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The Borderscape Project

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The Borderscape Project

The Borderscape Project investigates the impact of state formation on Egypt's southern border.

Funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (https://eeagrants.org/), through Polish National Science Centre, POLS Call 2020/37/K/HS3/04097. The Borderscape Project is a multidisciplinary endeavor that investigates how the rise of the Egyptian state at the end of the 4th millennium BCE impacted and transformed the socio-spatial landscape of the First Nile Cataract region. The process of state formation instigated profound changes in the socio-economic structure of ancient Egypt, the earliest territorial polity in human history, particularly at the newly established southern border. Instead of reifying the unification of the Pharaonic state as a dividing event between periods “before” and “after”, The Borderscape Project seeks to evaluate this process along a historical continuum aided by a wide variety of archaeological and geospatial data. The project has three goals: first, it seeks to reconstruct the ancient settlement landscape and understand patterns of growth, development, and abandonment; second, it seeks to understand how the natural landscape was used for economic, religious, and ritualistic purposes through reconstructing ancient patterns of land use, identifying connections and pathways between sites, and detecting moments of change or discontinuity; finally, the project will investigate the social landscape of the region, using archaeological data to identify how group identity or ethnicity was displayed both in Elephantine and the hinterlands of the First Cataract region. The Borderscape Project will evaluate how the Dynastic state dealt with the fluid identities and mobility of the populations in its borderlands compared to the earlier predynastic Period, and develop a new theoretical model for how this earliest example of a borderscape was shaped by rising centralized power. The BORDERSCAPE Project is funded by the Norway Grants Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 through the Polish National Science Centre-POLS Call (2020/37/K/HS3/04097).

22/12/2025

Happy Holidays!

From all of us to all of you!

12/12/2025

A special section, edited by our PI, Maria Carmela Gatto, and dedicated to ancient borderscapes, has been published in the latest issue of Etudes et Travaux. The contributions were first presented at a symposium organised to celebrate the end of our project and at the EAA conference in Rome in 2024, where a session on borderscapes was organised by our PI.
Congrats to the contributors!
Narodowe Centrum Nauki EEA and Norway Grants Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN Polska Akademia Nauk

📣We are pleased to inform you that the electronic version of the 38th volume of our journal, Études et Travaux, is already available (in Open Access model) on the journal’s website (http://www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue). The volume contains a special section devoted to the Ancient Borderscapes, as well as a number of regular papers.

The editors of Études et Travaux would like to remind you that proposals for the 39th volume (to be published in 2026) can be submitted until 31 March 2026.

Études et Travaux is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS and DOAJ, among others. It is published in print with colour illustrations and as an online Open Access journal, with the possibility of applying various Creative Commons licences to individual articles. Authors are not charged for the submission, peer-review and publication process.

08/10/2025

Watch out BORDER STUDIES people!!!!

LAST WEEK - deadline oct. 25, 2025
Call for papers – Fez Agenda for Border Studies II
International Conference - Fez, Morocco | 18-21 May 2026

Borders, Walls and Violence : Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

15/03/2025

Watch our PI's lecture at the Museo Egizio, Torino, on YouTube
Maria Carmela Gatto
Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
Polska Akademia Nauk
EEA and Norway Grants
Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Maria Carmela Gatto, Accademia Polacca delle Scienze

04/03/2025

23/12/2024

Wishing you the best of holidays!
Maria Carmela Gatto
Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
EEA and Norway Grants

23/10/2024

Aswan - Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP)
The Borderscape Project
Antonio Curci
Istituto Italiano di Cultura e Centro Archeologico Italiano - Il Cairo

**Lecture is available both in presence and Online
Sunday 27th of October - 17:00 PM - Italian Archeological Center - 14 Champollion street – Down Town – Midan El Tahrir

To confirm attendance in presence at the CAI https://forms.gle/CsPHdawbSgFtvSz99
Online attendance is available, through https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84387189419

02/10/2024

Just out!!
Great collaboration between The Borderscape Project and Aswan - Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP) PI Maria Carmela Gatto, the Technopregypt PI, Jade Bajeot, and Mary Ownby of Ownby Analytical, LLC

Aswan - Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP) Narodowe Centrum Nauki MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 EEA and Norway Grants Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN Polska Akademia Nauk Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà - Università di Bologna Antonio Curci

This article investigates the social landscape of the First Nile Cataract region in the 4th mill. BCE through the application of petrographic and technological approaches to pottery analysis. The study focuses on the ceramic assemblages from the settlement WK15 and the necropolis WK14 at Nag el-Qarm...

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