POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AS REFLECTED BY BURIAL RITES OBSERVED IN THE PROTODYNASTIC PART OF THE CEMETERY IN TELL EL-FARKHA Cover Image

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AS REFLECTED BY BURIAL RITES OBSERVED IN THE PROTODYNASTIC PART OF THE CEMETERY IN TELL EL-FARKHA
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AS REFLECTED BY BURIAL RITES OBSERVED IN THE PROTODYNASTIC PART OF THE CEMETERY IN TELL EL-FARKHA

Author(s): Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Tell el-Farkha cemetery; Protodynastic graves; social differentiation

Summary/Abstract: Graves associated with the Protodynastic period from Tell el-Farkha belonged to a wealthy community, members of which were buried as a rule in diversified structures with well arranged sets of offerings. Typical features of these graves enabled a classication into three categories reflecting social dierentiation. The distribution pattern of these burials describes the political and economic transformation within the Protodynastic community which inhabited the settlement of Tell el-Farkha and, in a broader sense, all of early Egyptian society at the origins of its history.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XX
  • Page Range: 457-466
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English