A largely accepted paradigm in African recent prehistory considers pastoralism to be the main subsistence source of food-producing communities along the Sudanese Nile valley from the 6th millennium cal BC onwards. This paradigm is constraining the development of a wider theoretical perspective that assumes, instead, a regionally differentiated picture of the economic and social organisation of local communities in northeastern Africa. This paradigm is thus the strongest impediment to achieving reliable and convincing syntheses of the transition from food collection to food production in this area. New data from Upper Nubia and central Sudan open the way for different and more complex scenarios and a new understanding of the local transition from agro-pastoral to agricultural practices. A more systematic data-based approach helps to change radically our perception of different Neolithic trajectories. Moreover, it helps to place in a different perspective—based on various levels of identity formation processes—change and continuity along the chrono-cultural sequence, as well as the different meanings that each local group confers on apparently similar acts in the context of the funerary ideology.

在非洲最近的史前时期，一个被广泛接受的范例认为，从公元前6世纪开始，牧民是苏丹尼罗河谷沿岸粮食生产社区的主要生存来源。这种范式限制了更广阔的理论视角的发展，该理论视角假设是东北非洲当地社区的经济和社会组织的区域差异图。因此，该范例是该地区实现从粮食收集到粮食生产过渡的可靠且令人信服的综合的最大障碍。来自上努比亚和苏丹中部的新数据为不同和更复杂的情况开辟了道路，并对当地从农牧业向农业实践的转变有了新的认识。更系统的数据-基于方法的方法有助于从根本上改变我们对不同新石器时代轨迹的看法。此外，它有助于以不同的视角（基于身份形成过程的各个层次）沿时间文化顺序的变化和连续性，以及每个地方群体在“环境”背景下赋予明显相似行为的不同含义。丧葬思想。