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.
Covers the Neolithic cultural sequence of central/eastern Sudan, including the Butana region.
Continental survey with coverage of the Sudanese Neolithic groups.