Wadi Muqaddam Explained

Wadi Muqaddam is a dry water course some 320 km extending from beyond Omdurman north to the great bend of the Nile near Korti.^[1] It gives its name to the geological Wadi Milk Formation. Delimiting the Bayuda Desert to the west it still flows during rainy seasons. Some scholars assume Wadi Muqaddam as a former channel of the White Nile.^[2]

Archaeology

Mesolithic pottery and lithics (stone tools and their manufacturing debris) from the Holocene and the Middle Stone Age have been found in Wadi Muqaddam.^[3] In the north of the wadi there is the archaeological site of Al-Meragh.

Notes and References

1. Intisar Soghayroun, Elzein Soghayroun, Trade and Wadi Systems in Muslim Sudan, Kampala 2010, p.25.
2. D. Q. Fuller and L. Smith, The Prehistory of the Bayuda: New Evidence from the Wadi Muqaddam In: Kendall, T, (ed.) Nubian Studies 1998. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society of Nubian Studies, August 21–26, 1998. (pp. 265-281). Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston.
3. Hosfield . R. . White . K. . Drake . N. . 2015 . Middle Stone Age and Early Holocene Archaeology in Central Sudan: The Wadi Muqadam Geoarchaeological Survey . Sudan & Nubia . 19 . 16–29.