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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
The articles and guides here connect case studies with methods: layers and dating, critical reading, pottery, coins, inscriptions and raw materials. Choose a question, then follow the sources and related reading. Checking an abstract is never presented as reviewing an entire paper.
Most known sites of the Badarian Period (about 4500-3800 BCE) are cemeteries in the low desert. According to the Met's timeline they reveal a "formal burial program"; what the source does not infer from them matters as much.
The Met's timeline presents Hierakonpolis, "far to the south", as the largest population center known in Naqada I (about 3800-3650 BCE). Three statements from the same source, and a question it leaves open: why the south.
The Met's timeline states that a representation of a human face from Merimde Beni Salama in the Delta "is the earliest known example of sculpture from ancient Egypt". What the sentence tells us, and what it lacks for any discussion of the figure itself.
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