Anthropology : EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Topics Discussed in the class : Egyptology and archaeology Environmental overview The Lower Paleolithic Cemeteries of the Wadi Halfa region Nabta Playa: Early evidence of social complexity Near Eastern domesticates Badarian people of Middle Egypt Peoples of the Fayum, Merimde and Khartoum The Upper Egyptian Predynastic Sequence dating The Lower Egyptian Predynastic The Late Predynastic/Archaic in Upper The Unification The Early Dynastic period The First Dynasty The Old Kingdom Pyramids Old Kingdom economic institutions Environmental and economic change in the later Old Kingdom The end of the Old Kingdom The First Intermediate Period ASSIGNMENT: I would like you to share your thoughts as to what lessons we can learn from Egypt's past. You might broadly summarize a topic you found particularly interesting. I would be interested to know whether you learned about something you hadn't thought of before. I would also be interested to know what topics you would like to know more about. .