This book features easy access and cross-listing of multiple themes and topics related to the prehistory and ancient times in Nubia, Kerma, Kush, or Meroe until the end of the Meroitic and post-Meroitic times in the 4th and 5th centuries CE.

Richard A. Lobban, Jr. is a professional Africanist anthropologist (BS, Biology, Bucknell; MA, Anthropology, Temple; PhD, Anthropology, Northwestern). His MA on Oshogbo Yoruba has made him an 'official' Yoruba Elder. His doctoral research from 1970-1972 was on modern Mahas Nubians in Sudan. In 1981 he was a co-founder and first President of the Sudan Studies Association. Dr. Lobban has worked and published in all fields of holistic anthropology including the social anthropology and the ethnography of Sudan; physical anthropology of human and animal remains; linguistics of ancient and modern Nubian languages and, archaeology with active Meroitic field excavations at Musawwarat es-Sufra and Abu Erteila.

Editor's Foreword Jon Woronoff

Acknowledgements

Preface

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Chronology

Introduction

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THE DICTIONARY

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