Palaeodemography and palaeopathology of Khartoum Mesolithic skeletal remains from Jebel Sabaloka in central Sudan: first insights from the site of Sphinx

Abstract

The paper presents the first findings of anthropological analyses of Early Khartoum (Khartoum Mesolithic) of the skeletal remains of hunter-fisher-gatherers uncovered at the site of Sphinx in the western part of Jebel Sabaloka in central Sudan. Attention is paid to the demographic structure and health state of the population buried at the site.

Keywords

• Africa
• Sudan
• Nile Valley
• early Holocene
• Early Khartoum culture
• Mesolithic
• hunter-gatherers
• human burials
• health state
• palaeodemography
• palaeopathology