Travels between the years 1765 and 1773 through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia into Abyssinia

Bruce, James

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“…An easy enough explanation exists for this state of affairs: as most of the osteological material for study is composed of postconsumption remains, it is entirely understandable why it contains no bones of horses. A critical review of sources on the history of the horse in Nubia demonstrates that the animals were first introduced into the Middle Nile Valley to be bred there in late medieval times and enjoyed the greatest popularity in postmedieval times (Bruce, 1790; Burckhardt, 1819). The slight evidence for horses coming from the earlier periods suggests that they were known, especially to the political and military elite, but there is nothing to validate the idea of advanced and developed horse breeding in Nubia in antiquity.…”

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“…Since then, cattle have been imported massively from Asia because of its optimal behavioural and physiological conditions. (Bruce, 1790;Burckhardt, 1819). The slight evidence for horses coming from the earlier periods suggests that they were known, especially to the political and military elite, but there is nothing to validate the idea of advanced and developed horse breeding in Nubia in antiquity.…”

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“…T A B L E 3 Sex of livestock (cattle, dromedary and sheep) from osteological materials. Old Dongola 16th-17th centuries Valley (Bruce, 1790;Burckhardt, 1819). It is also possible to trace the growing importance of cavalry, starting from the decline of the Christian Nubian kingdoms and peaking during the Funj period (Crawford, 1951).…”

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First data on animal exploitation in Funj Sultanate, Kingdom of Dongola, Sudan (16th–17th centuries)

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Godlewski

2020

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The scientific importance of the archaeozoological study of 16th-to 17th-century faunal materials from Old Dongola in Sudan cannot be overstated in view of it being the only regular project of its kind on postmedieval material from Sudan to date. The results highlight the dynamics of the sociopolitical transformation taking place at this time. From the point of view of the economy, domestic cattle were the most important species, and there are certain indications in favour of long-distance trade following mainly a north-south vector and taking advantage of the old early Makurian forts. The archaeozoological data reflect the presence of large homogeneous populations of short-horned cattle resembling the varieties kept in Meroitic times. Small ruminants held an important place in local consumption patterns; and new species, the camel and the domestic chicken, gained a place for themselves in this period. A much more extensive use of wild game-birds, reptiles and species of catfish-also distinguished the economy of 16th-to 17th-century Dongola.

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First data on animal exploitation in Funj Sultanate, Kingdom of Dongola, Sudan (16th–17th centuries)

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Godlewski

2020

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…61 James Bruce, a Scottish wine merchant, Mediterranean traveller and briefly consul to Algiers in the mid-1760s, voiced similar sentiments in the famous travelogue he composed in the late 1760s. 62 Written decades before Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire made it fashionable to denounce the Germanic peoples as barbaric, these works contributed to British scholars' evolving understanding of their own connection to the Roman Empire and its Germanic successors. 63 It is indeed possible that the Kabyle inhabitants of the Aurès Mountains were affected by Vandal presence in the fifth century (something which is difficult to assess due to the highly fragmentary archaeological and historical record of the Vandal conquest).…”

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Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)

Effros¹

2017

Br J Hist Sci

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Following the conquest of Algiers and its surrounding territory by the French army in 1830, officers noted an abundance of standing stones in this region of North Africa. Although they attracted considerably less attention among their cohort than more familiar Roman monuments such as triumphal arches and bridges, these prehistoric remains were similar to formations found in Brittany and other parts of France. The first effort to document these remains occurred in 1863, when Laurent-Charles Féraud, a French army interpreter, recorded thousands of dolmens and stone formations south-west of Constantine. Alleging that these constructions were Gallic, Féraud hypothesized the close affinity of the French, who claimed descent from the ancient Gauls, with the early inhabitants of North Africa. After Féraud's claims met with scepticism among many prehistorians, French scholars argued that these remains were constructed by the ancestors of the Berbers (Kabyles in contemporary parlance), whom they hypothesized had been dominated by a blond race of European origin. Using craniometric statistics of human remains found in the vicinity of the standing stones to propose a genealogy of the Kabyles, French administrators in Algeria thereafter suggested that their mixed origins allowed them to adapt more easily than the Arab population to French colonial governance. This case study at the intersection of prehistoric archaeology, ancient history and craniology exposes how genealogical (and racial) classification made signal contributions to French colonial ideology and policy between the 1860s and 1880s.

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“…(Rafeq, 1990: 103-114), ayrıca bkz. : 217-249, Holt, 1962: 38-51, Marsot, 1990 3 (Bruce, 1799(Bruce, , 1804 4 (Volney, 1805 c.1) 5 (Shaw,1962a(Shaw, ,1962b(Shaw, ,1963 6 (BOA, A. DVNS. MSR.…”

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Mısır’da asi bir Memlük: Bulutkapan Ali Bey (El-Kebîr) (1768/69-1773)

Güner¹

2013

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi

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Bu makale 18. yüzyıl ortalarında, merkez-çevre ilişkileri çerçevesinde, Mısır'da bir Memlük beyinin yükseliş ve zevalini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bulutkapan Ali Bey (Ali Bey el-Kebir) (Ö. 1773)'in Mısır, Hicaz ve Suriye'de yarı otonom bir hükümet tesis etme mücadelesi, 1517 yılında Osmanlı Devleti'nin son verdiği Memlük Devleti'nin başarısız bir yeniden canlandırılması teşebbüsü olarak algılanabilir mi? Bu sorunun cevabı Osmanlı Mısır'ında Memlük hanelerinin durumuna ve özellikle de mezkûr yüzyılda önplana çıkmış Kazdağlı hanesine bakılmasını zorunlu kılmaktadır. Nitekim Bulutkapan Ali Bey Kafkasyalı bir köle olarak Kazdağlı hanesine intisap etmişti. Onun yükselişi, efendisi Đbrahim Kethüda'nın ölümünden sonra Memlük beyleri arasında başlayan mücadele döneminde gerçekleşmiştir. Diğer taraftan bu çalışma Kahire'deki Osmanlı valisinin iktidarının Memlük beylerince fiilen sınırlandırıldığına da iddia etmektedir. Dolayısıyla Bulutkapan Ali Bey'in yükselişi ve düşüşü, Osmanlı merkezi ve Memlük beylerinin ittifak ve çatışma gibi farklı yolları içeren politikalarıyla da belirlenir. Ayrıca Osmanlı-Rus savaşları sebebiyle Osmanlı merkezi Ali Bey'in nüfuzunu kurma sürecini engelleyemedi. Diğer taraftan onun iktidarına yine kendisi gibi bir Memlük olan Ebuzzeheb Mehmet Bey son verecekti.

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Travels between the years 1765 and 1773 through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia into Abyssinia

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First data on animal exploitation in Funj Sultanate, Kingdom of Dongola, Sudan (16th–17th centuries)

First data on animal exploitation in Funj Sultanate, Kingdom of Dongola, Sudan (16th–17th centuries)

Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)

Mısır’da asi bir Memlük: Bulutkapan Ali Bey (El-Kebîr) (1768/69-1773)

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