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Location:

The Jebel Moya massif is in the southern area of the Gezira Plain, between the Blue and White Niles. It is approximately 250 km south southeast of Khartoum.

History:

Excavations at Jebel Moya on January 29th, 1911 under Sir Henry Wellcome, which continued for four seasons, until 1914 when further plans were abandoned due to the onset of WWII. During those four seasons, approximately a fifth of the 10.4 hectare site was excavated. 3135 burials in 2791 graves were excavated, which marks Jebel Moya as the largest burial complex (yet) in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1946, the Trustees of Sir Henry Wellcome’s estate submitted a collection of human remains and field records from Jebel Moya to the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Cambridge. Due to bad storage etc, less than ten percent of the original material survived.

Jebel Moya Reference List:

Bothmer, Bernard V., and Frank Addison. “Jebel Moya.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 55, no. 4, 1951, p. 416., doi:10.2307/500255.

Brass, Michael. “Towards an Archaeology of Social Organisation at Jebel Moya, 5Th - 1St Millennium BC.” Sudan & Nubia : the Sudan Archaeological Research Society Bulletin, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2009, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786393/.

Brass, Michael, and Jean-Luc Schwenniger. “Jebel Moya (Sudan): New Dates from a Mortuary Complex at the Southern Meroitic Frontier.” Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, vol. 48, no. 4, 2013, pp. 455–472., doi:10.1080/0067270x.2013.843258.

Brass, Mike. “Reinterpreting Chronology and Society at the Mortuary Complex of Jebel Moya (Sudan).” Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, vol. 51, no. 2, Feb. 2016, pp. 291–291., doi:10.1080/0067270x.2016.1178966.

Caneva, Isabella. “Jebel Moya Revisited: a Settlement of the 5th Millennium BC in the Middle Nile Basin.” Antiquity, vol. 65, no. 247, 1991, pp. 262–268., doi:10.1017/s0003598x00079710.

Irish, J. D., and L. Konigsberg. “The Ancient Inhabitants of Jebel Moya Redux: Measures of Population Affinity Based on Dental Morphology.” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 17, no. 2, 2007, pp. 138–156., doi:10.1002/oa.868.

Mukherjee, Ramkrishna, et al. The Ancient Inhabitants of Jebel Moya (Sudan). Cambridge University Press, 2010.