book chapter
The Later Predynastic Period
Early Egypt : the rise of civilisation in the Nile Valley • London • Published In 1993 • Pages: 34-47
By: Spencer, A. Jeffrey.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Spencer summarizes the Middle to Late Predynastic period and discusses the changes (house style, cemeteries, urbanization, ceramics, art, palettes, etc.). He talks about a gradual influx of newcomers around Naqada II, but there is also continuity with earlier periods. Upper Egypt continued to advance to the north and by late Naqada II it had reached the Delta. There are photographs of objects shown here that are not in the other documents in the Upper Egypt Predynastic file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Utensils
- Visual arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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 chapter
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 5600 BP-5100 BP (3600 B.C.-3100 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- A.J. Spencer
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94144715
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Egypt/Egypt--Antiquities