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The Cultures of Prehistoric Egypt

Elise J. Baumgartel

出版	Greenwood Press, 1981
主題	History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / EgyptHistory / WorldSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN	03132252499780313225246
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QNWCAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Dr. Baumgartel and the Griffith Institute are both to be congratulated that this book--conceived before the war--should be published before conditions have returned to normal. These books are the result of wide reading and of original study of objects from excavations of predynastic sites, particularly those in University College, London, many of them hitherto unpublished. It is no fault of the author, but only of fate, which has confined her so much to work in museums and granted her so little opportunity to work in the field, that it suffers from being too much a composition of theory based on the museum objects within her ken. But for all that it is a valuable book which sheds new light on the Predynastic period. The author begins by asking the question 'Was the birthplace of Egyptian culture in the Nile delta?' She then reviews the earliest phases of Egyptian culture, examining pottery and metal work to argue that these artifacts were created by an Asiatic people who invaded the Nile valley and set in motion the development which led to the historic Egyptian state. This is a book to be read and thought about by all who are interested in the problems of the origins of the Egyptian Predynastic, that fascinating period when civilization was yet young; and the labor of producing it will have been well worthwhile if it inspires new field-work in localities likely to produce solutions for some of those problems.