The study recommends increasing the rate of archaeological, environmental and ethnographic research in the region in order to cover the whole area, as it is very vast, that requires a great effort of administrative bodies, academic and even civil society organizations can be participated in this work.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-1322071

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