Egypt Before The Pharaohs by Michael Allen Hoffman
The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization
A concise archaeological and cultural survey of the Nile Valley prior to dynastic rule, tracing human settlement from the Paleolithic and Neolithic through the Predynastic cultures that set the stage for state formation; it synthesizes pottery, burial practices, settlement patterns, art, and technological change to reconstruct social organization and ideological developments while challenging simplistic diffusionist explanations and emphasizing indigenous processes in the emergence of complex society.
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