Discussion History

Anthropology : EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Topics Discussed in the class :

Egyptology and archaeology

Environmental overview

The Lower Paleolithic

Cemeteries of the Wadi Halfa region

Nabta Playa: Early evidence of social complexity

Near Eastern domesticates

Badarian people of Middle Egypt

Peoples of the Fayum, Merimde and Khartoum

The Upper Egyptian Predynastic

Sequence dating

The Lower Egyptian Predynastic

The Late Predynastic/Archaic in Upper

The Unification

The Early Dynastic period

The First Dynasty

The Old Kingdom

Pyramids

Old Kingdom

economic institutions

Environmental and economic change in the later Old Kingdom

The end of the Old Kingdom

The First Intermediate Period

ASSIGNMENT:

I would like you to share your thoughts as to what lessons we can learn from Egypt's past. You might broadly summarize a topic you found particularly interesting. 

I would be interested to know whether you learned about something you hadn't thought of before. I would also be interested to know what topics you would like to know more about.