Osypinski Piotr

Osypinski Piotr
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Polish Academy of Sciences | PAN

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May 2021 - present
Polish Academy of Sciences
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Publications (32)
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Objectives This study presents biological affinities between the last hunter‐fisher‐gatherers and first food‐producing societies from the Nile Valley. We investigate odontometric and dental tissue proportion changes between these populations from the Middle Nile Valley and acknowledge the biological processes behind them. Materials and Methods Den...
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New fieldwork in Argi and Letti (Southern Dongola Reach) has produced unique data on early Holocene settlement and burial practices. New surveys, backed by GIS data, shed light on true forms and preservation of settlements dating from the Paleolithic to the Kerma periods, providing an absolute chronology as well as exciting future directions.
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Discoveries at Letti provide important data on the functioning and reach of one of the oldest African civilisations: the kingdom of Kerma (2500–1500 BC). Extensive surveys and preliminary excavations have recorded numerous settlement and funerary sites in the region. Our results help to expand the economic data and chronology.
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New research on early Holocene settlement and burial practices in the Southern Dongola Reach focused on the key areas of the Letti region, Argi (adjacent to Affad) and the outlets of Wadi el-Melik and Wadi Howar. The project follows up on ten years of investigations by the PalaeoAffad Project in the Affad region (Northern Province, Sudan). Unique d...
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The historical, zooarchaeological and isotopic data concerning cattle breeding and management in the medieval Middle Nile Valley are considered in this paper in the first such comprehensive research for the region. The main source of data are the nearly 10,300 animal remains. The archaeozoological analyses focused primarily on cattle morphology. St...
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The 5th millennium BC megalithic ceremonial complex at Wadi Khashab in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is located almost directly in the middle of the Eastern Desert, on a wadi trail connecting the Valley of the Nile with the Red Sea. The volume presents the results of three seasons of excavation of this site, which featured a human burial in the cente...
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Archaeological sites at Affad (Sudan) are the only ones in northeastern Africa providing ostological remains of both African aurochs (Bos primigenius), dated to 50 kya, and domestic cattle, dated to 7–6 kya. The evidence enables studies of behavioral diversity between taurids. Strontium isotope analyses of the tooth enamel of both Pleistocene and H...
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In this article we present data on the chronology of fluvial and aeolian sediments as well as ecofacts that allow us to indicate the timing of Middle Stone Age settlement in Affad on the Middle Nile. Previously published chronometric data based solely on (multi‐grain) OSL dates suggested the extremely late settlement and usage of MSA technology in...
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Exploration of the ancient transcontinental port of Berenice has enabled us to reveal some of the cultural roots of today’s societal bond with ‘commensals’; this bond included emotional ties with domesticated animals. The ‘pet cemetery’ at the port functioned from the mid-1st to mid-2nd century AD. The 585 unearthed burials were dominated by cats,...
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Current work on the PalaeoAffad Project allows us to contribute greatly to the legacy of prehistoric research in the Middle Nile Valley. This paper presents the state of research on Late Pleistocene settlement on both banks of the river. Based on absolute dates obtained in the Affad Basin (since MIS5 up to the 5th millennium BP), the prehistory of...
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The paper discusses funeral practices with regard to animals in ancient Berenike, investigated in two seasons of exploration, 2018 and 2019 (trenches BE18/19-107, BE01/19-48 and BE19/132). Three groups of animals are represented almost exclusively in the burials. These are cats, dogs and monkeys, buried mainly around the top and on what was the eas...
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The first Affad was the one we saw when the archaeological sites there were first investigated at the beginning of the century. The second Affad, which is the region that we have been exploring in the past 15 years, bore many signs of modern Sudanese culture encroaching upon the desert. In 2009, an asphalt road cut through the desert and shortly th...
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Animals were as inextricable a part as they were indicative of the system of common ancient Egyptian beliefs. Their special role was manifested in a rich iconography and in multitudes of animal mummies deposited in the major sacral complexes. Seen in this light, the cemetery of small animals of 1st–2nd century AD date, excavated since 2011 in the R...
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The Epipalaeolithic of the Levant witnessed important changes in subsistence behaviour, foreshadowing the transition to sedentism and cultivation, but much less is known of contemporary developments in the Middle Nile Valley. Here, Affad 23, a 16000-year-old settlement, on the margins of a resource-rich, multi-channel floodplain, offers exceptional...
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With the research on the issue in its initial phases, the behaviour and hunting strategies of MSA communities inhabiting the Nile Valley in the Late and Terminal Pleistocene have been fragmentarily recognised thus far. Osteological materials from the area of the Affad Basin in the Middle Nile Valley, recorded in archaeological contexts and dated to...
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Despite suggestions of cattle keepers being present in the Eastern Desert of Egypt before the end of the fifth millennium BC there is still no archaeological evidence concerning settlement patterns and relations to the cultures of the Nile and Western Desert. Archaeozoological datasets have also been lacking for ancient herding models and animal me...
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Notwithstanding the ample evidence and abundant hypotheses corroborating the crucial significance of the central part of the Nile Valley in the spread of early cultures of Anatomically Modern Humans, research on the prehistory of the region remains insufficient. Investigations at the complex of sites around Affad (Southern Dongola Reach, Sudan) has...
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Abstrakt Archaeological excavations carried out by Patrimonium Foundation at site Dąbrówka 9, com. Kowal, in 2009 provided a unique assemblage of a series of blades made on so-called chocolate flint. Refitting of blades permitted reconstruction of core reduction stages. However, there the question arises of what was the origin of the find – a purp...
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Draft report of 2 lithic assemblages analysis excavated by Sudan Archaeological Research Society in 2002. Early Holocene, 4th Cataract, Sudan.
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The paper presents the results of an archaeological ground survey aimed to record prehistoric settlement landscape in chosen parts of the Southern Dongola Reach (Tergis, Affad and El-Nafab districts). The project fills in the gaps in earlier research on the right bank of the Nile. Numerous new sites were recorded, all reflecting a frequently occupi...
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It is 'mission impossible' to present now a complete vision of the project area's prehistory. Studies upon many sites, collections and gathered data are still in progress and will be published over many years filling empty pages of a book, that we could title 'The Prehis-tory of the Fourth Cataract'. Today it is possible how-ever to define the list...
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The results of preliminary excavations at palaeolithic site Affad 23 have been presented at the symposium Archaeology of the Earliest Northeastern Africa, Poznan in 2003 and later on during some other occasions. It was pub-lished in the final form in 2011 (Osypiński, Osypińska, Gautier 2011). One of the works impact was initiating a new research pr...
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Salvage excavations in Jordanowo (site 7), Świebodzin district (Fig. 1), necessitated by the S-3 express road construction project, were conducted between September 2007 and 30 June 2008 by a team headed by P. Osypiński from the Poznań Patrimonium Foundation (commissioned by the Archaeological Foundation in Zielona Góra) (Jordanowo... 2010). An are...
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Affad 23, situated in upper alluvial deposits related to a former channel of the Nile in the Affad District, Southern Dongola Reach, Sudan, is mainly known through its up-per or surface level. The combined data concerning the position of the site, composition of the lithic assemblage, freshness, refittings and dispersion of the artefacts point to a...
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The archaeological survey of the region between El-Ar (Shemkhiya) and El-Gamamiya, conducted under the auspices of the PCMA (see above, report by B. Żurawski in this volume), took place between 19 November and 4 December 2007.1 The actual survey was carried out by sub-teams: El-Ar 1–12 and Umm Saffaya 19–30 — M. Chłodnicki, A. Longa; El-Ar 15–24 an...
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Survey and testing in the El-Gamamiya district on the Fourth Cataract continued for another season (see above, report by M. Chłodnicki et alii in this volume), including sites like a Christian church (GM101) and a rock art gallery with images of common longhorn cattle as well as a “pastoral parade” and hunting scenes (GM67). The main focus, however...
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Another season of rescue excavations as part of the MSDAP project to the Fourth Cataract was carried out in the Polish concession from mid January through the end of February 2007 by a team from the PATRIMONIUM Foundation.1 The chief objective of the season was finishing the excavation of the post-Meroitic cemetery of El-Sadda 1 (Osypiński 2007), w...

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