Teeter: Before the Pyramids

Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization

http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oimp/oimp33.html 

Edited by Emily Teeter

2011

This catalog for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum
presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic
Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the
state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography,
and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis, and the Delta,
were contributed by leading scholars in the field. The catalog features
129 Predynastic and Early Dynastic objects, most from the Oriental
Institute's collection, that illustrate the environmental setting,
Predynastic and Early Dynastic culture, religion, and the royal burials
at Abydos. This volume will be a standard reference and a staple for
classroom use.


Table of Contents 
The Chronology of Early Egypt
Introduction. 
Emily Teeter 
List of Contributors
Map of Principal Areas and Sites
Sequence Dating and Predynastic Chronology. 
Stan Hendrickx 
Petrie and the Discovery of Earliest Egypt. 
Patricia Spencer 
Political Organization of Egypt in the Predynastic Period. 
Branislav
Andelkovic 
Hierakonpolis. 
Renée Friedman 
The Predynastic Cultures of the Nile Delta. 
Yann Tristant and Béatrix
Midant-Reynes 
The Predynastic/Early Dynastic Period at Tell el-Farkha. 
Krzysztof M.
Cialowicz 
Material Culture of the Predynastic Period. 
Alice Stevenson 
Iconography of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods. 
Stan Hendrickx 
Relations between Egypt and Nubia in the Naqada Period. 
Bruce B. Williams 
Crafts and Craft Specialization. 
Stan Hendrickx 
The Invention of Writing in Egypt. 
David Wengrow 
Early Interaction between Peoples of the Nile Valley and the Southern
Levant. 
Eliot Braun 
The Rise of the Egyptian State. 
E. Christiana Köhler 
Tomb U-j: A Royal Burial of Dynasty 0 at Abydos. 
Günter Dreyer 
The First Kings of Egypt: The Abydos Evidence. 
Laurel Bestock 
The Narmer Palette: A New Interpretation. 
David O'Connor 
Catalog of Objects
Concordance of Museum Registration Numbers
Checklist of the Exhibit
Bibliography