Before the Pyramids
Subtitle: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
By: edited by Emily Teeter
Contributors: Teeter, Emily
Series: Oriental Institute Museum publications -- 33
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781885923820
Subjects: History; Civilization; Exhibitions; University of Chicago; University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Museum; Prehistoric Antiquities; Prehistoric peoples; Antiquities; Kultur
Other titles: Origins of Egyptian civilization
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... March 28-December 31, 2011"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Gil J. Stein; title: The early chronology of Egypt --; title: Introduction  -- Emily Teeter; title: List of contributors --; title: Map of principal areas and sites --; title: Sequence dating and Predynastic chronology  -- Stan Hendrickx; title: Petrie and the discovery of earliest Egypt  -- Patricia Spencer; title: Political organization of Egypt in the Predynastic Period  -- Branislav Andelkovic; title: Hierakonpolis  -- Renee Friedman; title: The Predynastic cultures of the Nile delta  -- Yunn Tristant and Beatrix Midant-Reynes; title: The Predynastic/Early Dynastic Period at Tell el-Farkha  -- Krzystof M. Cialowicz; title: Material culture of the Predynastic Period  -- Alice Stevenson; title: Iconography of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods  -- Stan Hendrickx; title: Relations between Egypt and Nubia in the Naqada Period  -- Bruce B. Williams; title: Crafts and craft specialization  -- Stan Hendrickx; title: The invention of writing in Egypt  -- David Wengrow; title: Early interaction between peoples of the Nile Valley and the southern Levant  -- Eliot Braun; title: The rise of the Egyptian state  -- E. Christiana Kohler; title: Tomb U-j : a royal burial of Dynasty 0 at Abydos  -- Gunter Dreyer; title: The first kings of Egypt : the Abydos evidence  -- Laurel Bestock; title: The Narmer Palette : a new interpretation  -- David O'Connor; title: Catalog of objects. The physical setting : the Nile Valley (Contact and trade ; Sequence dating) ; The culture of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt (Predynastic pottery of upper Egypt ; Stone work) ; Early Dynastic religion (Gods ; Votive offerings) ; Rise of the state (The battlefield palette ; Statue of King Khasekhem ; The invention of writing ; Symbols of royal power ; Objects from the royal tombs ; Subsidiary burials of the First Dynasty) --; title: Concordance of museum registration numbers --; title: Checklist of the exhibit.