- El-Badari
El-Badari (ArB|البداري) is an area of
Upper Egypt betweenMatmar andQau , including numerous Predynastic cemeteries (notablyMostagedda ,Deir Tasa and the cemetery of el-Badari itself), as well as at least one early Predynastic settlement atHammamia . The finds from el-Badari form the original basis for theBadari an period (c. 5500-4000 BC), the earliest phase of the Upper Egyptian Predynastic period. The el-Badari region, stretching for 30km along the east bank of the Nile, was first investigated byGuy Brunton andGertrude Caton-Thompson between 1922 and 1931. Most of the cemeteries in the Badarian region have yielded distinctive pottery vessels (particularly red-polished ware with blackened tops), as well as terracotta and ivory anthropomorphic figures, slate palettes, stone vases and flint tools. The contents of Predynastic cemeteries at el-Badari have been subjected to a number of statical analyses attempting to clarify the chronology and social history of the Badarian period.Bibliography
"The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt" by Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson
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