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Butana Group

4000 BC – 2600 BC
CultureAfrica

A Neolithic archaeological culture of the Butana region of eastern Sudan (between the Nile, Atbara and Blue Nile), known mainly from decorated pottery, stone tools, and small round-hut settlements; subsistence combined animal herding with some domesticated wheat and barley plus hunting and shellfish gathering.

Fades from the archaeological record in the early 3rd millennium BC; no named political successor documented in current scholarship.

Borders in 4000 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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