Issue 13: November 2009
Editorial
BMSAES 13 contains 11 papers submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, which was held at the British Museum from 27 July to 1 August 2008.
This selection from the more than 40 papers that will ultimately appear in the full proceedings “Egypt at its Origins 3” (Peeters’ Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta series), touches on a wide range of topics and recent discoveries pertaining to this formative period is Egyptian history.
Potmarks were the subject of a special workshop during the conference and particular emphasis has been placed on them here in order to make these studies available as quickly as possible in the hope of generating further discussion of and interest in these still enigmatic markings. For further information please visit www.potmark-Egypt.com
In addition to prompt distribution, the 11 papers published herein also benefit from BMSAES’s online format, which has enabled us to reproduce numerous, high-quality images in full colour.
In particular, this format has made it possible to include the stunning photographs of the finds from Tell el-Farkha illustrating the contribution by Krzysztof Ciałowicz who delivered the 2008 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology.
The papers have been edited by Renée Friedman and Liam McNamara, both for this online publication and the eventual hard copy publication. Elisabeth O’Connell has edited the papers to conform to BMSAES style guidelines.
The full conference program and abstracts of papers presented are available at: www.origins3.org.uk/index.html
Renée Friedman
Elisabeth R. O’Connell
Contents
Pottery production at Hierakonpolis
during the Naqada II period: Toward a reconstruction of the firing
technique
Masahiro Baba
Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
South Levantine Early Bronze Age
chronological correlations with Egypt in light of the Narmer
serekhs from Tel Erani and Arad: New interpretations
Eliot Braun
W. F. Albright Institute of
Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel and Centre de Recherche
Français de Jérusalem, Israël
The corpus of pre-firing potmarks from
Adaïma (Upper Egypt)
Gaëlle Bréand
EHESS-CRPPM, CNRS UMR 5608 “TRACES,” Toulouse, France
The development and nature of inequality
in early Egypt
Juan José Castillos
Uruguayan Institute of
Egyptology, Montevideo, Uruguay
The Early Dynastic administrative-cultic
centre at Tell el-Farkha
Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz
Institute of
Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Egypt and Nubia in the 5th–4th millennia
BC: A view from the First Cataract and its surroundings
Maria Carmela Gatto
Yale University, New
Haven, USA
Burial practices of the Final Neolithic
pastoralists at Gebel Ramlah, Western Desert of Egypt
Michał Kobusiewicz, Jacek Kabaciński, Romuald Schild, Joel
D. Iris and Fred Wendorf
Egyptian engineering in the Early
Dynastic period: The sites of Saqqara and Helwan
Angela La Loggia
Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia
The corpus of potmarks from
Tarkhan
Lisa Mawdsley
Centre for Archaeology and
Ancient History, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Investigating a new Dynasty 2 necropolis
at South Saqqara
Ilona Regulski
Netherlands-Flemish Institute
in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Potmarks from Early Dynastic Buto and
Old Kingdom Giza: Their occurrence and economic
significance
Anna Wodzińska
Institute of Archaeology,
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland