AMS Radiocarbon Dates from the Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery, N7000, at Naga-ed-Dêr

Savage, Stephen H.

doi:10.1006/jasc.1997.0246

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“…Then, by recalibrating a series of 58 published dates from Upper Egypt and using the same methods to combine the results Savage (1998: Table 4, Figure 5) suggested that each of Hassan's 14 C-based periods in the Predynastic could be divided into two smaller phases (EP I and II, MP I and II etc.). A comparison of the four use phases from Cemetery N7000 to the recalibrated phasing from Upper Egypt showed remarkable correspondence (Savage 1998: 243-47, Figure 2): Naga-ed-Dêr Phase 1 corresponds to the Middle Predynastic II, Phase 2 to the Figure 1 Results of the CA-based seriation of 143 graves from Cemetery N7000 (Savage, 1995(Savage, , 1998 Late Predynastic I, Phase 3 to the Late Predynastic II, and Naga-ed-Dêr Phase 4 dated to the Terminal Predynastic 1 (thus helping fill a gap in Hassan's 14 C chronology from Upper Egypt).…”

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Towards an AMS Radiocarbon Chronology of Predynastic Egyptian Ceramics

Savage¹

2001

Radiocarbon

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The wide and varied connections between Israel and Egypt during the Early Bronze Age/Predynastic are frequently calibrated through ceramics that depend to a large degree on two seriation methods developed for Predynastic Egypt. Petrie's seriation technique and Kaiser's Stufe dating method utilize whole forms from mortuary contexts. Because of the ways they were developed and deployed in Predynastic research, a logical tautology exists that makes their usage highly problematic. Radiocarbon dating of the Predynastic is vital if we are to untangle existing ceramic chronologies. But up to now, almost all 14C dates have come from domestic contexts where whole vessels are not usually found and which differ significantly from cemeteries in their ceramic assemblages. A 14C-based chronology of whole forms in the Petrie Corpus is thus highly desirable, but has proven elusive until now. Samples of organic materials and Black-Topped Red Ware vessels from over 100 graves in the Predynastic Cemetery, N7000, at Naga-ed-Dêr have recently been submitted for dating with AMS methods, providing the first comprehensive 14C chronology of a Predynastic cemetery. The results are compared to a suite of recalibrated dates from Upper Egyptian Predynastic domestic contexts, which allows the 14C chronology for the region to be further refined. Absolute date ranges for a number of ceramic forms can be estimated for the first time, and results of early analysis are discussed.

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“…As a result of Friedman's (1981) and Savage's (1995Savage's ( , 1997Savage's ( , 1998 efforts considerable progress has been made in establishing a firm chronological foundation in Cemetery N7000. Friedman (1981: Appendix III) estimated Sequence Date ranges and Stufe dates for graves in the cemetery with ceramics.…”

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Towards an AMS Radiocarbon Chronology of Predynastic Egyptian Ceramics

Savage¹

2001

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“…The earliest graves with wood roofs or planks set on edge indicate a desire to form a separate and delimited space for the body and appear just after 3500 BC (Phase 3). Incorporation of additional wooden elements corresponds to an increase in the number of grave goods deposited and the number of architectural elements in graves from Phase 4, about 3340-3100 BC (Savage 1997).…”

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Boat-building and its social context in early Egypt: interpretations from the First Dynasty boat-grave cemetery at Abydos

Ward

2006

Antiquity

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The boat-grave cemetery at Abydos has provided the world's oldest sewn planked hulls, and vivid evidence for the way early Egyptian wooden boats were built. As well as sailing on the Nile, they were designed to be dismantled for carriage over land to the Red Sea. By the mid-fourth millennium BC the ship was a major technical force in the Egyptian political economy as well as an iconic force in ceremonial burial.

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“…Despite the subjectivities inherent in his method, for Petrie it was 'another step toward [prehistoric archaeology] becoming an exact science' (Petrie 1899, 300). Over the subsequent century this desire would find further expression through the medium of spatial analysis (Kaiser 1956;1957), mathematics (Gertzen & Grötschel 2012;Hodson et al 1971;Kendall 1963;1969), chemistry (Hassan 1980;1984;Hassan & Robinson 1987;Libby 1954, 135;Savage 1998;2001a) and computer science (Kemp 1982;Wilkinson 1996). Although these methods each sought to enhance the detail of Egyptian chronology, their primary point of reference frequently remained Petrie's typology or the periods framed within its shadow, and each tried to validate or were validated relative to these.…”

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Telling Times: Time and Ritual in the Realization of the Early Egyptian State

Stevenson

2015

CAJ

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The increasing use of Bayesian-modelled absolute chronologies has met with calls for more sophisticated accounts of not just our perception of archaeological time, but also of past temporal experience. Using a case study of fourth-millennium bc Egypt this article seeks to address this. It is a period that has long been perceived through a detailed relative framework, a legacy of Flinders Petrie's development of seriation. Yet this legacy imparted more than a framework, for its origins within nineteenth-century cultural evolutionism veiled an explanatory apparatus that encourages linear and gradualist narratives of Predynastic development. By setting a new series of absolute dates within a historically informed critique of relative dating it is possible to question previous assumptions concerning tempos of change. This does not obviate relative typologies, however. Rather it encourages us to ask new questions as to what they might represent. It is argued that in evaluating new absolute measurements of time with reference to ritual activity that distinctive temporalities in the transformation of society can be discerned, ones in which world's first territorial state became a social reality for past communities.

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AMS Radiocarbon Dates from the Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery, N7000, at Naga-ed-Dêr

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Towards an AMS Radiocarbon Chronology of Predynastic Egyptian Ceramics

Towards an AMS Radiocarbon Chronology of Predynastic Egyptian Ceramics

Boat-building and its social context in early Egypt: interpretations from the First Dynasty boat-grave cemetery at Abydos

Telling Times: Time and Ritual in the Realization of the Early Egyptian State

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