The A-Group/C-Group transition in Lower Nubia (Egypt and  Sudan) : a review of the pottery evidence
This work examines the nature ofthe cultural, historical, and socio-economic differences between the late Neolithic A-Group and Early Bronze Age C-Group cultures of Lower Nubia, and proposes a new explanatory model to explain and describe the nature of transition between these groups between the late 4th millennium BC and mid 3rd millennium BC. The conventional prevailing explanation of the transition between these cultures relies on a culture-historical framework of extinction, abandonment and immigration, according to which the A-Group culture came to an end as the result of Egyptian military activity during the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c.2800 BC), leaving Lower Nubia devoid of indigenous Nubian occupation for approximately 500 years until the immigration of a culturally distinct C-Group population during the 6th Dynasty (c.2300 BC). Through a detailed comparative analysis of A-Group and C-Group pottery, focusing on the identification of technological choices made throughout the production process, the nature of the technological and cultural associations between the A-Group and C-Group cultures has been re- evaluated. This analysis questions the chronological sensitivity of forms of decorated pottery
Gait, John Paul
The A-Group/C-Group transition in Lower Nubia (Egypt and  Sudan) : a review of the pottery evidence. This work examines the nature ofthe cultural, historical, and socio-economic differences between the late Neolithic A-Group and Early Bronze Age C-Group cultures of Lower Nubia, and proposes a new explanatory model to explain and describe the nature of transition between these groups between the late 4th millennium BC and mid 3rd millennium BC. The conventional prevailing explanation of the transition between these cultures relies on a culture-historical framework of extinction, abandonment and immigration, according to which the A-Group culture came to an end as the result of Egyptian military activity during the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c.2800 BC), leaving Lower Nubia devoid of indigenous Nubian occupation for approximately 500 years until the immigration of a culturally distinct C-Group population during the 6th Dynasty (c.2300 BC). Through a detailed comparative analysis of A-Group and C-Group pottery, focusing on the identification of technological choices made throughout the production process, the nature of the technological and cultural associations between the A-Group and C-Group cultures has been re- evaluated. This analysis questions the chronological sensitivity of forms of decorated pottery
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