Book
Egypt's making: the origins of ancient Egypt 5000-2000 BC
Routledge • London • Published In 1990 • Pages:
By: Rice, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses Egypt from circa 8000 B.P. (6000 B.C.) up through the 6th Dynasty. Only the data pertinent to the Predynastic period of Upper Egypt or about 8000 B.P. through the reign of Narmer were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. Rice is very interested in Arabia and the Arabian Gulf. So in this synthesis Rice examines the outside influences on Egypt from the Arabian peninsula and the mercantile culture in the Arabian Gulf islands. He is especially interested in contacts between Egypt, Sumer, Mesopotamia, Oman, the island of Bahrain, Elam, and the Arabian peninsula. Most of the contacts occurred in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia. The last chapter about Egyptian culture as seen through Jung and is a short Jungian analysis. An appendix describes the Egyptian hound that appears in the art on many different artifacts. The description includes how the ancient Egyptians used the dog and its behavior as it is known today. The dog is now known as the Pharaoh Hound or Kelb al-Fenek.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Comparative evidence
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Visual arts
- Chief executive
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- 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
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 8000 BP- 5000 BP (6000 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)
- Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Rice
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-315) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89049319
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Egypt/Egypt--Antiquities