The Butana Group was a prehistoric, neolithic culture in the eastern part of modern Sudan, that flourished from the fourth to the early third millennium BC.
[1] The Butana Group is mainly known from its pottery that is often decorated with incised lines, including fingerprints.
The ceramic is comparable to those from other (late) neolithic culture in the Sudanese Nile Valley.
The main economical base was most likely animal breeding, but there is also evidence for domesticated forms of wheat and barley, attesting agriculture.
The people of the Butana Group lived in small, round huts.