EMILY TEETER (ed.), Before the Pyramids. The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2011. 288 pp. ISBN 978–1–885923– 82–0. U$D 39,95
Edited by Emily Teeter, Research Associate and Coordinator of Special Exhibit at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Before the Pyramids follows an exhibition of 120 Predynastic and Early Dynastic objects belonging to the Oriental Institute Museum. The book is organised in two s...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Políticas y de la Comunicación. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente
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| Sumario: | Edited by Emily Teeter, Research Associate and Coordinator of Special
Exhibit at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Before the
Pyramids follows an exhibition of 120 Predynastic and Early Dynastic
objects belonging to the Oriental Institute Museum. The book is organised in
two sections. The first part comprises a collection of sixteen articles compiled
by the world’s most prominent researchers investigating the Predynastic
period, and discusses the phase preceding the formation of the state in Egypt;
the second part of the book is dedicated to a catalogue of selected items from
the exhibition. Other than the will to display a part of the very large collection
of Predynastic objects hosted in the Oriental Institute of Chicago, the aim of
the exhibition and the book was to divulge information about the Predynastic
period to a wider audience as, it is claimed in the introduction of the volume,
knowledge on this phase of Egyptian history is almost exclusively the domain
of specialists. In the endeavour to achieve this objective, the editor has collected a remarkably rich variety of articles able to provide quite an exhaustive
picture of the elements which brought to the emergence of the Egyptian state.
The papers address themes such as the invention of writing, the development
of art, the rise of social stratification and so on. Despite the diversity of the
articles presented in Before the Pyramids there is one theme which returns in
several papers: Sir Flinders Petrie and his discoveries and research on the
Predynastic period. |
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