Egypt and It’s Surroundings: Interrelations in the IV millennium B.C.

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To acquire knowledge regarding the relations and interactions that Egypt had with Canaan, Lower Nubia and Mesopotamia in the period between 4000-3000 B.C.: ways, mechanisms, form, dynamics and the consequences. Developing the ability to define a “relation” model and how to synthetically and critically review it.

Course description: Comparative cultural configuration of Egypt and the region in the IV millennium B.C. Entering Nubia. Egyptian presence in Canaan. Influence from Mesopotamia. Models of interaction. The effect of regional relations on internal development processes.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination after the 7th week and written final examination.

Egypt and It’s Surroundings: Interrelations in the IV millennium B.C.

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To acquire knowledge regarding the relations and interactions that Egypt had with Canaan, Lower Nubia and Mesopotamia in the period between 4000-3000 B.C.: ways, mechanisms, form, dynamics and the consequences. Developing the ability to define a “relation” model and how to synthetically and critically review it.

Course description: Comparative cultural configuration of Egypt and the region in the IV millennium B.C. Entering Nubia. Egyptian presence in Canaan. Influence from Mesopotamia. Models of interaction. The effect of regional relations on internal development processes.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination after the 7th week and written final examination.

Literature/Reading:

• Literatura se može dobiti u biblioteci Odeljenja za arheologiju. Važan izvor podataka su predavanja.
• Anđelković, B., 1995, The Relations between Early Bronze Age I Canaanites and Upper Egyptians. Belgrade: Faculty of Philosophy
• Levy, T. E., and van den Brink, E. C. M. 2002 Interaction Models, Egypt and the Levantine Periphery. Pp 3-38 in Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennium B. C.
• Gatto, M. C. 2000 The most ancient evidence of the “A-Groups” Culture in Lower Nubia. Pp. 105-117 in Recent Research Into the Stone Age of Northeastern Africa, eds. L. Krzyzaniak et al.. Poznan: Pozna
• Smith, H. S. 1992 The Making of Egypt: A Review of the influence of Susa and Sumer on Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia in the 4th millennium B.C. Pp. 235-246 in The Followers of Horus, eds. R. Friedman and
• Morrey, P.R.S. 1987 On Tracking Cultural Transfers in Prehistory:The Case of Egypt and Lower Mesopotamia in the Fourth Millennium B.C. Pp.36-46 in Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World. Cambridge.
• Kantor, H. J. 1992 The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the First Intermediate Period. Pp. 3-21 in Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, ed. R. W. Ehrich. Chicago and
• Griswold, W. A., 1992, Imports and social status: The role of long-distance trade in predynastic Egyptian state formation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University. Ann Arbor: UMI.[str. 9-33, 137-151].
• Wilkinson, T. A. H., 2002, Uruk into Egypt: Imports and Imitations. Pp. 237-248 in Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East, ed. J. N. Postgate. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd.
• Jimenez-Serrano,A., 2003, Two proto-kingdoms in Lower Nubia in the fourth Millennium BC.Pp. 251-267 in Cultural Markers in the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa and Recent Research. Poznan: PAM.