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Predynastic Egyptian Pottery

Predynastic Egyptian Pottery. Image courtesy of the Petrie Museum, UCL. What is Predynastic Egypt?. Essentially, it is Egypt before the time of the pyramids It was a collection of different cultures and provinces One culture would eventually dominate, helping Egypt to unify.

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Predynastic Egyptian Pottery

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  1. Predynastic Egyptian Pottery Image courtesy of the Petrie Museum, UCL YourHistory AGripton2013

  2. What is PredynasticEgypt? • Essentially, it is Egypt before the time of the pyramids • It was a collection of different cultures and provinces • One culture would eventually dominate, helping Egypt to unify YourHistory AGripton2013

  3. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie • “The Father of Egyptology” • Worked in Predynastic cemeteries at Naqada • Flinders Petrie established sequence dating • He arranged pots in a relative chronological order (“classes”) based on the resemblances of the types. Each was assigned a number between 30 and 80. He started at 30 because he presumed that older pots would be found in the future. • System still used by archaeologists today Image from GoogleMaps YourHistory AGripton2013

  4. Petrie’s Pottery Classes • White Cross‐lined (C) • Black Top (B) • Wavy Handled (W) • Red Polished (P) • Fancy (F) • Black Incised (N) • Decorated (D) • Rough (R) YourHistory AGripton2013

  5. Petrie & Me • Look carefully at the following pictures • Try to match each picture with one of Petrie’s ‘classes’ • Explain why you think it is that class • Try and put them in the right order of time/when they were made YourHistory AGripton2013

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  14. Why is pottery important in the Predynastic Period? YourHistory AGripton2013

  15. What does pottery tell us about Predynastic Egyptian Society? YourHistory AGripton2013

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