During this time sickles and microliths are replaced by larger and heavier hunting weapons, which indicate the return to a hunting economy. Possibly what caused the temporary transition to agriculture in 12,500 BCE was a climatic change which forced large game to leave Egypt for some time. The return of animals 2000 years later must have attracted the early settlers back to to their hunting habits. The graves, located inside the settlement rather outside, contain no grave goods. Pottery hand-raised, sometimes with tiny feet of fired clay.
Spouts also appear.
Scholars postulate two loosely organized federations of communities more or less equivalent to the later nomes. Excavated by Frederick Green in 1897 The lord of Hieraconpolis conquered Nubt, becoming the sole ruler of Upper Egypt. The tendency towards political dissolution would manifest itself each time the central authority would show signs of relaxation. A crisis of such kind must have occurred in the transition from the First to the Second Dynasty. Restoration of central power.