Gerzean, a. Archæol.
(gəˈziːən)
[f. El Gerzeh, name of a district in Egypt + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating the middle period of the ancient pre-Dynastic culture in Egypt.
| 1925 Catal. Antiquities at Badari (Brit. Sch. Archæol. in Egypt) 3 Approximate Dates. 13,000 b.c...Badarian Age, 10,000 b.c...Amratian Age, 9,000 b.c...Gerzean Age. 1928 Brunton & Caton-Thompson Badarian Civilisation i. i. 1 By ‘Predynastic’ is meant the age..which has been subdivided into the three divisions of Early (or Amratian), Middle (or Gerzean), and Late (or Semainian). 1949 W. F. Albright Archæol. of Palestine iv. 70 There was a large village and cemetery of Middle Gerzean date, roughly from about the third quarter of the fourth millennium. |