Title Egypt at its origins : studies in memory of Barbara Adams : proceedings of the international conference "Origin of the State, Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt," Krakow, 28th August - 1st September 2002 / edited by S. Hendrickx ... [et al.]
Publication Info Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2004
Location Call Number Status
 Egyptian Art  DT60 .E297 2004    REQUESTABLE
 Offsite  DT60 .E297 2004    REQUESTABLE
Description xxx, 1142 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Series Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 138
Contents Preface / Renee Friedman and Stan Hendrickx -- Tributes to Barbara Adams -- Bibliography of Barbara Adams -- Locality HK6 at Hierakonpolis : results of the 2000 field season / Alvaro Figueiredo -- Human representation in the predynastic period : the locality HK6 statue in context / Nicola Harrington -- The HK6 statue fragments / Helena F. Jaeschke -- Animal burials and food offerings at the elite cemetery HK6 of Hierakonpolis / Wim Van Neer, Veerle Linseele and Renee F. Friedman -- Elephants at Hierakonpolis / Renee F. Friedman -- A case for reconstructing pottery in the field / Richard L. Jaeschke -- Urban development at Hierakonpolis and the stone industry of square 10N5W / Thomas Hikade -- The predynastic cemetery of el-Adwa / Fathy Abu Zeid -- El Abadiya 2, a Naqada 1 site near Danfiq, upper Egypt / Pierre M. Vermeersch, Wim Van Neer and Stan Hendrickx -- Plant remains from predynastic El Abadiya-2 (Naqada area, upper Egypt) / Rene T. J. Cappers, Thijs Van Thuyne and Laila Sikking -- On the origins of memphis : the new excavations in the early dynastic necropolis at Helwan / E. Christiana Kohler -- The pottery from operation 3 / tomb I at Helwan / Jane Smythe -- Rescue excavations in the predynastic settlement of Maadi / Ulrich Hartung -- Tell el-Farkha and explorations of the central Kom 1987-2002 / Marek Chlodnicki -- Tell el-Farkha 2001-2002 : excavations at the Western Kom / Krzysztof M. Cialowicz -- Magnetic survey at Tell el-Farkha or how to interpret a magnetic map / Tomasz Herbich -- The graves of Tell el-Farkha (seasons 2001-2002) / Renata Ablamowicz, Joanna Debowska and Mariusz Jucha -- Pottery tradition at Tell el-Farkha / Agnieszka Maczynska -- Stone implements from Tell el-Farkha / Maciej Jordeczka -- Kom el-Khilgan. A new site of the predynastic period in lower Egypt. The 2002 campaign / Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Francois Briois, Nathalie Buchez, Morgan De Dapper, Sylvie Duchesne, Bruno Fabry, Christiane Hochstrasser-Petit, Luc Staniaszek and Yann Tristant -- Protodynastic storage jars from the area of Sheikh Zuweid, northern Sinai : another entrepot along the way(s)-of-Horus? / Edwin C. M. van den Brink and Ram Gophna -- Egypt and the southern Levant in the late 4th millennium B.C.E. : shifting patterns of interaction / Eliot Braun -- Predynastic and early dynastic antiquities from Edfu in the national museum in Warsaw / Joanna Aksamit -- The upper Egyptian commonwealth : a crucial phase of the state formation process / Branislav Andelkovic -- Problemes de lecture et d'ecriture : les noms des polities nagadeennes / Alain Anselin -- Experimental studies on the firing methods of black-topped pottery in predynastic Egypt / Masahiro Baba and Masanori Saito -- First dynasty jewellery and amulets : finds from the royal Naqada Tomb : proposed reconstructions, comparisons and interpretations / Tine Bagh -- A bladelet core from Tell el-Fara'in - Buto and the origin of obsidian in the Buto-Maadi culture of lower Egypt / Laurent Bavay, Dina Faltings, Luc Andre and Thierry De Putter -- The funerary objects from the early dynastic royal tombs at Abydos in the royal museums of art and history in Brussels / Stijn Bielen -- Neutron activation analysis of predynastic to early dynastic pottery from Minshat Abu Omar, Hemamieh and Armant / Janine Bourriau, Alfredo Bellido, Nick Bryan and Vincent Robinson -- The study of a group of ceramics at the end of the Naqada period and socio-economic considerations / Nathalie Buchez -- In the beginning was the war : conflict and the emergence of the Egyptian state / Marcelo Campagno -- The domain of Semerkhet / Eva-Maria Engel -- Review insights on development of archaeobotanical and palaeo-ethnobotanical studies in Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy -- Funerary sacrifice of animals in the Egyptian predynastic period / Diane Victoria Flores -- Les peintures sur vases Nagada I - Nagada II : nouvelle approche semiologique / Gwenola Graff -- Between man and goddess : the fear of nothingness & dismemberment / Fekri A. Hassan -- A theriomorphic predynastic stone jar and hippopotamus symbolism / Stan Hendrickx and David Depraetere -- A double-powerful device for regeneration : the Abu Zaidan knife handle reconsidered / Dirk Huyge -- Hierakonpolis and Memphis in predynastic tradition / David Jeffreys -- Elephants standing on hills or the oldest name of elephantine / Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano -- Minshat Abu Omar : aspects of the analysis of a cemetery / Karla Kroeper -- An analysis of the theriomorphic representations on combs and hairpins from the predynastic period / Candelaria Martin del Rio Alvarez and Eduardo Almenara Rosales -- Egyptian predynastic ivories decorated with anthropomorphic motifs / Edyta Maria Nowak -- Settlement patterns and cultural change in the predynastic period / Diana Craig Patch -- Reasons for the predynastic - early dynastic transition in Egypt : geological and climatic evidence / Maciej Pawlikowski -- Representing the human body on late predynastic and early dynastic labels / Kathryn E. Piquette -- Second dynasty ink inscriptions from Saqqara paralleled in the Abydos material from the royal museums of art and history (RMAH) in Brussels / Ilona Regulski -- News about the Clayton rings : long distance desert travellers during Egypt's predynastic / Heiko Riemer -- The application of mortuary data to the problem of social transformation in the delta from the terminal predynastic to the early dynastic period / Joanne M. Rowland -- Salvaging the past : analysis of first dynasty jar contents in the Petrie museum of Egyptian archaeology with an appendix by Benjamin Stern / Margaret Serpico -- Development of specialisation in the Nile Valley during the 4th millennium B.C. / Izumi H. Takamiya -- Some comments on the predynastic cemetery at El Mahasna / Angela P. Thomas -- The royal cemetery of the early dynastic period at Saqqara and the second dynasty royal tombs / Joris van Wetering -- Images, human bodies and the ritual construction of memory in late predynastic Egypt / David Wengrow and John Baines -- Further excavation amongst the Hierakonpolis Ivories / Helen Whitehouse -- Before the pyramids : early developments in Egyptian royal funerary ideology / Toby A. H. Wilkinson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subjects Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt -- Congresses
Egypt -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. -- Congresses
Keyword Archaeology Egyptology
Additional Authors Hendrickx, Stan.
Adams, Barbara, 1945-2002.
Series Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 138.
Material Type Festschriften.
Conference papers and proceedings.
ISBN 9042914696 (alk. paper)
OCLC 54543528