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Egypt at its origins 3 : proceedings of the third international conference "Origin of the State, Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", London, 27th July-1st August 2008 / edited by Renée Friedman and Peter N. Fiske
A. SETTLEMENT ARCHAEOLOGY -- Evidence for early ritual activity in the Predynastic settlement at el-Mahasna / David A. Anderson -- Adaima (Upper Egypt): The stages of state development from the point of view of a ̀village community' / Nathalie Buchez -- The Central Kom of Tell el-Farkha: 1000 years of history (c. 3600--2600 BC) / Marek Chlodnicki -- Miscellaneous artefacts from Zawaydah (Petrie's South Town, Naqada) / Grazia Antonella Di Pietro -- Origins of monumental architecture: Recent excavations at Hierakonpolis HK29B and HK25 / Thomas Hikade -- Life in the cemetery: Late Predynastic settlement at el-Amra / Tomasz Herbich -- Cultural and natural environment in the eastern Nile Delta: A geoarchaeological project at Tell el-Iswid (South) / Beatrix Midant-Reynes -- B. MORTUARY ARCHAEOLOGY -- The elite Predynastic cemetery at Hierakonpolis: 2009--2010 update / Veerle Linseele -- Burial practices of the Final Neolithic pastoralists at Gebel Ramlah, Western Desert of Egypt / Fred Wendorf -- The tomb of King Ninetjer at Saqqara / Claudia M. Lacher -- Egyptian engineering in the Early Dynastic period: The sites of Saqqara and Helwan / Angela Sophia La Loggia -- Sepulchral architecture in detail: New data from Tell el-Farkha / Joanna Debowska-Ludwin -- A new Archaic period cemetery at Abydos / Yasser Mahmoud Hossein -- The new Archaic period cemetery at Abydos: Osteological report / Ahmed Mohamed Gabr -- Investigating a new necropolis of Dynasty 2 at Saqqara / Ilona Regulski -- New excavations for an old cemetery: Preliminary results of the Abu Rawash project on the M Cemetery (Dynasty 1) / Jane Smythe -- Cranial variability and population diversity at Hierakonpolis / Joseph Powell -- C. OBJECT STUDIES -- Twinned hippopotamus figurines of the Predynastic period / Xavier Droux -- The Naqada I tombs H17 and H41 at el-Mahasna: A visual reconstruction / Stan Hendrickx -- Aurian silver and silver beads from tombs at el-Mahasna, Egypt / Alex von Bohlen -- Architectural elements on Decorated pottery and the ritual presentation of desert animals / Stan Hendrickx -- Nile mud and clay objects from the Predynastic Cemetery U at Abydos (Umm el-Qa'ab) / Ulrich Hartung -- Tusks and tags: Between the hippopotamus and the Naqada plant / Merel Eyckerman -- Analysis of Predynastic ostrich eggshells from Hierakonpolis and beyond / Renee F. Friedman -- A peculiar pottery shape from Abydos / Vera Muller -- What your hair says about you: Changes in hairstyles as an indicator of state formation processes / G.J. Tassie -- D. TECHNOLOGY: POTTERY AND LITHIC PRODUCTION -- Pottery production at Hierakonpolis in the Naqada II period: Towards a reconstruction of the firing technique / Masahiro Baba -- Raw materials supply and lithic technology: A new look at de Morgan's collection from Hierakonpolis (Musee d'Archeologie nationale, France) / Emmanuelle Courboin -- Nabta Playa Black-topped pottery: Technological innovation and social change / Eman Khalifa -- The lithic material from the Sheikh Muftah desert camp site El Kharafish 02/5, Western Desert of Egypt / Heiko Riemer -- Variations in lithic production at Hierakonpolis: A preliminary report from the excavation of HK11C Squares A6--A7 / Hitoshi Endo -- E. EARLY TEMPLES -- Local traditions in early Egyptian temples / Richard Bussmann -- The Early Dynastic administrative-cultic, centre at Tell el-Farkha / Krzysztof M. Cialowicz -- An early cult centre at Abusir-Saqqara? Recent discoveries at a rocky outcrop in north-west Saqqara / Nozomu Kawai -- F. INTERACTIONS NORTH AND SOUTH -- A tale of two funerary traditions: The Predynastic cemetery at Kom el-Khilgan (eastern Delta) / Beatrix Midant-Reynes -- Egypt and Nubia in the 5th-4th millennia BC: A view from the First Cataract and its surroundings / Maria Carmela Gatto -- The Lower Egyptian-Naqada transition: A view from Tell el-Farkha / Agnieszka Maczynsa -- G. CHRONOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS -- The chronology workshop / Stan Hendrickx -- The chronology of Naqada I tombs in the Predynastic Cemetery U at Abydos / Rita Hartmann -- A reconsideration of Predynastic chronology: The contribution of Adaima / Nathalie Buchez -- The development of pottery production during the Early Dynastic period and the beginning of the Old Kingdom: A view from Tell el-Farkha / Mariusz A. Jucha -- South Levantine Early Bronze Age chronological correlations with Egypt in light of the Narmer serekhs from Tel Erani and Arad: New interpretations / Eliot Braun -- H. POTMARK RESEARCH -- The international potmark workshop. Progressing from Toulouse to London in the study of Predynastic and Early Dynastic potmarks / Edwin C.M. van den Brink -- The corpus of pre-firing potmarks from Adaima (Upper Egypt) / Gaelle Breand -- The corpus of potmarks from Tarkhan / Lisa Mawdsley -- Potmarks from Early Dynastic Buto and Old Kingdom Giza: Their occurrence and economic significance / Anna Wodzinska -- I. SCRIPT AS MATERIAL CULTURE -- The phonetic intention: Ideograms and phonograms in potmarks of Dynasties 0--2 / Alain Anselin -- The sun-religion in the Thinite age: Evidence and political significance / Josep Cervello-Autuori -- The Wadi of the Horus Qa-a: A tableau of royal ritual power in the Theban Western Desert / John Coleman Darnell -- Hieroglyphic writing through the reign of Aha / Elise V. MacArthur -- J. THEORETICAL APPROACHES -- Factors of state formation in Protodynastic Egypt / Branislav Andelkovic -- Kinship, concentration of population and the emergence of the state in the Nile Valley / Marcelo Campagno -- The development and nature of inequality in early Egypt / Juan Jose Castillos -- Primary and secondary social evolutions from the Nile Valley to the northern Negev in the mid-4th millennium BC / Frederic Guyot