The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt: A Local History, 4500 to 1550 BC

Cover\nBook Title\nCopyright\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nList of figures and tables\nChronological chart\nIntroduction\n1. Setting and history of research in Wadjet Province\n	Archaeology\n	History of research\n	Economy\n	Towns in the Tenth Upper Egyptian province\n	Deities\n2. The Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods\n	The Predynastic Period\n	The Badarian Period\n	The Naqada Period\n	The Early Dynastic Period\n	The Wadjet province in Early Dynastic Egypt\n3. Old Kingdom I\n	The archaeological record from cemeteries\n	Pyramid building\n	Burials of the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties\n	Old Kingdom settlements\n	The Old Kingdom state: summary\n4. Old Kingdom II, the First Intermediate Period, and the early Middle Kingdom\n	End of the Old Kingdom: the archaeology of the period\n	Part I: the archaeological record\n	Part II: the written records, history and social relations\n	Society and political history of the late Old Kingdom to thebeginning of the Middle Kingdom\n5. The Middle Kingdom\n	Building a new state in the early Middle Kingdom\n	The late Middle Kingdom\n	Evidence from stelae\n	Middle Kingdom settlements\n	Society in the Middle Kingdom\n6. The End of the Middle Kingdom andthe Second Intermediate Period\n	Examples of burials\n	Historical overview of the period\n	Settlements of the period\n	The society of the Second Intermediate Period\nConcluding remarks\nAppendix: List of people from the Wadjet province\nAbbreviations and Bibliography\nIndex\nBack Cover