Wadi Muqaddam

Wadi Muqaddam is a dry water course some 320 km extending from beyond Omdurman north to the great bend of the Nile near Korti.[1] It gives its name to the geological Wadi Milk Formation. Delimiting the Bayuda Desert to the west it still flows during rainy seasons. Some scholars assume Wadi Muqaddam as a former channel of the White Nile.[2]: 274 

Archaeology

Mesolithic pottery and lithics (stone tools and their manufacturing debris) from the Holocene and the Middle Stone Age have been found in Wadi Muqaddam.[2]: 268 [3] In the north of the wadi there is the archaeological site of Al-Meragh.

References

  1. ^ Intisar Soghayroun, Elzein Soghayroun, Trade and Wadi Systems in Muslim Sudan, Kampala 2010, p.25.
  2. ^ a b D. Q. Fuller and L. Smith, The Prehistory of the Bayuda: New Evidence from the Wadi Muqaddam In: Kendall, T, (ed.) Nubian Studies 1998. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society of Nubian Studies, August 21–26, 1998. (pp. 265-281). Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston.
  3. ^ Hosfield, R.; White, K.; Drake, N. (2015). "Middle Stone Age and Early Holocene Archaeology in Central Sudan: The Wadi Muqadam Geoarchaeological Survey". Sudan & Nubia. 19: 16–29.