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• The most important innovation in the paleolithic period is the creation of the hand axe
• Here they shape the stone• It is not stone they just found
• Many of these rock crops were used for thousands of years up until the Islamic and Christian period.
• This makes dating artwork more difficult.
• Narrow slabs of sandstone set into a circle aligned with the summer solace
• Animal sacrifice at the location shows the importance to these people
A-Group
• The oldest group of civilization in Nubia.• Would end at about the same time as the first
dynasty of Egypt.• Began to domesticate crops as well as keep
animals.
• Burials at this time were in fetal positions in burial pits. This style will also be use in early Egypt.
• Bodies were buried on their right hand side fasting south or west
• Grave goods were pottery as well as jewlery• Cosmetic pallets were found in both male and
female graves.
• This later period finds interesting artifacts.• This has the cartouche, later found in Egypt as
well as the white crown depicted later in Egypt as well as the falcon and bull use in art of Egypt
• The end of the A-Group came with increased hostilities of the Egyptians.
• Were they pushed further south by the Egyptians?
• Killed off?• Were they incorporated into later groups?