{"product_id":"the-prehistory-of-egypt-isbn-9780631201694","title":"The Prehistory of Egypt","description":"This books covers the history of the Nile Valley from Nubia to the Mediterranean, during the period from the earliest hominid settlement, around 700,000 BC to the beginnings of dynastic Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium BC.  Illustrations. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslator's Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Land of Egypt:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Between the River and the Desert.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Palaeolithic Period:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Earliest Evidence for Humans in the Nile Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Beginnings of Cultural Diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Diversity or Nilotic Adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Neolithic Period:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Process of 'Neolithicization'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Neolithic Period (Fifth Millennium BC).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Approach to the Pharaonic Period (Fourth Millennium BC):\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Predynastic Period (c. 4000-3000 BC).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The First Pharaohs and the Unification of the Two Lands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Relative Chronology and the Traditional Dating Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: 'Absolute Dates'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Egyptologists frequently have little understanding of the prehistoric past, especially the paleolithic periods, and it is commendable that Midant-Reynes has included this overview.\" \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of African Historical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... integrate[s] the prehistory of Egypt and Nubia through into the (Egyptian) Unification period, thus investigating the entire united Nile region and its flanking deserts in a logical but rarely encountered attempt to develop a cohesive picture ... In this the book succeeds admirably.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of African History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  The author, Béatrix Midant-Reynes, is Head of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Toulouse (Centre d’Anthropologie, Université Paul Sabatier). She is also editor of \u003ci\u003eArchéonil\u003c\/i\u003e (a journal dedicated to the study of prehistoric Egypt and Nubia) and Director of the excavations at the Predynastic site of Adaïma (on behalf of IFAO). In 1986 she was Humbolt Stipendiatin in Staatliche Sammlung Ágyptischer Kunst’ in Munich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe translator, Ian Shaw, is lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAncient Egyptian Warfare and Weapons\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e (with Nicholson, 1995) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jameson: Blackwell, 1998) and \u003ci\u003eAncient Egyptian Materials and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e (with Nicholson, 1999). He also translated Nicolas Grimal’s \u003ci\u003eA History of Ancient Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1992).\u003c\/p\u003e  This book covers the prehistory of the Nile Valley from Nubia to the Mediterranean, during the period from the earliest hominid settlement, around 700,000 BC, to the beginnings of dynastic Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium BC. The author explores the prehistoric foundations pf many of the cultural traditions of Pharaonic Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book focuses primarily on the fifteen millennia from 18,000 to 3,000 BC, when different cultures can be identified and the earliest forms of agriculture traced with some detail. Textile and ceramic production began at the end of the seventh millennium and were deployed with great skill and considerable sophistication by the beginning of the Predynastic Period at around 4,500 BC. By the Early Dynastic Period much that is considered characteristic of Ancient Egypt, such as cosmology and burial rites, was already established tradition.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis account of prehistoric Egypt will be welcomed as an outstanding narrative, combining both scholarship and accessibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990319874277,"sku":"NP9780631201694","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631201694.jpg?v=1761787342","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-prehistory-of-egypt-isbn-9780631201694","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}