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<< Text Pages >> El Kadada Neolithic Tomb - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Sudan

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 18 February 2008  Page Views: 7158

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: El Kadada Neolithic Tomb
Country: Sudan
NOTE: This site is 49.586 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Shendi  Nearest Village: El Kadada
Latitude: 16.691390N  Longitude: 33.434170E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Neolithic Tomb in Sudan. French archaeologists in Sudan say they have uncovered the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Africa, hailing the discovery as the biggest Neolithic find on the continent for years. The tomb of a 5 500-year-old man surrounded by three sacrificed humans, two dogs and exquisite ceramics were exhumed north of Khartoum by Neolithic expert Jacques Reinhold and his 66-year-old Austrian wife.

"This is the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Sudan, in Egypt, in Africa," Reinhold told reporters next to the remains in El Kadada village, a three-hour drive north of the Sudanese capital.

"I don't know of another example in Africa at this level...We don't have anything as strong in other excavations in other countries," said Reinhold, as villagers in traditional white robes carefully scrapped earth into buckets.

The archaeologist, who has led the excavation for several months, described the tomb as the most important Neolithic find in Africa since the 1990s.

That period - which Reinhold calls the first global revolution - marks the period when man evolved from hunter gatherers into farmers and producers, forever changing the structure of human society.

He says the find is nearly 1 000 years older what many consider Sudan's most spectacular discoveries of human sacrifice - scores of bodies buried together.

Close to the Nile and highly fertile, the El Kadada area north of the modern town of Shendi would have been highly favourable for Neolithic settlers.

Reinhold and wife Ulla met in Khartoum and lived in Sudan for 25 years where he was director of the Section Francaise de la Direction des Antiquities.

The French team said that urns, materials used to grind wheat into flour, beeds and bracelets also uncovered at the site will be donated to the National Museum in Khartoum.

More, with dig photo at the Sudan Tribune

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Note: Archaeologists find human sacrifice site
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Re: El Kadada Neolithic Tomb by Anonymous on Monday, 22 September 2008
I read the original article pretty carefully and could find no reference to the "dolmen" referred to in your main headings for this information.

Am I missing something ??
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