The prehistory of Egypt from the first Egyptians to the first pharaohs /

The prehistory of Egypt from the first Egyptians to the first pharaohs /

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Main Author: Midant-Reynes, Béatrix (Author)

Other Authors: Leclant, Jean, Shaw. Ian, 1961-

Format: Book

Language: English
French

Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Subjects:

Pharaohs > History.
Prehistoric peoples > Egypt.
Nile River Valley > Antiquities.

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Call Number: GN855 .E3 M53 2000

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Table of Contents:
  • The Land of Egypt
  • Between the River and the Desert
  • The Nile Valley : from the Rift Valley to the Terraces
  • The Eastern Desert : high mountains and 'miraculous rains'
  • The Western Desert : the flat land of the oases
  • The Palaeolithic Period
  • The earliest evidence for humans in the Nile valley
  • The beginnings of cultural diversity
  • Diversity or Nilotic adaptation
  • The Neolithic Period
  • The process of 'Neolithicization'
  • The great Holocene wet phase (c.12000-8000 BP)
  • The mid-Holocene arid phase (c.8000/7500-7000/6500 BP)
  • The Neolithic period (fifth millennium BC)
  • The Faiyum Neolithic
  • Merimda Beni Salama
  • El-Omari.
  • El-Tarif
  • The Khartoum Neolithic
  • The earliest pottery in Nubia
  • The Sahara Neolithic
  • The Badarian culture
  • The Approach to the Pharaonic Period (fourth millennium BC)
  • The Predynastic period (c.4000-3000 BC)
  • Upper Egypt : Naqada I/Amratian and Naqada II/Gerzean
  • Lower Egypt : Maadi and Wadi Digla, Heliopolis, Buto and other Maadian sites
  • Lower Nubia : the Groupages
  • The late Neolithic of Khartoum and the surrounding area (including el-Kadada)
  • The first pharaohs and the unification of the Two Lands
  • Relative chronology and the traditional dating systems
  • 'Absolute dates'