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تتناول هذه الورقة السمات الحضارية المشتركة للعصر الحجري الحديث بين شمال السودان ومصر والخصائص المميزة لظهور تلك الفترة في كل منهما، والذي يتمثل في ظهور المستوطنات البشرية الدائمة والشبه دائمة، بالإضافة لظهور بعض الأدوات المميزة لتلك الفترة، ودور تلك المواقع في مصر في نشأة أعظم حضارة عرفتها البشرية، وفي السودان تميزت فترة العصر الحجري الحديث بالانتشار الواسع في أنحاء السودان المختلفة، حيث عرف العصر الحجري الحديث في السودان بالمستوطنات المستقرة إلى حد ما والتي استغلت الاقتصاد المستقر وصنعت الفخار، ونلاحظ من خلال البحث أن استخدام مصطلح العصر الحجري الحديث بسماته على المواقع الأثرية قد واجه عددا من الاعتراضات لدى البعض، ويتضح أن تنوع مواقع العصور الحجرية في السودان وخاصة العصر الحجري الحديث في شمال السودان يجعلنا ندرك أهمية ربط تلك بالمواقع المكتشفة في مصر، والتي تبرز روابط ثقافية وتقنية مشتركة بينها وبين مواقع شمال السودان، ولمزيد من فهم العصر الحجري الحديث في شمال السودان، يلزم ذلك فهم العصر الحجري الحديث في مصر، والذي يعد من أهم أهداف علم الآثار.

This paper attempts to reconstruct the history of the domestic pig in the Nile Valley. It looks into the available archaeological evidence, historical records and the practices of traditional societies in this part of the African continent. The paper also examines the distribution pattern of this animal in the southern parts of the Nile Valley and the factors that participated in its geographical spread in this region. The paper also casts light on the traditional areas of pig raising in the Sudan and suggests how this animal was first introduced into these areas in the past, Finally, it explores the role of the cultural and economic factors and Islamic teachings in shaping the geographical distribution of this animal in this part of Africa.

Fieldwork in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan, has investigated Late Neolithic settlement patterns and their implications for social and economic relationships in the sixth millennium cal. BC. While survey has detected only one village site occupied during the Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic, the subsequent centuries are characterized by a dispersed settlement pattern of hamlets and farmsteads. Some aspects of material culture show that these small settlements shared concepts of architecture, pottery and lithics with sites over a broad region in the central Levant, including characteristics of the \"Wadi Rabah culture.\" Yet significant differences among sites, even within the small territory of Wadi Ziqlab suggest differences in the scale of work groups and learning networks as neighbours interacted in regional social networks. In a previous paper (Banning 2001), one of us hypothesized that PPNB aggregated settlement gave way, in the Yarmoukian or later, to a dendritic settlement pattern in Wadi Ziqlab, a valley that drains part of the northern Ajlun mountains into the Jordan Valley. Our subsequent research to test this hypothesis has uncovered more evidence for small Late Neolithic sites in that region, permitting us to begin to explore some of the implications of such a change (Banning et al. 2005, n.d). These are profound. We might expect that the smaller social units occupying farmsteads, rather than large villages, would need to maintain social and economic relationships with other units. There would be impacts on the exchange of goods and information, and on the environment in which agents learned technology and styles. This paper outlines some of our preliminary results and programme for continuing research into the social, economic, and technological interactions among small Late Neolithic sites in Wadi Ziqlab and its neighbourhood.