Showing The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c. 10,000 to 2,650 BC by David Wengrow

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 556 Publisher: Camidge. University Press In this fresh for the authoritative and compelling Survey of the archeology of early Egypt David Wengrow offers. a new interpretation of the emergence of withfarming economies and the Dynastic STATE. C .10.000 to 2.650 BC. Exploring key themes such as the nature of state power. kingship and the inception of writing. Wengrow illuminates prehistoric social development along the Nile through comparison with neighbouring regions. Detailed analysis of the archaeological record reveals the interplay between large- scale processes of economic and political change and intimate material practices through which social identities were transformed. focussing upon ritual treatments of the dead. Employing rich empirical data and engaging critically with anthropological theory and the history of archaeological though...