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Imports and influences in the Predynastic and Protodynastic settlement and funerary assemblages at Hierakonpolis

nile in transition, 4th. - 3rd milleniumb.cJerusalem • Published In 1992 • Pages: 317-338

By: Adams, Barbara, Friedman, Reneé.

Abstract
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 into the region from another country…; objects or raw materials brought in from somewhere else in Egypt…; objects of local maufacture which copy foreign prototypes, or have developed from them.' (page 317). Adams and Friedman speculate that greater access to eastern goods was possible once Maadi was abandoned and as Naqada culture moved south.
Subjects
Acculturation and culture contact
Ceramic technology
Utensils
External trade
Visual arts
Burial practices and funerals
tradition
Upper Egypt Predynastic
HRAF PubDate
2005
Region
Africa
Sub Region
Northern Africa
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Type
Archaeologist
Document Rating
4: Excellent Secondary Data
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Sarah Berry ; 2004
Field Date
1978-1989
Coverage Date
Naqada I-III
Coverage Place
Hierakonpolis, Egypt
Notes
Barbara Adams and Reneé Friedman
Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-338)
LCCN
93135611
LCSH
Neolithic period--Egypt/Egypt--Antiquities