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The Early Dynastic and transitional pottery of Mendes: the 1990 season

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 studiesTel Aviv, IsraelPublished In 1992 • Pages: 199-205

By: Friedman, Renée.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Friedman briefly discusses and describes the ceramics found and compares some of them to ceramics found at Buto. During the 1991 field season, ceramics were found that are more like those of Naqada.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Ceramic technology
Utensils
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
1990-1991
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
Late Predynastic-Early Dynasty
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Mendes, Egypt
NotesAdditional notes
Renée F. Friedman
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
93135611
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Egypt--Antiquities/Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.