Pistol Wrote:
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> The trend with current field work in lower Egypt
> (Nile Delta) supports Romer's view, but there can
> be no doubt the expansion of Naqada culture also
> included military power, in fact Naqada IIc
> expansion went beyond lower Egypt into the Levant.
> In my opinion you should read "Before The Pyramids
> - Origins of Egyptian Civilization" (Oriental
> Institute Museum Publication 33 - The Oriental
> Institute of the University of Chicago, ed. Emily
> Teeter, 2011).
>
I'll look for that, thanks!

> In OIMP33 you will find the foundations of Romer's
> reasoning, basically the Maadi-Buto culture was
> comprised of neolithic style Chiefdoms at the time
> Naqada IIc culture was already a well functioning
> state in its own right, but the archaeologic
> strata in the Delta reveals the Maadi-Buto culture
> wained slowly over centuries until disappearing
> altogether by the arrival of Naqada III period...
> Lower Egypt appears to have been absorbed by long
> term acculturation of Naqada,

That makes more sense. Sparse settlements along a long stretch of river means few reasons to go attack someone else.


> districts or cities resisting, the Narmer Palette
> could represent one of many Lower Egyptian cities
> who would not comply and just as easily represent
> a battle from the expansion into the Levant.
> Unification was a long political, cultural and
> military process, not a conquering war. There's
> also a case made by Wilkinson that the Red Crown
> of Lower Egypt had it's origin from Upper Egypt,
> the point being that the Red Crown was already
> existing in Lower Egypt long before Dynasty 0.
>
Thanks for that addition. In light of this, his reported claims make more sense.

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