essay
The Pre- and Early Dynastic pottery of Tel el-Fara'in/Buto
nile delta in transition : 4th.-3rd. millennium b.c. : proceedings of the seminar held in cairo, 21.-24. october 1990, at the netherlands institute of archaeology and arabic studies • Tel Aviv, Israel • Published In 1992 • Pages: 11-22
By: Köhler, E. Christiana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Köhler describes the pottery found at Buto from the late Naqada period to the early 4th dynasty. The stata at Buto show a mostly gradual transition from Lower Egyptian pottery to Naqada pottery. There are some things that are unique to Buto such as miniture bowls and jars that had holes punched in them after firing. Also found amoung Buto pottery were imports from Syro-Palestine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Ceramic technology
- Utensils
- Visual arts
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 1987-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Late Naqada to early Old Kingdom
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Buto (Tell el-Fara'in), Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christiana E. Köhler
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 22)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93135611
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Egypt--Antiquities/Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.