book chapter
Die Pflanzenfunde von Maadi
Maadi : excavations at the Predynastic site of Maadi and its cemeteries conducted by Mustapha Amer and Ibrahim Rizkana on behalf of the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts of Cairo University, 1930-1953 ; The non-lithic small finds and the structural remains of the Predynastic settlement • III • Published In 1989 • Pages: 129-136
By: Kroll, Helmut.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The plant remains from Maadi, notably emmer, barley, acacia, tamarisk, and cedar differ little from those of the Old Kingdom. Emmer (a hard red variety of wheat) is and remains the only wheat for a long time. Very late in Ptolemaic times, finds of naked wheats occur and soon supersede emmer. Apart from flax, which is a fiber plant and probably not used as a nutrient, emmer and barley are the main products of the Maadi plant agriculture. The few pea and grass pea seed found at Maadi are of a weedy character, but a simultaneous cultivation of grass pea especially is possible. Tamarisk and acadia were the woods most commonly in use at the site. Their knotty wood was not suitable for all purposes, however, and straight-growing cedar wood was imported for specilized uses (p. 135).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Vegetable production
- Lumbering
- Woodworking
- 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 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Maadi-North: 1930-1936, 1939, 1940, 1946-1948; Wadi Digla/Maadi-South: 1951-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Predynastic second half of Naqada 1-Naqada 11 c
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Maadi, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Von Helmut Kroll
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-136)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88128551
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic Period--Egypt
- Egypt--Antiquities