Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 description and catalog of pre-dynastic, prehistoric artifacts from Egypt. Draws together evidence from various excavations and surveys undertaken by himself and others to present a fully illustrated, detailed catalog of recovered artifacts of flint, other stone, clay, pottery, ivory/tusk and bone, metalwork, wood, shell and glass. He attempts to establish relative dating sequence based on a combination of object typologies and grave associations, combined with the then-latest geological and sedimentological information, concluding that the material covered a period from around 10,000–5000 BC. Objects are described by material and form, set within his established chronological framework.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• CHAPTER I: THE MATERIALS
  • 1. Publications of the prehistoric
  • 2. Publications of early dynastic
  • 3. Numbers of dated graves
• CHAPTER II: THE DATING
  • 4. Development of sequences
  • 5. Precision of the dating
  • 6. Number of graves
  • 7. Geologic ages
  • 8. Period of graves
  • 9. Nile deposits
  • 10. Length of cycles
• CHAPTER III: HUMAN FIGURES
  • 11. Date
  • 12. Ivory figures
  • 13. Tusk figures
  • 14. Paste figures
  • 15. Clay figures
  • 16. Female figures
  • 17. Figures in boats
  • 18. Steatopygous figures
  • 19. List of figures
• CHAPTER IV: ANIMAL FIGURES
  • 20. Carnivora
  • 21. Herbivora
  • 22. Birds
  • 23. Reptiles, etc
• CHAPTER V: THE WHITE CROSS-LINED POTTERY
  • 24. Date and examples
  • 25. Basket patterns, chevrons
  • 26. Cross-hatched triangles
  • 27. Axes, ships
  • 28. Plants
  • 29. Animals
  • 30. Men
  • 31. List of animals figured
• CHAPTER VI: THE DECORATED POTTERY
  • 32. Introduction of types
  • 33. Decline of types
  • 34. Copies of stone vases
  • 35. Rushwork covers
  • 36. Brush drawing
  • 37. Sources of spirals
  • 38. The Aloe design
  • 39. The ships
  • 40. Details of ships
  • 41. Ensigns on ships
  • 42. Notable vases
  • 43. Flamingoes, etc.
  • 44. Sails
  • 45. Birds
  • 46. Squat jars
  • 47. Later style
  • 48. Boat models
• CHAPTER VII: WEAPONS
  • 49. Disc maces
  • 50. Mace handles
  • 51. Pear-form maces
  • 52. Peculiar maces
  • 53. Stone axes
  • 54. Arrow heads
  • 55. Bone harpoons
  • 56. Copper harpoons
  • 57. Clay and wood models
• CHAPTER VIII: METAL WORK, MEASURES AND WEIGHTS
  • 58. Daggers and lances
  • 59. Knives
  • 60. Axes, adzes, and chisels
  • 61. Personal objects
  • 62. Gold, silver, lead, and iron
  • 63. Liquid measure
  • 64. Weights of gold unit
  • 65. Weights of Daric unit
  • 66. Weights of ⅓ Qedet unit
  • 67. Balance beam
• CHAPTER IX: PERSONAL OBJECTS
  • 68. Long combs
  • 69. Short combs
  • 70. Hairpins
  • 71. Armlets, rings, sandals
  • 72. Spoons
  • 73. Marbles
  • 74. Ninepins
  • 75. Gaming slips and rods
  • 76. Association of pieces
  • 77. Tusks, plain and headed
  • 78. Tusks with lines
  • 79. Tags, flat
  • 80. Stone tags
• CHAPTER X: THE STONE VASES
  • 81. Squat vases
  • 82. Barrel and shoulder vases
  • 83. Tubular vases
  • 84. Standing vases rearranged
  • 85. Saucers
  • 86. Conical cups
  • 87. Cylindrical jars
  • 88. Peculiar forms
  • 89. Libyan vases
• CHAPTER XI: SLATE PALETTES
  • 90. Use of palettes
  • 91. Men and quadrupeds
  • 92. Birds and boats
  • 93. Fish
  • 94. Double bird type
  • 95. Rhombic and rectangular
  • 96. Magic slates
  • 97. Details of slates
  • 98. Hard-stone palettes
• CHAPTER XII: MINOR ARTICLES
  • 99. Ivory and horn vases
  • 100. Inscribed objects
  • 101. Lance amulets
  • 102. Forehead pendants
  • 103. Spindle whorls
  • 104. Carton spacers
  • 105. Emery objects
  • 106. Ivory and bone work
  • 107. Pottery objects
  • 108. Glazing, early
  • 109. Glazing on quartz
  • 110. Glass
  • 111. Wood and fibre
  • 112. Shell. Model garlic
  • 113. Materials
• CHAPTER XIII: THE EPOCHS OF THE PREHISTORIC AGES
  • 114. Evidences of changes
  • 115. Pottery of the first age
  • 116. Pottery of the second age
  • 117. Dates of other products
• CHAPTER XIV: THE PREHISTORIC CIVILISATIONS
  • 118. The Solutrean age
  • 119. The first civilisation
  • 120. The second civilisation
  • 121. The collapse of the old order, and entry of the dynastic people
• NOTE, on prehistoric periods