AHIS170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Buto, Silt, Farkha
27 Aug 2018
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* each ware type is characteristic of one period within the predynastic, and can be used to date the tomb in which it is found: * naqada ia-iib: black topped pottery, white cross-lined pottery, red polished pottery, rough pottery. * naqada iic-iiic: decorated pottery, new shapes of rough pottery, wavy handled pottery. * stone vessels become increasingly common, made of hard stone like basalt, breccia, porphyry and serpentine. * naqada i shapes: conical beakers with flaring rims, pedestalled vessels. * naqada i-ii shapes: globular, ovoid vessels with drilled tubular handles. * stone tool industry was specialised, manufacturing flint tools like small twisted bladelets, fine bifacially retouched knives, fishtail knives and ripple flaked knives(high quality) * flint knives used for dating based upon blade shape and retouch techniques. Handles made of leather, fabric bone and ivory. * copper tools begin to be manufactured using metallurgy, and are rare in the archaeological record.
