Landscape Archaeologies in Nubia and the Middle Nile

It is suggested that many landscape archaeology approaches have considerable potential to contribute to research in the large and environmentally varied region of the Middle Nile. Longer-term perspectives through the Holocene also require more specific engagements with major environmental as well as social transformations. A number of specific foci suggest themselves for further exploration. As in many other part of Africa exploring landscape histories in terms of their historical ecology seems likely to have much to offer. In a region with many millennia of pastoral traditions, studies of settlement may also be extended to consider landscapes of mobility and more varied understandings of space and place. The early development of larger-scale polities also invites more explicit investigation of landscapes of power and authority within the region.