Helwan Points in the Egyptian Neolithic

Shirai, Noriyuki

doi:10.5356/orient1960.37.121

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“…Helwan points have also been found in the Faiyum and at the Neolithic site of Merimde Beni Salama. 47 Two phases of the Epipalaeolithic can be identified in Egypt and the Sudan, an early phase (8,600-7,500 BC) and a late phase (7,500 to 5,500 BC), with a transitional phase from the Late Palaeolithic (10,600-8,600 BC). From 11,500 cal BP the deserts of Egypt started to become savannahs, with various sources of water, and several game animals such as gazelle and hare, along with edible vegetation such as sorghum.…”

Section: The Lithic and Ceramic Findsmentioning

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Prehistoric Sites along the Edge of the Western Nile Delta: Report on the Results of the Imbaba Prehistoric Survey 2013–14

Rowland¹,

Tassie²

2014

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

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In the winter/spring of 2013 a new project was initiated by the lead author in the region of Merimde Beni Salama: the Imbaba Governorate Prehistoric Survey.1 This inter-disciplinary survey focussed along the western Nile Delta desert edge, from the registered archaeological site of Merimde Beni Salama in the south, northwards to the modern town of el-Khatatbah and the el-Ahmes quarry area. This survey developed from previous research in the region by the EES Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey, when members of the team first visited the region in 2008.2 A second study season was also undertaken in in the winter of 2014,3 and the third in autumn 2014; the results of the latter are not included here.

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Section: The Lithic and Ceramic Findsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prehistoric Sites along the Edge of the Western Nile Delta: Report on the Results of the Imbaba Prehistoric Survey 2013–14

Rowland¹,

Tassie²

2014

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

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The Neolithic and ‘Pastoralism’ Along the Nile: A Dissenting View

Salvatori

Usai

2019

J World Prehist

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Time to Go Beyond Chrono-Stratigraphy: The (EPPNB) Aswadian Culture of the Southern Levant

Gopher

2024

paleorient

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Abstract. Contrary to current trends, I strive in this paper to uphold culture history as a valid conceptual and analytical framework of archaeological analysis and define Neolithic cultures as representatives of specific past socio-cultural groups. Promoting this claim, I dwell on the cultural makeup of the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (EPPNB) period in the southern Levant and make a case for the Aswadian culture. Following a review of the Aswadian’s spatiotemporal and material culture features, the paper proceeds to propose that it may be split further into subcultures, making way for a more detailed understanding of its socio-cultural makeup. Notwithstanding gaps in our knowledge, I will draw on the Aswadian’s distinctiveness from other entities—the preceding PPNA Sultanian, the EPPNB of the northern Levant, and the very recently defined Badia culture of Jordan—to argue that it be considered a full-fledged cultural entity. Notably, the position of the Aswadian culture within the broader context of the Levantine Neolithization will also be considered. I will argue that, notwithstanding decisive, innovative trends in the north Levantine EPPNB, the Aswadian culture continued to maintain a hunter-gatherer way of life, resisting the incorporation of domesticates (plants and animals) into its economy, which do not appear in the southern Levant before the very end of the 11th millennium cal. BP and later in the Middle PPNB.

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Helwan Points in the Egyptian Neolithic

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Prehistoric Sites along the Edge of the Western Nile Delta: Report on the Results of the Imbaba Prehistoric Survey 2013–14

Prehistoric Sites along the Edge of the Western Nile Delta: Report on the Results of the Imbaba Prehistoric Survey 2013–14

The Neolithic and ‘Pastoralism’ Along the Nile: A Dissenting View

Time to Go Beyond Chrono-Stratigraphy: The (EPPNB) Aswadian Culture of the Southern Levant

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