Gerze culture - Gerze culture

Japanese: ゲルゼ文化 - ゲルゼぶんか

This is a Chalcolithic culture from the end of the Predynastic Period of Egypt, also known as the Naqada II culture. It was named after the Gerze ruins downstream of the Nile. It is an extension of the Badari and Amra cultures, and its area expanded north and south from the Amra culture. Village communities that underwent a transformation at the end of the Amra culture grew into towns that became the centers of nomes in the second half of the 4th millennium BC. It is characterized by painted pottery, pottery with wavy handles, and spouted pottery. Stone tool processing technology reached its peak, and magnificent flint knives were made using the pressure peeling technique.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

エジプト先王朝時代末期の金石併用期文化で，ナカーダII文化とも呼ばれる。ナイル下流のゲルゼGerze遺跡にちなんで名づけられた。バダーリ文化，アムラ文化の延長上に位置し，地域はアムラ文化より南北に拡大している。アムラ文化末期に変容を遂げた村落共同体は，前4千年紀の後半にノモスの中心となる町へと成長していった。彩文土器や波状把手付土器，注口土器等に特色がある。石器加工技術は頂点に達し，押圧剝離技法によるみごとなフリント製ナイフが作られた。

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