Jebel Moya (Sudan): New dates from a mortuary complex at the southern Meroitic frontier

Azania

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 455-472

  Brass, Michael ^a   Schwenniger, Jean Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cemeteries; ceramics; Jebel Moya; Meroe; OSL dating; Sudan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890441648     PISSN: 0067270X     EISSN: 19455534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2013.843258     Document Type: Article

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