From Foraging to Food Producing

Abstract

The Nile valley has been the cradle to groups of foragers practicing hunting, gathering and fishing, and technologically advanced pottery production. This social, economic, and cultural system developed during the early and part of the middle Holocene periods and was gradually supplanted by socially more complex communities with a mixed food-producing subsistence system. Differences from northern and southern part of valley can now be emphasized and they describe a dynamic world whose making has been boosted by local and external agents.