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AN early occupation site at Esh Shaheinab on the west bank of the Nile about thirty miles north of Omdurman was excavated under the auspices of the Sudan Government Antiquities Service in January and February 1949. Polished stone axe-heads, gouges, chisels and planes, small disk beads of amazon-stone, and serrated bivalve shells show that the culture was closely connected with that of the Fayum Neolithic a thousand miles to the north. The type of settlement was also similar, with numerous hearths but no other trace of houses, and no burials in the settlement.
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See "Early Khartoum" (Oxford University Press, 1949).
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ARKELL, A. Discovery of Neolithic Polished Bone Axe-Heads in Africa. Nature 164, 589 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164589a0
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