EGYPTIAN PREHISTOIRY

MAIN STEPS


Quaternaire :


Low Paleolithic :
1 200 000 - 90 000 B . C .

Nil valley occupated by Homo sapiens sapiens . Wet climatic phase .
Industries chellean , acheullean

Middle Paleolithic :
90 000 - 50 000 B . C .

Levaloisian industries = round galets .

Upper Paleolithic :
50 000 - 10 000 B . C .

50 000 - 30 000 Mousterian-levaloisian indistries = wet climatic phase .
30 000 - 24 000 = Aterians on the whole north part of Africa . Beginning of a dry climatic phase .

Epipaleolithic / Mesolithic :
10 000 - 5 100 B . C .

Beginnig of animals domestication , huntting increasing .
Cultures of Esnian , of Silsilian , of Afnian , of Sebilian , of el Kabian , of Helwan and of Tarifian ? .
Wet humid phase from 10000 to 6000 B.C , and after an other dryer phase from 6000 to 4500 B . C .

Neolithic :
5100 - 4000 B.C.

Sites of Faywm , Merimde Beni-Salame , El Omari , El Tarif , Khartwm .
Startinf of a more classical culture of Badari .
Agriculture , breeding , poteries , lithic industrie more sofisticaded .
Climate more wet , called also IVth wet phase or Subpluvial neolithic , first appearances of copper ..

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