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Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
Author(s): Emily Teeter
- Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Publication Date: March 28, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 284 pages
- ISBN-10: 1885923821
- ISBN-13: 9781885923820
Book Description
Foreword (
Gil J. Stein)The Chronology of Early Egypt
Introduction (
Emily Teeter)List of Contributors
Map of Principal Areas and Sites
1. Sequence Dating and Predynastic Chronology (
Stan Hendrickx)2. Petrie and the Discovery of Earliest Egypt (
Patricia Spencer)3. Political Organization of Egypt in the Predynastic Period (
Branislav Andelkovic)4. Hierakonpolis (
Renée Friedman)5. The Predynastic Cultures of the Nile Delta (
Yann Tristant and Béatrix Midant-Reynes)6. The Predynastic/Early Dynastic Period at Tell el-Farkha (
Krzysztof M. Cialowicz)7. Material Culture of the Predynastic Period (
Alice Stevenson)8. Iconography of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods (
Stan Hendrickx)9. Relations between Egypt and Nubia in the Naqada Period (
Bruce B. Williams)10. Crafts and Craft Specialization (
Stan Hendrickx)11. The Invention of Writing in Egypt (
David Wengrow)12. Early Interaction between Peoples of the Nile Valley and the Southern Levant (
Eliot Braun)13. The Rise of the Egyptian State (
E. Christiana Köhler)14. Tomb U-j: A Royal Burial of Dynasty 0 at Abydos (
Günter Dreyer)15. The First Kings of Egypt: The Abydos Evidence (
Laurel Bestock)16. The Narmer Palette: A New Interpretation (
David O’Connor)Catalog of Objects
Concordance of Museum Registration Numbers
Checklist of the Exhibit
