social complexity

Ancient Egypt
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Personal adornment in early Egypt

Barbara Boczar explores the materials used to create objects for personal adornment in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Early Dynastic periods.

World Archaeology
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Building community: Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler, and life 12,000 years ago

An exhibition at the James Simon Gallery – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin explores the art and architecture of the first settled cultures in south-eastern Turkey.

Ancient Egypt
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Beliefs and narratives: Images from Predynastic Egypt

Barbara A Boczar explores the imagery of Egypt’s Naqada periods.

BELOW This tiny infant was buried with 20 pots, 2,154 shell beads, and a copper axe. Note, too, the bivalve shells, which we think symbolised rebirth. The big bangle is made of marble.

World Archaeology
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Rise of the elites

... you can peer down into a deep square where Bronze Age burials are left in the ground following an earlier Thai excavation. Your eyes alight on the grave of a man accompanied by a remarkable number of pottery vessels and a socketed copper-base axe.