ABSTRACT
For areas west of the Nile, our knowledge is still largely confined to the Wadi Howar. In the fifth and fourth millennia BC, settlement seems to have been concentrated in the Lower Wadi Howar, continuing occupation of the stabilized dunes along its margins. Pottery with a ‘herringbone’ style, broadly dated to the fourth millennium, and possibly later, seems to relate to contemporary riverine traditions (Keding 1997, 2000). Some finds from the area appear similar to Late Neolithic/pre-Kerma material from the northern Dongola Reach. However, such links seem to have been fading by the third millennium BC.
