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This catalogue for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis and the Delta were contributed by leading scholars in the field. The catalogue features 129 Predynastic and Early Dynastic objects, most from the Oriental Institute's collection, that illustrate the environmental setting, Predynastic and Early Dynastic culture, religion and the royal burials at Abydos. This volume will be a standard reference and a staple for classroom use.
This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic Period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (ca. 3500-1650 BC).
This volume contains the collected papers from the international colloquium on early Egypt held at the British Museum in July 1993. It includes contributions on the interpretation of excavated material from various sites, some of which allow comparisons of Predynastic funerary practices in Upper and Lower Egypt, whilst others focus on the development of major cult centres. Material from excavated contexts has been reassessed and analyzed by modern techniques to allow the presentation of new conclusions on chronology, material culture, administration and trade in early Egypt.
This book presents a history of ancient Egyptian kingship. It examines the basis of kingship and its legitimacy.
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'The Dawn of Egyptian Art' on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from April 10 to August 5, 2012"--T.p. verso.
This volume, publishing the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt (London, 2008), presents the results of the latest research and discoveries in the field which are leading to a better understanding of the origins of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. It contains 54 contributions by 67 authors hailing from around the globe. The articles are organised under ten major themes: Settlement archaeology, mortuary archaeology, object studies, technology of pottery and lithic production, early temples, interaction north and south, chronological investigations, potmark research, script as material culture and theoretical approaches. Each contribution provides new insights into the variety of factors contributing to the rise of the distinct form of the early Egyptian state. Recent discoveries from major sites such as Hierakonpolis, Abydos, and Tell el Farkha, amongst others, are also discussed in detail.
An analytical bibliography that contains 7407 references, covering the Egyptian prehistory (palaeolithic, neolithic and predynastic) as well as the period of the first two dynasties.
The great civilization that grew up around the Nile River had sophisticated irrigation systems that held back the desert, writing and record keeping that kept track of every event in the region, and some of the greatest architects and engineers the world
The Predynastic cultures of Upper Egypt, which pre-dated the unification of the country under one king and the beginning of dynastic history in approximately 3000 BC, were first discovered independently by Flinders Petrie and de Morgan in the 1890s. At first Petrie thought they were over a thousand years later, but on accepting the Frenchman's correct, prehistoric dating he went on to analyse and serialise the distinctive objects from the graves he uncovered, thereby laying the foundations for the study of Predynastic Egypt. This study has developed and diversified; it provides insights into the long civilisation that followed and draws upon the resources of a myriad of specialists; social and physical anthropologists, geologists, zoologists, botanists, chemists, architects, conservators and Egyptologists. As fieldwork in Egypt continues and the subject expands the literature has become specialised and scattered; there is little to satisfy the increasing general interest into the inception of Egyptian culture. This book gives a factual introduction to the sources and types of the material remains of Predynastic Egypt and the way they are used to provide information on the development of society in the absence of a written language. --COVER.