ARCH 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: V. Gordon Childe, Anatomically Modern Human, Emmer
16 Jul 2016
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Midterm will consist of 50 multiple choice questions. No artwork (in contrast to ancient europe) Sea leavel dropped 150 m & exposed ocean floor, during the boiling. Nile valley neolithic ca 5500-4000 bc (faiyum a culture; merimde beni- Chronology of ancient egypt: predynastic period 5500-3000 bc , dynastic of pharaonic egypt 3000-332 bc, early predynastic (5500-3500 bc) Faiyum a (5500-4500 bc) & merimde (4750-4250 bc) El-omari: contemporary with last phase of meimde, and similar to it. Wattle and daub houses : tools for farming and fishing but little for hunting, stone & bone tools. Were found in individual households which were used for storages probably no communal purposes. Cemeteries gradually placed farther away from domestic areas. Bodies in fetal position wrapped in animal skins or mats. Provisions placed in graves such as hunting gear, pottery; no luxury goods in early predynastic. Sites in lower egypt have superious weaponry/stone tools while upper.
