Peron - The Dead Come Before Cities of the Living in the Nile Valley

Even into the fourth millennium b c, was technically referred to as the pre dynastic periods of the centuries directly before the emergence of the paronic state, there's still remarkably little evidence for urbanisation. But even in cases where we can access some of that information, it doesn't appear to resemble anything like the kind of city states, or early versions of those, that one sees in mesopotamia. Again, it seems to be a much a configuration of people moving in quite fluid ways through the landscape. And i think the really keething there, which maybe we can get on to if you want to talk about the creation of these large, funerary landscapes, is also about