Prehistoric, neolithic culture in the eastern part of Sudan
The Butana Group was a prehistoric, neolithic culture in the eastern part of modern Sudan, that flourished from the fourth to the early third millennium BC.[1]
The Butana Group is mainly known from its pottery that is often decorated with incised lines, including fingerprints. The ceramic is comparable to those from other (late) neolithic culture in the Sudanese Nile Valley.[2] They produced stone tools. The main economical base was most likely animal breeding, but there is also evidence for domesticated forms of wheat and barley, attesting agriculture. Several animals were hunted such as antelopes, suidae and elephants. Shell middens indicate the extensive use of land snails for food.[3]
Not much is known about settlement patterns, but some settlement sites are almost 10 hectares (25 acres) in area, indicating longer occupations. The people of the Butana Group lived in small, round huts. Not many cemeteries are known, but people were most often buried in a contracted position. The only grave goods are personal adornments, including many lip plugs.[4]
The ButanaGroup was a prehistoric, neolithic culture in the eastern part of modern Sudan, that flourished from the fourth to the early third millennium...
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Red Sea as Red Sea shells show. A ceramic-bearing culture known as the ButanaGroup preceded the Gash culture. At Mahal Teglinos (at Kassala, eastern Sudan)...
Sorghum and Pearl Millet across Africa and into India: a View from the ButanaGroup of the Far Eastern Sahel". African Archaeological Review. 35 (4): 483–505...
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Sudan, dating from 3500 to 3000 BC, and is associated with the neolithic ButanaGroup culture. Sorghum bread from graves in Predynastic Egypt, some 5,100 years...
Sorghum and Pearl Millet across Africa and into India: a View from the ButanaGroup of the Far Eastern Sahel". The African Archaeological Review. 35 (4):...
BC Eastern Sudan: Spikelet Morphology from Ceramic Impressions of the ButanaGroup". Current Anthropology. 58 (5): 673–683. doi:10.1086/693898. S2CID 149402650...
BC Eastern Sudan: Spikelet Morphology from Ceramic Impressions of the ButanaGroup" (PDF). Current Anthropology. 58 (5): 673–683. doi:10.1086/693898. S2CID 149402650...
Sorghum and Pearl Millet across Africa and into India: a View from the ButanaGroup of the Far Eastern Sahel". African Archaeological Review. 35 (4). Springer...
whose first mention dates to the 10th century BC. In eastern Sudan, the ButanaGroup appears around 4000 BC. These people produced simple decorated pottery...
interrelated movements. Southwards migrations result in emergence of the ButanaGroup circa 4000 BC. Potential time of Osiris figure existing circa 4100 BC...
area of Atbara River (eastern Sudan). These were associated with the ButanaGroup pottery, and dated to 3500–3000 BC. This area is only about 300km (200...
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Nile with grain harvesting and cattle herding. In eastern Sudan, the ButanaGroup appeared around 4000 BCE. Not much is known about settlement patterns...
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immemorial. Hafirs were an important feature of the Meroitic civilization in the Butana and were often built in the immediate vicinity of temples, for example the...
throughout Gezira State and access to other major cities in the fertile Butana region, including El-Gadarif, Kosti, and Sennar, making it difficult for...
have been recorded there. Lying between the Nile and the Atbara was the Butana, grassland suitable for livestock. Along the Atbara and the adjacent Gash...
previously have lived around Merowe but in recent centuries have settled in the Butana region between the Atbara River and the Blue Nile. Towns where the Shukria...
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and 15th centuries Bedouin tribes overran most of Sudan, migrating to the Butana, the Gezira, Kordofan and Darfur. In 1365 a civil war forced the Makurian...
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were defeated by the Funj Sultanate in 1504 and thereafter ruled over the Butana as vassals until the Egyptian conquest of 1820.: 10 Abdallah Jamma’a, the...
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