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1940.12.836.3

Animal bone: rib, possibly ox. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/11/2017]

1940.12.836.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Animal bone: rib, possibly ox. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/11/2017]
Long description
Section of a dark coloured, robust bone, possibly an ox's rib. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/11/2017]
Geographical reference
Sudan, Republic of
Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of
Kordofan Faragab
Person
Field collector Charles Gabriel Seligman
Field collector Brenda Zara Seligman
PRM source Charles Gabriel Seligman
PRM source Brenda Zara Seligman
Date
Date collected
9th - 11th February 1912
Acquisition information
Donated: 1940
Materials and processes
Material Cattle Bone Animal
Dimensions
Length: max 133 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Depth: max 20 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1940.12.836.3
Research and responses

The Seligmans appear to have excavated a mound 1 mile northwest of Faragab village between 9th and 11th February 1912; details of this are recorded in Charles Seligman's journal (London School of Economics Library Archives file 1/4/1) and Brenda Seligman's journal (File 1/4/5). Charles comments that "The mounds are not high probably 9-12 feet, between them the ground is flat but often covered c debris of bone + fragments of foreign stone + ostrich shell (?) discs, all these also found on slopes of mounds so that it is clear that denudation is going on tolerably briskly. From 8 to 10 feet below surface (about) sand is found which is apparently virgin, above this for a foot or two there is comparatively little foreign matter though always traces of charcoal + a few sherds + bone fragments. After then deposit becomes darker + contains masses of bones + sherds, many of both bearing marks of fire. ... Clearly from the finds the people who left their remains 2 to 5 feet below surface had a flourishing bone industry + made bone + perhaps ivory ornaments" [FL 7/9/2004].

Entries [1940.12.757 .1 - 17] are also from Faragab and it is a site in Kordofan, Sudan. [CF 10/5/2000].

Associated publications
Seligman, C.G. 1914-16. A Prehistoric Site in Northern Kordofan. Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 7, 107-114. [AS 02/09/2009]

Search terms: Animalia, Animal Part, Bone

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