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Preface=xiii
PART ONE Making Culture(5000-3000 BC)
1. Beside the Pale Lake : Living in the Faiyum, c. 5000-4000 BC=3
The Nile Year=9
Measured Lives=12
2. Sickle Sheen : Most Ancient Egypt and the Neolithic=18
'Egyptianness'=22
3. Merimda and el-Omari : Lower Egypt, 4800-4300 BC=24
The Cemeteries of el-Omari=28
The Merimda Head=29
The Big Mistake=31
A Neolithic Revolution?=32
The Character of Change=34
4. The Badarians : Middle Egypt, 4400-4000 BC=37
Badarian Pottery=39
Badarian Landscapes=44
Pots and History=48
The Living People=51
The Burial of the Dead=54
5. Black-topped, White-lined : Life in Upper Egypt, 4000-3500 BC=57
The Graphic Image=59
Settling and Herding=63
Naqada, Abydos and Hierakonpolis=64
6. A Cloud across the Moon : Death in Upper Egypt, 4000-3200 BC=72
The Oval Court=73
Great Tombs=77
7. Boats and Donkeys : Copper, Trade and Influence within the Lower Nile Valley, 3500-3000 BC=88
Boats and Pots=93
Maadi-Buto : Import-Export=99
8. Rolling Along : Of Men and Monsters, 3500-3000 BC=108
New Space=111
New Forms=112
PART TWO Making Pharaoh(3200-3000 BC)
9. Scorpion and Hawk : 3200-3000 BC=119
The Wine-Rich Tomb=123
10. The Coming of the King : The Origins of Hieroglyphs, c. 3000 BC=127
Interpretations=130
On the Origins of Hieroglyphics=131
11. Narmer's Palette : The Qualities of Kings, c. 3000 BC=137
Purposes and Meanings=141
12. The Hawk upon the Wall : History, Land and Naqadan Resettlement, 3500-3000 BC=146
Migrations=149
13. Taking Wing : Naqadan Emigration, 3500-3000 BC=154
Into the Delta=154
Into the Levant=158
Into Nubia=159
14. Taking Stock : Ordering and Accounting within the Early State=163
Counting and Accounting=167
The Order of the State=170
15. The Shadows of Birds : Rite and Sacrifice within the Early State=176
Tithe and Ceremonial=179
Sacred and Profane=183
PART THREE Making a Kingdom(3000-2650 BC)
16. The Serekh Tomb : The Story of the Naqada Mastaba, c. 3000 BC=187
Uruk in Egypt=191
17. A Line of Kings : The First Dynasty Royal Tombs, 3000-2825 BC=196
Reconstructing Ancient Abydos=201
Histories and Kings=210
Aigyptiaka : Manetho and the Dynasties=212
18. The Lost Dynasty : Fake Histories, Real Lives : Dynasty Two, 2825-2675 BC=215
Let me call you Sweetheart?=218
From Anthroponomy to History=220
Aswan 1-2-3=221
19. The Wheeling Hawk : Refining Egypt : Dynasties One, Two and Three=229
Trading Clichés=229
The Material World=233
Before and After=237
20. The Realms of Pharaoh : Dynasties One and Three=240
The Politics of Sacrifice=242
King Djet's Comb=244
Tithe and Sacrifice=246
21. Two Gentlemen of Saqqara : Merka and Hesi-re : Dynasties One and Three=250
Merka 251
Mariette and Hesi-re=257
Order and the Court=264
Constancy and Change=265
Ars Brevis=269
PART FOUR Step Pyramid(2675-2650 BC)
22. Djoser's Kingdom=275
Djoser and History=277
The Switch to Stone=279
To Make a Pyramid=283
Antiquarian=286
23. Heb Sediana : Visions of the Pyramid=292
The Egyptian Leonardo=294
Forms and Functions=295
24. Deus Absconditus : The Hidden God=302
The Demesne of the Shrine=303
25. In Consequence : The Pyramid's Effect=309
PART FIVE Building Ancient Egypt(2650-2550 BC)
26. A Diadem of Pyramids : 2650-2625 BC=317
In the Provinces=320
27. Court and Country : Metjen and the Early Reign of Sneferu, 2625-2600 BC=328
The Meanings of Words=334
28. High Society : Sneferu at Maidum, 2625-2600 BC=337
Country Life=339
Life and Death at Maidum=344
The State in Life and Death=349
Offering at the Pyramid=351
Annals=353
29. A Building Passion : Sneferu at Dahshur, 2600-2575 BC=357
A History in Stone=358
Building the Machine=362
Running the Machine=364
30. Making the Gods : Deity at Dahshur, 2600-2575 BC=367
In the Image of the King=370
The Place of Kings=374
31. The Perfect Pyramid : Khufu and Giza, 2575-2550 BC=377
Imagining the Pyramid=378
The State Machine=381
After the Pyramid=385
The Tomb of Khufu's Mother=388
Chronology=396
Bibliography=401
List of Maps and Figures=441
List of Plates=453
Index=457