HI123 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Papyrology, Epigraphy, Heinrich Schliemann
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Sir william lothus: found many architectural remains (coffins, etc) and sent them back to london, late period expansion: 81 to 210 hectares, city centre 110 hectares, major regional centre, potential for good irrigation is an ecological niche, marches provided fish, etc, differentiation in food sources can allow specialization among producers making less self sufficiency, specialist craftsmen, cylinder seals emerge made of shell/bone, administrative device, evidence for the existence of craftmen. Pyramids, mummies and books of the dead: prehistoric funeral practices in egypt, lower egypt closer to mesopotameam, bodies of the dead were buried in pits, no signs of textile wrappings, sands preserve the bodies, 4000 bc maadi culture, pottery vessels, jewellery, shelves, upper egypt, badari culture, dead were buried on mats, heads were faced to the sun (connected to sun related beliefts in eyptian religion, copper ore for pigment, sometimes beads, naqada culture (4000 3000 bce)
