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      Of Kings and Horses: Two New Horse Skeletons from the Royal Cemetery at el-Kurru, Sudan

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      Archaeology International
      UCL Press
      Sudan, Nile valley, el-Kurru, Kushite, horse burials, Shebitqo

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          This article presents the zooarchaeological evidence from two horse burials at the royal cemetery of el-Kurru, Sudan. The skeletons, whose survival after excavation was unknown, were recently rediscovered in storage in the Sudan National Museum. The article outlines the archaeological context of these specimens, their importance for research on equids in the ancient Nile valley and the first results of their zooarchaeological analysis.

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              Symbolic equids and Kushite state formation: a horse burial at Tombos

              The recent discovery of a well-preserved horse burial at the Third Cataract site of Tombos illuminates the social significance of equids in the Nile Valley. The accompanying funerary assemblage includes one of the earliest securely dated pieces of iron in Africa. The Third Intermediate Period (1050–728 BC) saw the development of the Nubian Kushite state beyond the southern border of Egypt. Analysis of the mortuary and osteological evidence suggests that horses represented symbols of a larger social, political and economic movement, and that the horse gained symbolic meaning in the Nile Valley prior to its adoption by the Kushite elite. This new discovery has important implications for the study of the early Kushite state and the formation of Kushite social identity.
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                Journal
                ai
                Archaeology International
                UCL Press (UK )
                2048-4194
                30 December 2020
                : 23
                : 1
                : 122-137
                Affiliations
                [1] 1UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK
                [2] 2Alumna UCL, UK
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8047-0878
                Article
                10.14324/111.444.ai.2020.10
                98c62882-a680-449f-be3b-947012a7e60d
                Copyright © 2020, Claudia Näser and Giulia Mazzetti

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                Figures: 6, Tables: 1, References: 41, Pages: 17
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                Archaeology,Cultural studies
                Shebitqo,Sudan,Nile valley,el-Kurru,Kushite,horse burials
                Archaeology, Cultural studies
                Shebitqo, Sudan, Nile valley, el-Kurru, Kushite, horse burials

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