Tasa culture

Japanese: ターサ文化 - ターサぶんか（英語表記）Tasa culture

A culture from the late Neolithic period of Upper Egypt. It is thought to date to around 4500-4000 BC, and Del Tasa on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt is the standard site. Perhaps because the inhabitants were semi-sedentary and semi-nomadic, only the remains of a hearth are known from their dwellings. The graves were oval pit-style graves, and the bodies were buried in a flexed position, with pottery, ivory, and shell ornaments being buried with them. Most of the pottery is crude, but old types of black-topped pottery and open-rimmed black pottery with geometric patterns engraved into it using white pigment are known, and rectangular palettes have also been excavated. There is also a theory that this is not an independent cultural period, but rather an early stage of the Badari culture. (→ Tasa Ruins)

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Japanese:

上エジプトの新石器時代後期の文化。前 4500～4000年頃と思われ，中部エジプトのナイル東岸にあるデル・ターサが標準遺跡。住民は半定住半遊牧の状態であったためか住居は炉跡しか判明しない。墓は長円形の竪穴式で遺体は屈葬，土器や象牙製，貝製の装身具が副葬された。土器は粗製が多いが，黒頂土器の古い型や，刻文に白色の顔料を埋めた幾何学文のある口縁部の開いた黒色土器が知られ，長方形のパレットも出土する。独立した文化期とせず，バダーリー文化の初期の段階とする説もある。 (→ターサ遺跡 ) 　

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