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Radiocarbon Dates from Halfiah Gibli (Abadiyeh), a Predynastic Settlement in Upper Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Kathryn A Bard
Kathryn A Bard*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. Email: kbard@bu.edu.
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In 1989 and 1991, wood charcoal samples were excavated at a Predynastic settlement in Upper Egypt, Halfiah Gibli (HG). A second site, Semaineh (SH), was also investigated, but as the ceramics there were mostly from the Old Kingdom, excavations were concentrated at HG. Wood charcoal was obtained in undisturbed contexts, in association with Nagada culture potsherds and lithics, ranging in date from about 3700 BC to 3200/3100 BC. These new radiocarbon dates provide more data for the relative phases of the Nagada culture, formulated mainly from ceramic seriation.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , 2003 , pp. 123 - 130
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