Anthropology 2100 Lecture : Complex Societies in Ancient Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2100
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

Complex societies in ancient egypt and sub-saharan africa. Agriculture greatly benefited from the nile because of the annual re-fertilization from flooding but irrigation was necessary in most areas and there were 3 harvests per year. The nile was also used for transportation, trade, and the passing of information and it also provided other resources such as fish, ducks, reeds, flax, and papyrus. Lower egypt was located north around the nile delta and upper egypt was located in the south in more arid areas. Egypt has a long history of ancient sites being looted for example by giovanni belzoni who did extreme damage to important sites up and down the nile in the 19th century. Sir flanders petrie (1880"s-1920"s) developed careful excavation and recording techniques and he applied seriation to artifacts from 2000 graves at nagada and he defined the cultural chronology for the pre-dynastic. These people were early farmers with gardens and domestic animals and they also hunted and gathered.