Cotton in ancient Sudan and Nubia

Since Pliny the Elder described the “wool-bearing trees” of Aethiopia in his Natural History, the cultivation of cotton has been a well-known aspect of the textile production of ancient Sudan. It was confirmed during the first decades of Sudanese archaeology by the discovery of many cotton textiles...

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Main Authors: Elsa Yvanez, Magdalena M. Wozniak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie 2019-06-01
Series:Revue d'ethnoécologie
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/4429