Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt
Introduction

This site has been built with the intention of pulling together information about Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt, presenting it in a way which is easy to absorb and navigate. For more detailed information about the goals and intentions of the site, please see the Introduction page. This is very much a work in progress, but I am adding to it on a very regular basis. Pages are in preparation and will be uploaded as soon as they are finished. 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.

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

Andie Byrnes
andie@easynet.co.uk
 

My other websites:
www.egyptology.blogspot.com (Egyptology News)
www.faiyum.com (Predynastic of the Faiyum Depression)
www.egypt.cd2.com (Egyptology Portal)
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~andie (Photos of the Western Desert, Faiyum, Cairo, Eastern Desert and Luxor)
 

UPDATES:
Site Last Updated December 5th 2006 (see below for details of the most recent changes):

Section

Subsection/s
 

Date Updated

Comment

 

Appendices

Glossaries: 
Geo-environmental
Glossary

29th November 2005

Updated

Through Time

Prehistory: Palaeolithic

29th November 2005

Updated the Upper Palaeolithic

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Prehistory:  Epipalaeolithic

29th November 2005

Updated the Dakhleh Masara

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Early Predynastic - Sheikh Muftah

28th November 2005

Updated the Dakhleh Sheikh Muftah Unit with information from McDonald 2001

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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

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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

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Prehistoric: Palaeolithic

19th July 2005

Updated: Late Palaeolithic (Elkabian and Makhadman)

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Prehistoric:
Neolithic

19th July 2005

Updated: Djara and Abu Gerara, Early Sahran Neolithic, Late Saharan Neolithic
Added: Farafra Neolithic

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Prehistoric: Epipalaeolithic

19th July 2005

Added: Farafra Epipalaeolithic

Bibliography

n/a

18th July 2005

Updated with newest references used

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Prehistoric: Palaeolithic

18th July 2005

Updated: Aterian

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Prehistoric: Neolithic

18th July 2005

Updated: Djara/Abu Gerara, and Gilf Kebir

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Prehistoric: Epiplaaeolithic

18th July 2005

Updated: Gilf Kebir and “Other” (Djara)

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Prehistoric: Neolithic

17th July 2005

Added: Gilf Kebir

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Early Predynastic

15th July 2005

Updated: Sheikh Muftah (Dakhleh)

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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.

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Prehistoric: Neolithic

14th July 2005

Added: Eastern Desert Neolithic (Tree Shelter and initial notes about Sodmein Cave)
Updated: Tarifian

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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.

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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

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Late Predynastic

11th July 2005

Naqada III A and B completely updated

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Prehistory:
Neolithic

11th July 2005

Djara Neolithic added and Dakhleh Bashendi Neolithic considerably expanded

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Prehistory: Epipalaeolithic

11th July 2005

Dakhleh Masara Added

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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.

 

All text and images on this site are the copyright of Andrea Byrnes andie@easynet.co.uk 2003, 2004, 2005 unless otherwise stated