An introduction to the archaeology of Ancient Egypt /
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Language: English
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Wiley-Blackwell,
2015.
Edition: Second edition.
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Call Number: DT60 .B373 2015
Table of Contents:
- •1. Egyptian archaeology: definitions and history : Ancient Egyptian civilization and its prehistoric predecessors ; Egyptian archaeology ; Egyptology ; History of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology ; Archaeological methods ; Archaeological theory ; Ancient Egypt and Egyptian archaeologists in fiction and films •2. Hieroglyphs, language, and pharaonic chronology : Language of the ancient Egyptians ; Origins and development of Egyptian writing ; Scripts and media of writing ; Signs, structure, and grammar ; Literacy in ancient Egypt ; Textual studies ; Use of texts in Egyptian archaeology ; Historical outline of pharaonic Egypt ; The Egyptian civil calendar, king lists, and calculation of pharaonic chronology •3. The environmental background to pharaonic civilization: geography, environment, agriculture, and natural resources : Geography: terms and place names ; Environmental setting ; Environmental and other problems for archaeology in Egypt ; The seasons and the agricultural system ; The ancient Egyptian diet ; Other useful animals and plants ; Building materials ; Other resources: clays, stones, minerals ; Imported materials •4. Egyptian prehistory: the Paleolithic and Neolithic : Paleolithic: Paleolithic cultures in Egypt ; Lower Paleolithic ; Middle Paleolithic ; Upper Paleolithic ; Late Paleolithic ; Epipaleolithic (final Paleolithic) •Neolithic : Saharan Neolithic ; Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Faiyum A and Lower Egypt ; Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Middle and Upper Egypt •5. The rise of complex society and early civilization : Predynastic Egypt: The predynastic period: Egypt in the fourth millennium BC ; Lower Egypt: predynastic culture ; Upper Egypt: Naqada culture ; Lower Nubia: A-group culture ; State formation and unification •The early dynastic state: Organization and institutions of the early dynastic state ; Early writing and formal art ; The expanding state ; Who were the ancient Egyptians? Physical anthropology. •6. The Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period : The Old Kingdom: overview •The early Old Kingdom : The 3rd Dynasty: Djoser's step pyramid at Saqqara ; The 4th dynasty's first king, Sneferu, and his three pyramids ; Khufu's great pyramid at Giza ; The Great Sphinx and Khafra's pyramid complex ; Menkaura's Giza pyramid and its remarkable valley temple finds ; Giza pyramid towns ; Giza Mastabas, Queen Hetepheres's hidden "tomb," and the workmen's cemetery •The later Old Kingdom : Sun temples of the 5th dynasty ; Later Old Kingdom pyramids and the pyramid texts ; An expanding bureaucracy: private tombs in the 5th and 6th dynasties ; Egypt abroad •The First Intermediate Period : The end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period: causes of state collapse •7. The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period : The Middle Kingdom : The Middle Kingdom: overview ; Pre-unification 11th dynasty: Saff tombs at Thebes ; Mentuhotep II's complex at Deir el-Bahri ; Model workers and the Deir el-Bahri tomb of Meketra ; 12th-dynasty temples ; 12th- and 13th-dynasty pyramids ; Towns and domestic architecture: Kahun and South Abydos ; Nomarchs in Middle Egype: the Beni Hasan tombs ; Mining in the Sinai and a Galena mine in the eastern desert ; Egyptian forts in Nubia and indigenous peoples there •The Second Intermediate Period : The Second Intermediate Period: the Hyksos Kingdom in the north ; The Kerma Kingdom in Upper Nubia ; The Theban state during the Second Intermediate Period •8 The New Kingdom : The New Kingdom: overview •The Early New Kingdom : Early New Kingdom architecture: Ahmose's Abydos pyramid complex, the Thutmosid Palace and Harbor at Tell el-Daba, and the Theban mortuary temples at Hatshepsut and Thutmost III ; Amenhotep III's Malkata Palace ; Tell el-Amarna and the Amarna Period ; The Amarna aftermath and Tutankhamen's tomb •New Kingdom temples : Restoration of the traditional gods: Sety I's Abydos Temple ; The temples of Karnak and Luxor in the New Kingdom ; Ramessid mortuary temples •Royal and elite tombs : Royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens ; Elite tombs at Thebes and Saqqara •State towns and settlements : The workmen's village and tombs at Deir el-Medina ; Nubian temple towns. •9. The Third Intermediate Period and Late Period : The Third Intermediate Period: overview ; The Late Period: overview ; Tanis: a new city with royal tombs ; Napata/Gebel Barkal and Sanam ; el-Kurru and Nuri: the Kushite royal tombs ; Saqqara: the Serapeum and animal cults ; Some high-status tombs of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period ; Tell el-Maskhuta and Tell el-Herr •10. The Greco-Roman Period : Greco-Roman Egypt : The Ptolemaic Period: overview ; The Roman Period: overview ; Alexandria ; Greco-Roman settlements in the Faiyum ; Two Greco-Roman temple complexes in Upper Egypt: Dendera and Philae •Sites outside the Nile Valley : The western desert: Bahariya and Dakhla oases ; The eastern desert: Roman ports, forts, roads, and quarrying sites •Nubia : Qasr Ibrim ; Meroe: the Kushite capital and royal cemeteries •11. The study of ancient Egypt.