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The Predynastic cemetery at Heliopolis: season March-September 1950
P. von Zabern • Mainz Am Rhein • Published In 1988 • Pages: 57 , plates
By: Debono, Fernand, Mortensen, Bodil.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Debono and Mortensen conducted salvage excavations at the predynastic cemetery found during construction of a building complex. The whole cemetery has probably not been found. The excavation and stratigraphy is described. Also described are more than 60 graves (some of which contained no bones and some which contained animal bones) and the grave goods such as ceramic pottery, stone vases, flint blades, palettes, and shell. Burial customs are described and compared with other contemporary cultures. The settlement associated with the cemetery has not been found. Drawings of the pottery and photographs of some of the burials taken during the excavation are included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Mortality
- Ceramic technology
- Utensils
- Burial practices and funerals
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lower 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 ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- March-September 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Naqada I; Predynastic period
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Heliopolis, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Fernand Debono and Bodil Mortensen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic Period--Egypt
- Egypt--Antiquities