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Egypt in It’s African Context:
Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian CivilisationAlain AnselinUniversité des Antilles-Guyane
Abstract
Using primarily linguistic evidence, and taking intoaccount recent archaeology at sites such as Hierakonpolis/Nekhen, as well as the symbolic meaning of objects such as sceptres and headrests in AncientEgyptian and contemporary African cultures, this paper traces the geographical location.
a network of sites of ancient African cultures which could provide cultural patterns, ideological features and theframework for the political organisation of the first kingships of Upper Egypt (Friedman 2002a). In this respect, Egypt and Nubia were also ‘gifts of the deser
In those days, we thought that Egypt was only a gift of the Nile…
In 1974, with the intention of publishing the very first
Histoire Genérale de l’Afrique
(‘General History of Africa’), UNESCO gathered scholars from Africa (Egypt,Sudan, Senegal and Congo), America and Europe in Cairo to participate in the first colloquium linkingAncient Egypt with its continent, Africa. In spite of the high academic quality of the participants, and the critical examination of the iconographic, anthropological and haematological data, the colloquium did not reveal all theanticipated conclusions about the population of AncientEgypt. What was the culprit? Genetic studies, which didn’t come to fruition until after the 1980s. In addition,in those days it was thought that Egypt was simply a giftof the Nile. For what reason? Until the 1980s, there was alack of archaeological excavation in Egypt’s Western Desert. Today, the historical genetics of the Nile Valley,which is at one and the same time the ‘crossroad and refugium’, and the ‘Saharan affinities’ of the Predynastic Egyptians, have begun to be clearly identified (Keita andBoyce 2005).Since the 1980s, and the renewal of the excavations at Kom el-Ahmar (ancient Nekhen/Hierakonpolis) by ateam directed by Michael Hoffman, archaeologists,notably the team .
EGYPT IN ITS AFRICAN CONTEXT
After 7000 BC, Holocene human settlement expanded allover the Eastern Sahara and Sudan ‘fostering thedevelopment of cattle pastoralism’; then, ‘retreatingmonsoonal rains caused the desertification of the Egyptian Sahara at 5300BC’ (Sadig 2009, 93). During two millennia, the Saharan populations were forced tomigrate to ecological refuges such as the desert oases andthe ‘linear oasis’ of the Nile Valley, and to the south,from the desert’s western edge in the Chad region and its eastern frontier at the Somalian horn (see Figures 1 and2). ‘The full desert conditions all over Egypt ca.3500[BC] coincided with the first stages of pharaonic civilization in the Nile Valley’ (Sadig 2009, 93).Therefore, the Ancient Egyptians were also the childrenof the desert.
Figure 4. Pottery from the Elephant's tomb, Nekhen Hk24(Naqada I): imported Maadi jar, C -ware bowl and Black-topped beaker (after Friedman 2003b, 16); Nubian jarfrom Hk43 (Naqada IIA) (after Gatto 2003, 15b)
Book: Egypt in its African Context
Book: Egypt in its African Context
www.academia.edu/1921955/Book_Egypt_in_its_African_Context
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Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian CivilisationAlain AnselinUniversité des Antilles-Guyane
Abstract
Using primarily linguistic evidence, and taking intoaccount recent archaeology at sites such as Hierakonpolis/Nekhen, as well as the symbolic meaning of objects such as sceptres and headrests in AncientEgyptian and contemporary African cultures, this paper traces the geographical location.
a network of sites of ancient African cultures which could provide cultural patterns, ideological features and theframework for the political organisation of the first kingships of Upper Egypt (Friedman 2002a). In this respect, Egypt and Nubia were also ‘gifts of the deser
In those days, we thought that Egypt was only a gift of the Nile…
In 1974, with the intention of publishing the very first
Histoire Genérale de l’Afrique
(‘General History of Africa’), UNESCO gathered scholars from Africa (Egypt,Sudan, Senegal and Congo), America and Europe in Cairo to participate in the first colloquium linkingAncient Egypt with its continent, Africa. In spite of the high academic quality of the participants, and the critical examination of the iconographic, anthropological and haematological data, the colloquium did not reveal all theanticipated conclusions about the population of AncientEgypt. What was the culprit? Genetic studies, which didn’t come to fruition until after the 1980s. In addition,in those days it was thought that Egypt was simply a giftof the Nile. For what reason? Until the 1980s, there was alack of archaeological excavation in Egypt’s Western Desert. Today, the historical genetics of the Nile Valley,which is at one and the same time the ‘crossroad and refugium’, and the ‘Saharan affinities’ of the Predynastic Egyptians, have begun to be clearly identified (Keita andBoyce 2005).Since the 1980s, and the renewal of the excavations at Kom el-Ahmar (ancient Nekhen/Hierakonpolis) by ateam directed by Michael Hoffman, archaeologists,notably the team .
EGYPT IN ITS AFRICAN CONTEXT
After 7000 BC, Holocene human settlement expanded allover the Eastern Sahara and Sudan ‘fostering thedevelopment of cattle pastoralism’; then, ‘retreatingmonsoonal rains caused the desertification of the Egyptian Sahara at 5300BC’ (Sadig 2009, 93). During two millennia, the Saharan populations were forced tomigrate to ecological refuges such as the desert oases andthe ‘linear oasis’ of the Nile Valley, and to the south,from the desert’s western edge in the Chad region and its eastern frontier at the Somalian horn (see Figures 1 and2). ‘The full desert conditions all over Egypt ca.3500[BC] coincided with the first stages of pharaonic civilization in the Nile Valley’ (Sadig 2009, 93).Therefore, the Ancient Egyptians were also the childrenof the desert.
Figure 4. Pottery from the Elephant's tomb, Nekhen Hk24(Naqada I): imported Maadi jar, C -ware bowl and Black-topped beaker (after Friedman 2003b, 16); Nubian jarfrom Hk43 (Naqada IIA) (after Gatto 2003, 15b)
Book: Egypt in its African Context
Book: Egypt in its African Context
www.academia.edu/1921955/Book_Egypt_in_its_African_Context
☝🏾👀Pls go here for a lot more, good read people.
