Burials from Cemetery Wad Ben Naga C260 – First Report

Pages 155–167
DOI 10.37520/anpm.2020.012
Keywords Wad Ben Naga, post-Meroitic cemetery, Christian cemetery, grave goods, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology
Type of Article Research report
Citation JUNGOVÁ, Gabriela. Burials from Cemetery Wad Ben Naga C260 – First Report. Annals of the Náprstek Museum. Prague: National Museum, 2020, 41(2), 155–167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/anpm.2020.012. ISSN 0231-844X (print), 2533-5685 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/aotnpm/41-2/burials-from-cemetery-wad-ben-naga-c260-first-report
Annals of the Náprstek Museum | 2020/41/2

During the sixteenth–eighteenth excavation seasons, cemetery WBN C260 at the archaeological site of Wad Ben Naga (Sudan) yielded the remains of fourteen individuals, both adult and non-adult. The burials, tentatively dated as post-Meroitic/Christian, were oriented to the north or north-west, with scarce grave goods, simple substructures, and no identified superstructures. Anthropological analysis revealed non-specific signs of stress including porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia, linear enamel hypoplasia, and endocranial lesions known as serpens endocrania symmetrica.

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