The hidden Egyptian workshop: the lithic grave goods of King Khasekhemwy

• Autores: Raphaël Angevin
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 89, Nº 346, 2015, págs. 818-837
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The centuries from the Late Naqada period to the Second Dynasty saw significant changes in Egyptian society. Elite seizures of power and a shift towards a centralised economy changed the way that objects were traded and valued. It is over a century since the discovery of a large flint assemblage in the tomb of Khasekhemwy, the last Second Dynasty ruler, in �Cemetery B� at Abydos. New analysis of these lithic artefacts has revealed that the presence of debitage among the grave goods was more than simply a by-product of manufacture. Such changes in funerary materiality demonstrate a move towards royal control of a prestige goods economy.