NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Badari Culture, Grave Goods, Buto
8 Jan 2014
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Rulers dated things from their succession to the throne. The means by which they wrote does not survive very well. Homework: brewer and e. teeter, egyptian art: craftsmen, techniques, and conventions, in eid. , egypt and the. Egyptians, 189 207: robins, art , in t. wilkinson, the egyptian world (london, new york, Naqada (name of culture that spread through entire valley) Increasing importance of copper tools, esp. pins and beads. Similar to badari, but great advances in stone cutting. Like badari + red with white deco. , some contact with western asia --> imported lapis and turquoise. Mat-lined pits, foetus-position, head s, face w --> Most: oval pits; foetus position; sparse grave goods; but: wadi. Copper; alabaster bases, palettes, combs, shell jewelry etc. Moving from one sedentary culture to sedentary culture. Naqada ii now extends throughout the entire nile. Slow, steady progress from the south to the north through archaeology. Nmc 101 - land of the pharaohs page 1.
