Book
From farmers to pharaohs: mortuary evidence for the rise of complex society in Egypt
Sheffield Academic Press • Sheffield, England • Published In 1994 • Pages: vi, 144
By: Bard, Kathryn A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bard explores the origins of Egyptian civilization and state formation. She first reviews other authors' theories about why the Egyptian state arose. She then reviews the predynastic archaeological evidence in Upper, Middle, and Lower Egypt and the absolute dates, Petries Sequence Dating, and Kaiser's seriation dating. Much of the archaeological evidence is from cemeteries. The Armant and Nagada cemeteries are described and an analysis of their grave goods is done to examine the graves' status or ranking. At Nagada one sees the emergence of elites. Increased social differentiation and stratification is one of the major factors in state formation. In Egypt this is coupled with the rise of a mortuary cult. The governing instituitions became symbolically associated with the mortuary cult during the Predynastic. It may have been a way to legitimize secular power.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Sociocultural trends
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Status, role, and prestige
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Upper Egypt Predynastic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978 and 1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6000 BP- 5000 BP (4000 B.C.-3000 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kathryn A. Bard
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-148) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94130510
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Egypt/Egypt--Antiquities