Revisiting the mysterious dark sediments in the context of Mesolithic occupation in central Sudan

Abstract

The paper presents the results of pedochemical analyses and micromorphological study of black sediments uncovered at large in the area of the Rocky Cities in the north-western foot-zone of Jebel Sabaloka (West Bank) near the Sixth Nile Cataract in central Sudan and offers interpretation of these sediments in the context of Mesolithic occupation in central Sudan.

Keywords

• Sudan
• Mesolithic
• Jebel Sabaloka
• black sediments
• post-depositional processes
• pedochemistry
• micromorphology