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Monday 28th July
Tuesday 29th July
Wednesday 30th July
Thursday 31st July
Friday 1st August
Posters

Sunday 27th July

Foyer of the Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London
Registration 2:00–4:00pm

 

Monday 28th July

BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London
10:00am–5:00pm

'Egypt at its Origins'
Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: Recent Discoveries

held in conjunction with the British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan’s

Annual Egyptological Colloquium 2008*

*For those who do not wish to attend the entire conference, tickets for the Annual Egyptological Colloquium and/or the Sackler Lecture may be obtained separately from the British Museum's Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan from 1st June 2008. Further details are available here.

Opening remarks — Atia Radwan Under-secretary of State for Upper Egypt, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt

Dirk Huyge — ‘Lascaux along the Nile’: Late Pleistocene rock art in Egypt

Matthieu Honegger — Upper Nubia before the emergence of Kerma: a fortified settlement from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC

Renée Friedman — Origins of monumental architecture: investigations at Hierakonpolis HK6 in 2008

Thomas Hikade — Origins of monumental architecture: excavations at Hierakonpolis HK29B and HK25

BREAK

Matthew D. Adams & David O’Connor — Monuments of Egypt’s early kings at Abydos

Vera Müller — Released from the sand: new insights into the royal necropolis at Abydos Umm el-Qa‘ab

LUNCH 1:00–2:30pm
Please make your own arrangements

Deborah Darnell — The Rayayna crossroads: life, death and the divine in the Upper Egyptian Desert

E. Christiana Köhler — Memphis at the dawn of history: recent excavations in the Early Dynastic necropolis at Helwan

BREAK

Béatrix Midant-Reynes — A tale of two funerary traditions: the Predynastic cemetery at Kom el-Khilgan (East Delta)

Ulrich Hartung — Recent investigations at Tell el-Fara'in (Buto) in the western Nile Delta

Followed by:

The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology 2008
6:00pm

Krzysztof Ciałowicz — Ivory and gold in the Delta: excavations at Tell el-Farkha
Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Reception in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery

 

Tuesday 29th July

BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London
The Third International Colloquium on Predynatic and Early Dynastic Egypt

Recent Fieldwork
9:30am–12:15pm

Marek Chłodnicki — The Central Kom of Tell el-Farkha: 1,000 years of history (c. 3600–2600 BC)

Agnieszka Mączynska — Lower Egyptian–Nagadan transition: a view from Tell el-Farkha

Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin — Sepulchral architecture in details: new data from Tell el-Farkha

Mariusz Jucha — The development of pottery production during the Early Dynastic period and the beginning of the Old Kingdom: a view from Tell el-Farkha

Lucy Kubiak-Martens — Predynastic and Early Dynastic plant husbandry at Tell el-Farkha as revealed by archaeobotanical evidence

BREAK

Ahmed G. Fahmy, Linda Perry & Renée Friedman — Archaeobotany of food production at Predynastic Hierakonpolis

Izumi H. Takamiya — A comparative study of heating/firing installations at Hierakonpolis

Judith Bunbury & Angus Graham — Nekhen: island origins and the migrating Nile

LUNCH 12:15–2:00pm
Please make your own arrangements

Poster presentations
1:30pm Sackler Seminar Room

Emmanuelle Courboin — Raw materials supply and technological analysis of knapped lithic tools in Naqadan contexts: a new look at De Morgan's collection from Hierakonpolis in Saint Germain-en-Laye Museum, France

Maarten Horn — Shells in Neolithic and Predynastic Egypt

Temple, Ritual and Cult
2:00–5:00pm

David A. Anderson — Evidence for early ritual activity in the Predynastic settlement at el-Mahâsna

Veerle Linseele & Wim Van Neer — Animal bones from ritual contexts at Hierakonpolis

Gwenola Graff & Stan Hendrickx — Architectural representations on D-ware: identification and comparison with archaeological data

BREAK

Richard Bussmann — Local traditions in early Egyptian temples

Liam McNamara — Local versus national tradition: early shrines as 'autonomous centres of culture'?

Nozomu Kawai — An early cult center at Abusir-Saqqara? Recent discoveries at a rocky outcrop in north-west Saqqara

RECEPTION 5:30–7:30pm
Wilkins South Cloisters, University College London
Private viewing of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

 

Wednesday 30th July

BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London

Session on modelling Egyptian state formation
Chair: David Wengrow
9:30am–12:00pm

Branislav Andelkovic — Factors of state formation in Protodynastic Egypt

Marcelo Campagno — Kinship, concentration of population and the emergence of the State in the Nile Valley

Juan José Castillos — The development and nature of inequality in early Egypt

Frédéric Guyot — Some proposals for reconsidering the social dynamics of Predynastic Lower Egypt and its neighbours

Gavin Smith — Beyond a boundary: the conception, meaning and acquiescence of legitimate authority and three-dimensional power from Badari to Naqada

Workgroup meeting on Early Dynastic potmarks
Chair: Edwin van den Brink

followed by
Workgroup meeting on chronology
Chair: Stan Hendrickx

9:00am–12:00pm Sackler Seminar Room
Space limited – sign-up at registration

Discussion/presentation of:

Lisa Mawdsley — The corpus of potmarks from Tarkhan

Geoffrey J. Tassie; Fekri A. Hassan; Bram V. Calcoen; Joris van Wetering — More potmarks from the Protodynastic–Early Dynastic site of Kafr Hassan Dawood, Wadi Tumilat, East Delta, Egypt

Anna Wodzinska — Potmarks of Early Dynastic Buto and Old Kingdom Giza: their occurrence and economic significance

Rita Hartmann — The chronology of Naqada I tombs in the Predynastic Cemetery U at Abydos

Nathalie Buchez — A reconsideration of predynastic chronology: the contribution of Adaïma

LUNCH 12:00–1:00pm
Please make your own arrangements

1:00pm Board coaches for the optional excursion to Oxford
Coaches depart from north entrance, British Museum

2:30pm Arrival at St John's College, University of Oxford
Tea and coffee reception

3:00pm Free time in Oxford/Tours of the Griffith Institute Archive, University of Oxford

RECEPTION 5:30–7:30pm
Private viewing of the Egyptian collections in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Special Exhibition: Early Egypt in the Ashmolean Museum

Dinner in Oxford
Please make your own arrangements

9:30pm Board coaches for return journey to London

 

Thursday 31st July

BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London

Funerary Ritual; Objects and Technology
9:30am–12:00pm

Alice Stevenson — Understanding ritual activity in Gerzean cemeteries: global trends and local narratives

Stan Hendrickx — Tusks and tags

Merel Eyckerman — Two tombs from el-Mahâsna in the Egyptian collection of the Royal Museums for Art and History, Brussels

Christine Lorre — Small artefacts made of clay and stone at Adaïma

Grazia Antonella Di Pietro — Miscellaneous artefacts from Zawaydah (Petrie's Naqada 'South Town')

BREAK  

Karin Kindermann — Lithic technology and production sequences: recent investigations from Tell el-Fara‘in/Buto

Masahiro Baba — Pottery production at Hierakonpolis during the Naqada II period

LUNCH 12:00–2:00pm
Please make your own arrangements

'Script as Material Culture' working lunch
Chair: Kathryn E. Piquette
12:00–2:00pm Sackler Seminar Room
Space limited – sign-up at registration

Discussion/presentation of:

Alain Anselin — The phonetic intention. Ideograms and phonograms in potmarks of Dynasties 0, I             and II

John Darnell — Rock inscriptions and the origin of Egyptian writing

Rita Di Maria — Clay sealings: tools of communication systems among different cultures in the 4th             millennium BC?

Alazne Legarreta Hernández — The evolution of shm-i3h during Dynasties I-III

Elise  MacArthur — In search of the sdm=f: the conception and development of hieroglyphic             writing through the reign of Aha

Kathryn E. Piquette — A contextual archaeology of early script and image

Maria Torcia — Clay sealings from Giza: the group with the figurative seal impressions

Architecture
2:00–5:00pm

Claudia Lacher — The tomb of King Ninetjer of the Second Dynasty at Saqqara

Ilona Regulski — Investigating an unknown necropolis from the Second Dynasty at Saqqara-south

Angela La Loggia — Egyptian engineering in the Early Dynastic period: the sites of Saqqara and Helwan 

BREAK

Yann Tristant & Jane Smythe — New excavation of an old cemetery: preliminary results of the Abu Rawash Project

Yasser Mahmoud Hossein — A new Archaic period cemetery at Abydos

Ahmed Mohamed Gabr — The new Archaic period cemetery at Abydos: an osteological report

Friday 1st August

BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London

Egypt, its Deserts and Neighbours
9:30am–12:00pm

Michał Kobusiewicz; Jacek Kabacinski; Romuald Schild; Joel D. Irish — Burial practices of the Final Neolithic pastoralists by Gebel Ramlah, Western Desert of Egypt

Heba Tallah A. A. Ibrahim — Nabta Playa during the last few years

Kit Nelson & Eman Khalifa — Implications for the origin and dispersal of black-topped pottery

Maria Carmela Gatto — Egypt and Nubia in the 5th–4th millennia BC: a view from the First Cataract and surroundings

 BREAK

Heiko Riemer — Subsistence, territory and contacts of the Sheikh Muftah pastoral nomads during the 3rd millennium BC: a view from the desert

John Coleman Darnell — The wadi of the Horus Qa-a

Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano — New predynastic graffiti from Qubbet el-Hawa South, Aswan

Joanne Rowland — Pre- and Early Historic settlement in the central Delta: the potential for locating evidence through palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and surface/sub-surface survey

LUNCH
Please make your own arrangements

1:30pm Tour of Wendorf Collection
Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum
Space limited – sign-up at registration

Egypt, its Deserts and Neighbours
2:00–5:00pm

Gregory P. Gilbert & Tonny J. De Wit — Local adaptation and intracultural variability in the Western Delta: a view from Predynastic Saïs (Sa el-Hagar)

Eliot Braun — Suggestions for revised chronological correlations of South Levantine sites and the reign of Horus Narmer

Francesco Raffaele — Foreign enemies and warfare symbolism: ethnicity and historicity in the period of Egyptian unification

 BREAK

Shomarka Keita — Situating the biocultural origins of ancient Egypt

Edwin van den Brink — International Potmark Workshop resumé

Stan Hendrickx — Chronology workshop resumé

Kathryn E. Piquette — 'Script as Material Culture' resumé

Marcelo Campagno — Modelling state formation resumé

Closing remarks

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