Site & Context
- Country / Region
- Sudan
- Site Name
- Ghazali
- Cemetery / Specific Area
- Cemetery 4
- Grave / Feature
- Ghz-4-008
- Relative Time Period
- Makurian
- Latitude (DDM)
- 18.441944
- Longitude (DDM)
- 31.931389
- Elevation (m)
- 281
Material & Specimen
- Material Type
- Human
- Material Specified
- Tooth enamel / Bone
- Bone Element
- —
- Element Side
- —
Individual Profile
- Individual Detail
- Ghz-4-008.1
- Sex / Species
- Male
- Age (Text)
- 20-35
- Age Category
- YA/MA
- Burial Type
- BG
Dentition
- Tooth Number
- —
- Tooth Side
- —
- Tooth Arch
- —
- Dental Code Abbrev.
- —
- Permanent Dentition Code
- —
- Deciduous Dentition Code
- —
- Dental Code System
- —
Radiocarbon Dating
- ¹⁴C Material
- —
- ¹⁴C BP
- —
- ¹⁴C Cal 95%
- 774 (95.4%) 886 cal AD
- ¹⁴C Lab Name
- Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU); University of Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
- ¹⁴C Lab ID
- —
- pMC
- —
- C Amount
- —
Oxygen & Carbon Isotopes
- δ¹⁸O (carb, VPDB) ‰
- —
- δ¹⁸O (carb, VSMOW) ‰
- —
- δ¹⁸O (phos, VSMOW) ‰
- —
- δ¹⁸O (drinking water) ‰
- —
- δ¹³C (enamel apatite, VPDB) ‰
- —
- δ¹³C (bone apatite, VPDB) ‰
- —
Strontium & Chemistry
- ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr
- —
- Concentration Index (CI)
- —
- Calcium (mg/L)
- —
- Strontium (mg/L)
- —
Collagen & Composition
- δ¹³C (collagen) ‰
- -14.26
- δ¹⁵N (collagen) ‰
- 12.03
- %C
- —
- %N
- —
- C/N Ratio
- 3.2
- Collagen Yield (%)
- 10.2
Record Metadata
- Source
- Ciesielska, J. A., Stark, R. J., Ob?uski, A., Boivin, N., Lucas, M., Le Roux, P., & Roberts, P. (2023). Multi-isotopic investigation of population dynamics and mobility among rural Medieval Christian communities at Ghazali, Northern Sudan. Journal of African Archaeology, 21(2), 131-153; Ciesielska, J. A., Stark, R. J., Ob?uski, A., Boivin, N., & Roberts, P. (2021). Multi-isotope analysis of dietary variation among the early Christian communities of northern Sudan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, 103016.
- Created By
- System
- Updated By
- —
- Created At
- 16 Dec 2025, 18:18 UTC
- Updated At
- 16 Dec 2025, 18:18 UTC
- Record ID
- 114