Arqueología del neolítico egipcio

1. The Archaeology of Egypt’s Prehistory
1 February 2012

2. Early Egyptian Chronology
• Paleolithic (c. 700,000-7000 BP)
• Saharan Neolithic (c. 8800-4700 BC)
• Lower Egyptian Neolithic and Chalcolithic (c.
5300-3200 BC)
• Predynastic
– Badarian (c. 4400-3800 BC)
– Naqada I/Amratian (c. 3900-3650 BC)
– Naqada II/Gerzean (c. 3650-3300 BC)
– Naqada III (c. 3300-2950)
• Overlaps with Dynasties 0 and 1

3. The Paleolithic Period

5. Acheulean Technology

6. Core technology
chipped stone

7. Levallois points
Nubian core tool

9. Gebel Sahaba: late
Paleolithic cemetery
Microliths

10. The Neolithic Period

11. e Sahara Neolithic: ceramics and cattle

12. Saharan Neolithic, c.
8000-4700 BC
Gilf Kebir cave painting Excavating Nabta Playa

13. Nabta Playa stone circles

14. Lower Egyptian Neolithic/
Predynastic
c. 5300-4000 BC

15. Fayum Neolithic A, c.
5450-4400 BC

16. Merimde Culture
c. 4800-4300 BC

17. Maadi Culture
c. 3900-3200 BC

18. Upper Egyptian Predynastic
Key Upper Egyptian sites:
Badari
Naqada
Hierakonpolis
Abydos

19. Early Egyptian Chronology
• Paleolithic (c. 700,000-7000 BP)
• Saharan Neolithic (c. 8800-4700 BC)
• Lower Egyptian Neolithic and Chalcolithic (c.
5300-3200 BC)
• Predynastic
– Badarian (c. 4400-3800 BC)
– Naqada I/Amratian (c. 3900-3650 BC)
– Naqada II/Gerzean (c. 3650-3300 BC)
– Naqada III (c. 3300-2950)
• Overlaps with Dynasties 0 and 1

20. Badarian culture, Upper Egypt

21. Cemeteries
at Naqada

23. Naqada I pottery: themes of power

24. Naqada I figurines

25. Naqada I siltstone palettes

26. Hierakonpolis and the
Naqada II Period

27. Naqada II pottery

29. Naqada II siltstone palettes

30. Maceheads from Naqada II graves

31. Naqada II areas of settlement and cemetery at Hierakonpolis

32. Model houses from graves
Naqada II, Upper Egypt

34. Hierakonpolis HK29A “temple”

35. Hierakonpolis Tomb 100

36. Wall painting in Hierakonpolis Tomb 100

37. The Buto-Maadi culture
complex and the
“cultural unification” of
Egypt

38. Maadi buildings

39. Lower Egyptian Maadi

40. Artifacts from Maadi
including pottery, spindle
whorls, and copper ingots

41. Abydos and the
Naqada III period:
Political unification

42. Siltstone palettes in the Naqada III period

44. Themes of domination on siltstone palettes

45. Flint knives (and their ivory handles) from the Naqada III

46. The Gebel
el Araq knife

49. Umm el-Qaab
Cemetery U
Abydos

50. Abydos tomb U-j
Substructure and ivory tags