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Elite tombs at Hierakonpolisessay 1996 • Adams, Barbara
Early Dynastic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
This document covers the Predynastic period through the second dynasty. Only the data that pertain to the Protohistoric through the second dynasty were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. Barabara Adams describes the 1979 -1985 ...The fort cemetery at HierakonpolisBook 1987 • Adams, Barbara & Hoffman, Michael A.
Upper Egypt Predynastic • Africa > Northern Africa
Adams has published detailed grave records based on John Garstang's 1905 excavations of the Predynastic cemetery within the mudbrick 'Fort' at Heirakonpolis. To do so, she used his notebooks and records and contacted the various museums that had obje...Imports and influences in the Predynastic and Protodynastic settlement and funerary assemblages at Hierakonpolisessay 1992 • Adams, Barbara & Friedman, Reneé
Upper Egypt Predynastic • Africa > Northern Africa
Adams and Friedman discuss foreign influences and extra-regional imports found at Hierakonpolis. The majority of the paper concentrates on ceramic remains. '…[E]xtra-regional contact …can be defined in three ways: objects or raw materials brought int...Imported pottery with potmarks from Abydosessay 1996 • Porat, Naomi & Adams, Barbara
Early Dynastic Egypt • Africa > Northern Africa
Adams and Porat examine imported pottery and their potmarks from the cemetery at Abydos. The imported pottery was from Israel and Lebanon. A small group '…was sampled for petrographic analysis in the hope that it could: a) confirm that all the pieces...Site reports and mapping projectessay 1982 • Hoffman, Michael A. et al.
Upper Egypt Predynastic • Africa > Northern Africa
Hoffman et al. wanted to test a representative range of sites around the Great Wadi at Hierakonpolis. In this document they present the preliminary reports on the test excavations at Localities 29, 11C, 54, 30A, 27, and 6. The reports include the fie...