Qasr Ibrim

John Alexander studied history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, after which he became a teacher in the Sudan Education Service. He later retrained as a prehistorian at the Institute of Archaeology, London, and again at Pembroke College, which also awarded his PhD in 1958. He held various teaching positions in the UK, Ghana and the Sudan, and from 1980 to 1986 was co-director of the EES mission at Qasr Ibrim. He helped to found the Sudan Archaeological Research Society and served on the executive committees of the EES and the British Council of Archaeology. John Alexander died in 2010. William Y. Adams was educated at the Universities of California and Arizona, receiving his PhD from the latter institution in 1958. After early research in American Indian ethnography he turned his attention to salvage archaeology, directing river valley excavations in the United States and then along the Nile in the Sudan and Egypt. From 1959 to 1966, he was Director of Excavations in Nubia for the Sudanese government, and from 1972 to 1982 directed EES excavations at Qasr Ibrim. At the same time he served as Professor of Anthopology at the University of Kentucky, until his retirement in 1992.

Editorial foreword
Part I: the historical record
Preface to Part I
The geographical and political context of Qasr Ibrim
Lower Nubia before 1961: ethnographic, archaeological, and documentary evidence
Prelude to the occupation of Qasr Ibrim and the annexation of Lower Nubia, 1517–60
The history of Ottoman activities at the site
The cultural identity of the Ottoman garrison
Afterthoughts
Part II: the architectural record
Preface to Part II
The urban setting
The earliest datable Ottoman remains (‘Level B1’)
Later and undatable archaeological remains
Archaeological history
Part III: The artefacts
Summary notes on the Ottoman artifacts
Summary notes on the pottery
The basketry
The textiles
Concordance
Bibliography