essay
Recent discoveries in the U-Cemetery at Abydos
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: 293-300
By: Dreyer, Günter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dreyer briefly presents some of the findings from field work in Cemetery U. Some 50 plus burials are classified into five groups. 'There is no doubt that cemetery U had [developed] continuously into the royal cemetery B of Dynasty 0.' (page 293).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- History
- Miscellaneous structures
- Utensils
- External trade
- Burial practices and funerals
- Typologies and classifications
- 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
- 1981, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Naqada IId-Naqada IIIb
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abydos, Cemetery U; Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Günter Dreyer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93135611
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Egypt--Antiquities/Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.