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Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan

Costanzo, Stefano ; Brandolini, Filippo ; Idriss Ahmed, Habab ; Zerboni, Andrea ; Manzo, Andrea Iovita, Radu

PloS one, 2021-07, Vol.16 (7), p.e0253511-e0253511 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan
Autor: Costanzo, Stefano ; Brandolini, Filippo ; Idriss Ahmed, Habab ; Zerboni, Andrea ; Manzo, Andrea
Iovita, Radu
Assuntos: Analysis ; Archaeology ; Arid regions ; Arid zones ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Computer and Information Sciences ; Cosmology ; Cultural factors ; Datasets ; Earth Sciences ; Ecology ; Ecology and Environmental Sciences ; Fieldwork ; Funding ; Galaxies ; Human behavior ; Human ecology ; Islamization ; Memorials & monuments ; Methods ; Monuments ; Pattern analysis ; People and Places ; Remote sensing ; Semi arid areas ; Semiarid lands ; Semiarid zones ; Sepulchral monuments ; Social Sciences ; Spatial analysis (Statistics) ; Spatial distribution ; Superstructures
É parte de: PloS one, 2021-07, Vol.16 (7), p.e0253511-e0253511
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Descrição: Funerary landscapes are eminent results of the relationship between environments and superstructural human behavior, spanning over wide territories and growing over centuries. The comprehension of such cultural palimpsests needs substantial research efforts in the field of human ecology. The funerary landscape of the semi-arid region of Kassala (Eastern Sudan) represents a solid example. Therein, geoarchaeological surveys and the creation of a desk-based dataset of thousands of diachronic funerary monuments (from early tumuli up to modern Beja people islamic tombs) were achieved by means of fieldwork and remote sensing over an area of ~4100 km.sup.2 . The wealth of generated information was employed to decipher the spatial arrangement of sites and monuments using Point Pattern Analysis. The enormous number of monuments and their spatial distribution are here successfully explained using, for the first time in archaeology, the Neyman-Scott Cluster Process, hitherto designed for cosmology. Our study highlights the existence of a built funerary landscape with galaxy-like aggregations of monuments driven by multiple layers of societal behavior. We suggest that the distribution of monuments was controlled by a synthesis of opportunistic geological constraints and cultural superstructure, conditioned by the social memory of the Beja people who have inhabited the region for two thousand years and still cherish the ancient tombs as their own kin's.
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Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan

Costanzo, Stefano ; Brandolini, Filippo ; Idriss Ahmed, Habab ; Zerboni, Andrea ; Manzo, Andrea Iovita, Radu

San Francisco: Public Library of Science

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