Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. Mediterranean (Early Western World)
7. Egyptian (ancient)
8. Egyptian periods
9. Predynastic
10. Upper Egyptian Predynastic

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the period in Upper Egypt from about 4000 to 3500 or 3200 BCE. Works of art include stone maceheads, slate palettes, stone vases, ivory carvings, figurines of various materials, black-topped red pottery, and a red polished pottery sometimes decorated in white slip with linear designs of human or animal figures.