The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) organises in
cooperation with the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA),
Archéo-Nil and the Institut Français d'Égypte (IFE) the fifth
international conference of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Studies,
which marks the continuation of the previous successful conferences
which happen every three years: Kraków 2002, Toulouse 2005,
London 2008 and New York 2011. This five-day international
event will gather in Cairo a network of experts from different countries.
They will present and discuss their respective research relating a
significant range of themes within the broader subject of the origins
of the Egyptian State (from the Predynastic period to the beginning
of the Old Kingdom). This Fifth international conference marks a
new stage in the momentum acquired by Predynastic and Early
Dynastic studies.

Topics developed during the colloquium concern all aspects of
Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt. Papers and posters will
be organised around the following themes:
-- Craft specialisation, technology and material culture
-- Upper-Lower Egypt interactions
-- Deserts-Nile Valley interactions
-- Egypt and its neighbours (Levant, Nubia, Sahara)
-- Birth of writing
-- Absolute and relative chronology
-- Cult, ideology and social complexity
-- Results of recent fieldwork

Languages: English, French and German

Abstracts must be submitted by email before 31st July 2013.

Persons to contact:
Yann Tristant, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Béatrix Midant-Reynes, Institut français d'archéologie orientale,
airo, Egypt
<mailtorigins5@ifao.egnet.net> origins5@ifao.egnet.net

For more information:

[www.ifao.egnet.net]