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 studiesTel Aviv, IsraelPublished 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.