Field Report

In 1898–1899, Sir Flinders Petrie excavated Predynastic, pharaonic, and Roman period cemeteries in the vicinity of Hu, EgyptSE of Nag Hammadi. As few Predynastic settlements have been preserved and excavated in Egypt, fieldwork to locate settlements associated with Petrie's Predynastic cemeteries was conducted in 1989. The Egyptian Predynastic was a crucial period of social, political, and economic change, dating from approximately 4000 to 3000 B.C., in which complex society and the state evolved from simple village farming communities. As the Hu region had a major concentration of Predynastic burials, fieldwork there was aimed at a study of Predynastic settlements which would yield more specific data about major cultural changes than did the limited burial data recorded by Petrie.Two Predynastic settlement sites were located at Abadiyeh and Semaineh . Much of the Abadiyeh site was previously cultivated, but the Semaineh site was undisturbed. Because of its proximity to a Nagada III cemetery, the Semaineh settlement is thought to date to this period, immediately preceding the founding of the First Dynasty. Very little settlement data exists for the Nagada III period, and it is hoped that future excavations at Semaineh will provide information for a better understanding of this poorly known period

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• Urbanism and the Rise of Complex Society and the Early State in Egypt

  Kathryn A Bard•Emergence and Change in Early…•1997

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• Toward an interpretation of the role of ideology in the evolution of complex society in Egypt

  Open Access•Kathryn A Bard•Journal of Anthropological…•1992

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• Sources of the predynastic grinding stones in the hu‐semaineh region, upper Egypt, and their cultural context

  Open Access•Abdel‐Moneim A Mahmoud, Kathryn A Bard•Geoarchaeology•1993

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• The Egyptian Predynastic

  Kathryn A Bard•Journal of Field Archaeology•1994

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• Radiocarbon Dates from Halfiah Gibli (Abadiyeh), a Predynastic Settlement in Upper Egypt

  Open Access•Kathryn A Bard•Radiocarbon•2003

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• Automatic Analysis of Predynastic Cemeteries

  Barry J Kemp•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1982

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• The Geography of Excavated Predynastic Sites and the Rise of Complex Society

  Kathryn A Bard•Journal of the American Research…•1987

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• Stand und Probleme der ägyptischen Vorgeschichtsforschung

  WERNER KAISER•Zeitschrift für Ägyptische…•1956

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