Format:
1 online resource (511 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118896112
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Egyptian Archaeology: Definitions and History -- 1.1 Introduction: Ancient Egyptian Civilization and Its Prehistoric Predecessors -- 1.2 Egyptian Archaeology -- 1.3 Egyptology -- 1.4 History of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology -- 1.5 Archaeological Methods -- 1.6 Archaeological Theory -- 1.7 Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Archaeologists in Fiction and Films -- Chapter 2 Hieroglyphs, Language, and Pharaonic Chronology -- 2.1 Language of the Ancient Egyptians -- 2.2 Origins and Development of Egyptian Writing -- 2.3 Scripts and Media of Writing -- 2.4 Signs, Structure, and Grammar -- 2.5 Literacy in Ancient Egypt -- 2.6 Textual Studies -- 2.7 Use of Texts in Egyptian Archaeology -- 2.8 Historical Outline of Pharaonic Egypt -- 2.9 The Egyptian Civil Calendar, King Lists, and Calculation of Pharaonic Chronology -- Chapter 3 The Environmental Background to Pharaonic Civilization: Geography, Environment, Agriculture, and Natural Resources -- 3.1 Geography: Terms and Place Names -- 3.2 Environmental Setting -- 3.3 Environmental and Other Problems for Archaeology in Egypt -- 3.4 The Seasons and the Agricultural System -- 3.5 The Ancient Egyptian Diet -- 3.6 Other Useful Animals and Plants -- 3.7 Building Materials -- 3.8 Other Resources: Clays, Stones, Minerals -- 3.9 Imported Materials -- Chapter 4 Egyptian Prehistory: The Paleolithic and Neolithic -- Paleolithic -- 4.1 Paleolithic Cultures in Egypt -- 4.2 Lower Paleolithic -- 4.3 Middle Paleolithic -- 4.4 Upper Paleolithic -- 4.5 Late Paleolithic -- 4.6 Epipaleolithic (Final Paleolithic) -- Neolithic -- 4.7 Saharan Neolithic -- 4.8 Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Faiyum A and Lower Egypt.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780470673362
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780470673362
Language:
English
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