book chapter
The Stone Age and the Early Predynastic cultures
Early Egypt : the rise of civilisation in the Nile Valley • London • Published In 1993 • Pages: 17-33
By: Spencer, A. Jeffrey.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Spencer discusses the paleolithic, neolithic, and predynastic cultures for Upper and Lower Egypt. For the predynastic period of Upper Egypt, the Badarian and Naqada cultures are described along with the objects found in the graves such as ceramics, lithic and bone artifacts, art and religious objects, and mace heads. This document includes photos of artifacts not seen in the other eHRAF documents in this file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Personal grooming
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Utensils
- Visual arts
- 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
- 7000 BP- 5600 BP (5000 B.C.-3600 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
- A.J. Spencer
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94144715
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Egypt/Egypt--Antiquities