Social Continuity and Change in the First Intermediate Period

Insights from Utilitarian Ceramics

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ID12955877
AuthorsLeslie Anne Warden (0000-0003-0373-9903, Roanoke College, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume17
Issue2
Pages222-240
Publication date2025-03-20
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Egyptian History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-1657 • E-ISSN: 1874-1665
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18741665-bja10032
OpenAlexW4408835636
LanguageEN
References cited6

Scholarship often identifies the First Intermediate Period as a time of great change in Egyptian history. This paper will argue that investigation of Egyptian social practice highlights that the First Intermediate Period was not just a time of creative disruption, but also a time of social continuity unifying the late Old Kingdom with the Middle Kingdom. This paper uses utilitarian ceramics as a proxy for both domestic and mortuary practices. A morphological investigation of First Intermediate Period bread and beer forms illustrates a dual arc of economic change beginning in the late Old Kingdom running in tandem to a thread of social stability uniting the First Intermediate Period with the Middle Kingdom

Aesthetics · Ceramic · Metallurgy · Period (music · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Materials Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology

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