Human Stones from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

Made:: 5000-1 BCE in Jebel Moya

4 human urinary calculi from prehistoric cemetery of Gebel-Moya, Sudan, from a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A631395

Materials:: calcium, calcareous concretions

Measurements:: maximum: diameter 35 mm
minimum: diameter 18 mm

type:: human remains and calculi

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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Human Stones from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

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