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1 online resource (511 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Egyptian Archaeology: Definitions and History -- 1.1 Introduction: Ancient Egyptian Civilization and Its Prehistoric Predecessors -- 1.2 Egyptian Archaeology -- 1.3 Egyptology -- 1.4 History of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology -- 1.5 Archaeological Methods -- 1.6 Archaeological Theory -- 1.7 Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Archaeologists in Fiction and Films -- Chapter 2 Hieroglyphs, Language, and Pharaonic Chronology |
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2.1 Language of the Ancient Egyptians -- 2.2 Origins and Development of Egyptian Writing -- 2.3 Scripts and Media of Writing -- 2.4 Signs, Structure, and Grammar -- 2.5 Literacy in Ancient Egypt -- 2.6 Textual Studies -- 2.7 Use of Texts in Egyptian Archaeology -- 2.8 Historical Outline of Pharaonic Egypt -- 2.9 The Egyptian Civil Calendar, King Lists, and Calculation of Pharaonic Chronology -- Chapter 3 The Environmental Background to Pharaonic Civilization: Geography, Environment, Agriculture, and Natural Resources -- 3.1 Geography: Terms and Place Names -- 3.2 Environmental Setting |
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3.3 Environmental and Other Problems for Archaeology in Egypt -- 3.4 The Seasons and the Agricultural System -- 3.5 The Ancient Egyptian Diet -- 3.6 Other Useful Animals and Plants -- 3.7 Building Materials -- 3.8 Other Resources: Clays, Stones, Minerals -- 3.9 Imported Materials -- Chapter 4 Egyptian Prehistory: The Paleolithic and Neolithic -- Paleolithic -- 4.1 Paleolithic Cultures in Egypt -- 4.2 Lower Paleolithic -- 4.3 Middle Paleolithic -- 4.4 Upper Paleolithic -- 4.5 Late Paleolithic -- 4.6 Epipaleolithic (Final Paleolithic) -- Neolithic -- 4.7 Saharan Neolithic |
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4.8 Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Faiyum A and Lower Egypt -- 4.9 Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Middle and Upper Egypt -- Chapter 5 The Rise of Complex Society and Early Civilization -- Predynastic Egypt -- 5.1 The Predynastic Period: Egypt in the Fourth Millennium BC -- 5.2 Lower Egypt: Predynastic Culture -- 5.3 Upper Egypt: Naqada Culture -- 5.4 Lower Nubia: A-Group Culture -- 5.5 State Formation and Unification -- The Early Dynastic State -- 5.6 Organization and Institutions of the Early Dynastic State -- 5.7 Early Writing and Formal Art -- 5.8 The Expanding State |
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5.9 Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Physical Anthropology -- Chapter 6 The Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period -- 6.1 The Old Kingdom: Overview -- The Early Old Kingdom -- 6.2 The 3rd Dynasty: Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara -- 6.3 The 4th Dynasty's First King, Sneferu, and His Three Pyramids -- 6.4 Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza -- 6.5 The Great Sphinx and Khafra's Pyramid Complex -- 6.6 Menkaura's Giza Pyramid and Its Remarkable Valley Temple Finds -- 6.7 Giza Pyramid Towns -- 6.8 Giza Mastabas, Queen Hetepheres's Hidden "Tomb," and the Workmen's Cemetery -- The Later Old Kingdom |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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6.9 Sun Temples of the 5th Dynasty |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118896112 |
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1118896114 |
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