Amara West

Project team and acknowledgements

The research at Amara West would not be possible without the permission and support of the National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums (Sudan), particularly the director Hassan Hussein Idris and the director of fieldwork, Salah Mohamed Ahmed.

In the field, our inspector Shadia Abdu Rabo is an integral part of the team.

Supporters

The project is generously funded by the following institutions:

• The Leverhulme Trust (2010-2013)
  Health and diet in occupied Nubia through political and climate change
• British Academy (2009-2010)
  Migration and Ethnic Identity in Egyptian Nubia
• Fondation Schiff Giorgini (2010)
• British Museum (2008-2011).

Field team

• Shadia Abdu Rabo (2008-2011), inspector and archaeologist
• Stephanie Aulsebrook (2009), archaeologist
• Michaela Binder (2009-2011, archaeologist and physical anthropologist
• Jeremy Clutterbunk (2010), zoologist
• Mat Dalton (2010-2011), archaeologist
• Karis Eklund (2008), surveyor assistant
• Rose Ferraby (2010), magnetometry survey
• Sophie Hay (2008, 2010), magnetometry survey
• Rene Kertesz (2009, 2010), archaeologist
• Nicole Lorenz (2010), archaeologist
• Thomas Lyons (2011), archaeologist
• Marie Millet (2009-2011), ceramicist
• Leonie Pett (2008), magnetometry survey
• Dyan Semple (2011), physical anthropologist
• Mary Shepperson (2009-2010), archaeologist
• Neal Spencer (2008–2011), director, archaeologist
• Nicholas Soderbergh (2009), archaeologist
• Carina Summerfield-Hill (2011), physical anthropologist
• Charlotte Vallance (2010-2011), archaeologist
• An Van Camp (2009), archaeologist
• Marie Vandenbeusch (2011), finds registrar
• Elsa Yvanez (2010), archaeologist and seal impressions
• Up to 40 local workmen each year

Scientific analysis

Scientific analysis in the Department of Conservation & Scientific Research at the British Museum are undertaken by Caroline Cartwright and Philippa Ryan (botany), Rebecca Stacey and Thibaut Deviese (residue analyses) and Michela Spataro (ceramic petrography and analyses).

Collaborating institutions

A key part of the research is undertaken by specialists at several collaborating institutions.

• Sophie Hay, Leonie Pett and Rose Ferraby, British School at Rome/Archaeological Prospection Services (University of Southampton) for magnetometry survey in 2008 and 2010
• Mark Macklin (University of Aberystwyth) and Jamie Woodward (University of Manchester), on river geomorphology (2009-2013)
• Michele Buzon (Purdue University), for strontium isotope analyses of skeletal samples
• Stuart Tyson Smith (University of California-Santa Barbera), for NAA analyses of ceramic samples.

Volunteers

A generous amount of post-excavation work is undertaken by volunteers in the British Museum’s Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan.

• Justine Benanty (2010)
• Renate Fellinger (2009)
• Katherine Felstead (2010)
• Loretta Kilroe (2011)
• Min-Soo Kwak (2009)
• Nicolas Monte (2008)
• Sophie Peckel (2010)
• Atena Ungeraneau (2009)
• Marie Vandenbeusch (2010)