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"THE execvation of this site has revealed more than it-was possible to hope that it would when it was undertaken in the face of so much disturbance". This modest understatement introduces the author's summary in a publication of outstanding importance to late African prehistory. For the culture of Early Khartoum here revealed represents that increasingly rare and precious thing in prehistory— a discovery of the hitherto unknown, not, as is now usual, the amplification of the incompletely known. As such, it has no rival in the Nile Valley since Faiyum-Merimdian and Tasa-Badarian civilizations were unearthed not far short of a quarter of a century ago.
Early Khartoum
An Account of the Excavation of an Early Occupation Site carried out by the Sudan Government Antiquities Service in 1944–5. By A. J. Arkell. (Published for the Sudan Government.) Pp. xvi + 146 + 113 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1949.) £5 5s. 0d. net.
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CATON-THOMPSON, G. Early Khartoum. Nature 164, 376–377 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164376a0
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