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Jebel Moya: new excavations at the largest pastoral burial cemetery in sub-Saharan Africa—CORRIGENDUM

Jebel Moya is the largest-known pastoral cemetery in sub-Saharan Africa. Located 240km south-south-east of Khartoum, Sudan, it was excavated from 1911–1914 by Henry Wellcome, the founder of the Wellcome Trust. It is a multi-phase site with deposits dating back to c. 5000 BC. At 10ha in size and having yielded more than 3100 human burials, Jebel Moya provides scope for exploring the interactions between local pastoral and external traditions on the southern boundary of the contemporaneousMeroitic state, outside of direct Meroitic political control (Brass 2015, 2016). In October 2017, the University College London-University of Khartoum-National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums expedition to southern Gezira undertook new excavations. A key aim was to perform modern, targeted sampling and recording, and archaeobotanical, artefactual, archaeozoological and osteoarchaeological analyses—including ancient DNA (aDNA), isotopes and AMS dating. Five trenches were excavated to sample surviving archaeological deposits systematically (Figure 1). Trenches 1, 2 and 4 were excavated in 100mm spits and the stratigraphy recorded. Each spit was sampled for archaeobotanical remains. Trench 3 targeted the excavation of an eroding burial (see below).