Power Relations and the Adoption of Foreign Material Culture: A Different Perspective from First-Millennium BCE Nubia
Questions of power relations have long been central to archaeological study of culture contact, with colonial relationships exciting particular interest. However, current frameworks do not account for the adoption of foreign material culture by cultures that are politically stronger than those from which they adopt. The wide variety of Egyptian material culture forms on display…
Egyptology and Anthropology: Historiography, Theoretical Exchange, and Conceptual Development
Sudanic Statecraft? Political Organization in the Early Napatan Period
The Piankhy Victory Stela contains several anomalies that have caused interpretive problems for Egyptologists. These difficulties stem from the assumption, inspired by the Egyptian appearance of their monuments, that the early 25th Dynasty kings were attempting to rule in the same way as traditional Egyptian kings. This paper argues that by utilizing the segmentary state model…