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Introduction

This site has been put together to aggregate information about Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt. For more detailed information about the goals and intentions of the site, please see the Introduction page. Updates are detailed below.

At the moment if you want to print any of these pages you will need to set your printer preferences to Landscape.

Please use the main menu, left, to navigate to the required pages. Detailed contents listings are shown on each page. Alternatively, click on the Site Map under the navigation bar, at the bottom of the page, to the left.

LATEST NEWS, November 2011: Although the site hasn’t been updated in the last couple of years there have been some significant new books on the market, which I haven’t had time to add to the pages on this site. These include:

Barker, G. 2006. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Why did Foragers become Farmers? Oxford University Press

Kroeper, K., Chlondnicki, M. and Kobusiewicz, M. (eds) 2006, Archaeology of Early Northeastern Africa, Poznan Archaeological Museum

Shirai, N. 2010. The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt, Leiden University Press

Wengrow, D. 2010. The Archaeology of Early Egypt. Social Transformations in North-East AFrica, 10,000 to 2650 BC, Cambridge University Press

Wenke, R.J. 2009. The Ancient Egyptian State. the Origins of Egyptian Culture (c.8000-2000 BC). Cambridge University Press

If you have any comments about this site, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Andie Byrnes
andie [at] oddthing . co . uk

My other websites:
Egytology News www.egyptology.blogspot.com
Predynastic of the Faiyum Depression www.faiyum.com
Archaeology of Egypt’s Eastern Desert http://archaeology-easterndesert.com
Prehistoric Near East http://neareast-prehistory.com/
Egyptological Magazine www.egyptological.com

UPDATES:

Section	Subsection/s	Date Updated	Comment

Home	n / a	6th November 2011	Updated
About	n/a	6th November 2011	Updated
All	All	5th December 2006	Updated
Appendices	Glossaries: Geo-environmental Glossary	29th November 2005	Updated
Through Time	Prehistory: Palaeolithic	29th November 2005	Updated the Upper Palaeolithic
Through Time	Prehistory: Epipalaeolithic	29th November 2005	Updated the Dakhleh Masara
Through Time	Early Predynastic - Sheikh Muftah	28th November 2005	Updated the Dakhleh Sheikh Muftah Unit with information from McDonald 2001
Through Time	Prehistory: Neolithic - Dakhleh Bashendi A and Bashendi B	28th November 2005	Updated the Dakhleh Neolithic with information from McDonald 2001, corrected some typos on the Neolithic page, and provided it with a reorganized table of contents.
Entire Site	n/a	19th August 2005	Reformatted the text - although it was displaying ok in MS Explorer, text sizes were showing as different sizes on some browsers (e.g. Mozilla Firefox)
Appendices	Geological Calendar	30th July 2005	Added
Geology	n/a	30th July 2005	Maps now fixed.
Appendices	An Environmental Overview of Prehistoric Egypt	29th July 2005	First Draft Completed. Currently only deals with climate from the Late Pleistocene. This will be updated soon, so that climate during Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods is also recorded
Through Time	Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic	27th July 2005	Updated
Bibliography	n/a	26th July 2005	Updated, and checked against all references in the text on all pages. In the text, if a reference is highlighted in pink it is missing from the Biblio, but will be added very soon.
Through Time	Early Predynastic	26th July 2005	Reorganized, and a contents list added to make it easier to navigate
Through Time	Early Dynastic	24th July 2005	Updated: First Dynasty Added: Second Dynasty (A lot of work still needed on this page)
Appendices	Raw Materials	23rd July 2005	Updated
Through Time	Prehistoric: Palaeolithic	19th July 2005	Updated: Late Palaeolithic (Elkabian and Makhadman)
Through Time	Prehistoric: Neolithic	19th July 2005	Updated: Djara and Abu Gerara, Early Sahran Neolithic, Late Saharan Neolithic Added: Farafra Neolithic
Through Time	Prehistoric: Epipalaeolithic	19th July 2005	Added: Farafra Epipalaeolithic
Bibliography	n/a	18th July 2005	Updated with newest references used
Through Time	Prehistoric: Palaeolithic	18th July 2005	Updated: Aterian
Through Time	Prehistoric: Neolithic	18th July 2005	Updated: Djara/Abu Gerara, and Gilf Kebir
Through Time	Prehistoric: Epiplaaeolithic	18th July 2005	Updated: Gilf Kebir and “Other” (Djara)
Through Time	Prehistoric: Neolithic	17th July 2005	Added: Gilf Kebir
Through Time	Early Predynastic	15th July 2005	Updated: Sheikh Muftah (Dakhleh)
Through Time	Prehistoric: Palaeolithic, Neolithic	15th July 2005	Updated: The Acheulean (Sai Island, Nubia), the Kubbaniyan, the Sangoan (Nubian MSA) and Bashendi (Dakhleh)
Bibliography	n/a	14th July 2005	The references used in the latest udpates to the sites have been added to the bibliography.
Through Time	Prehistoric: Neolithic	14th July 2005	Added: Eastern Desert Neolithic (Tree Shelter and initial notes about Sodmein Cave) Updated: Tarifian
Through Time	Prehistoric: Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic	14th July 2005	Updated: the Elkabian
(Navigation)	All	12 July 2005	Apologies if my tinkering with the menu system caused problems! It is still something that needs some work, but is possibly a bit easier to use.
Through Time	Prehistoric and Predynastic	12 July 2005	Badarian, Tasian and Tarifian moved into Neolithic section of Prehistoric pages (formerly in Predynastic pages)
Bibliography	n/a	12th July 2005	Most recent references added (both those already used and those to be added in the next few days)
Appendices	Appendix B	11th July 2005	Overview of Fieldwork from the early 1900s
Through Time	Late Predynastic	11th July 2005	Naqada III A and B completely updated
Through Time	Prehistory: Neolithic	11th July 2005	Djara Neolithic added and Dakhleh Bashendi Neolithic considerably expanded
Through Time	Prehistory: Epipalaeolithic	11th July 2005	Dakhleh Masara Added
Through Time	Early Dynastic	11th July 2005	Updated the Introduction and First Dynasty info - but there is still an awful lot of work to do on this page
Please note that the rest of this table now forms an archive of updates in the Site Updates Archive located in Appendix J. To see all previous updates, please click on the above link.


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