{"pk":3977,"title":"Predynastic Burials","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In ancient Egypt, the primary evidence for the Predynastic Period, principally the fourth millennium BCE, derives from burials. In Upper Egypt, there is a clear trend over the period towards greater investment in mortuary facilities and rituals, experimentation in body treatments, and increasing disparity in burial form and content between a small number of elite and a larger non-elite population. In Maadi/Buto contexts in Lower Egypt, pit burials remained simple with minimal differentiation and less of a focus upon display-orientated rituals.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Naqada"},{"word":"Amra"},{"word":"Buto"},{"word":"Badari"},{"word":"Maadi"},{"word":"Archaeological Anthropology"},{"word":"Near Eastern Languages and Societies"}],"section":"Material Culture, Art and Architecture","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2m3463b2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alice","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stevenson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2007-11-14T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2007-11-14T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-12-05T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3977/galley/2553/download/"}]}