book chapter

The unification of the land

Early Egypt : the rise of civilisation in the Nile Valley • London • Published In 1993 • Pages: 48-62

By: Spencer, A. Jeffrey.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Spencer describes some of the processes that occurred in unifying the northern and southern kingdoms. The unification took place over several hundred years in two stages; the spread of the material culture first during the Late Predynastic Period, followed by the establishment of a single political government. Spencer describes the merging of the ceramics, the changing funerary customs, several ceremonial palettes and whether they describe the final unification of the south over the north or not (such as that found on the Narmer palette), and the inscriptions that mention various kings.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sociocultural trends
Writing
Visual arts
Chief executive
Sacred objects and places
Chronologies and culture sequences
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Early Dynastic Egypt
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
5300 BP- 5000 BP (3300 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
A.J. Spencer
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
94144715
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Egypt--Antiquities/Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.