The search for the origins and consequences of food production occupied a prominent part in archaeology for more than a century. During the last decades more effort was put on investigations regarding chronological and spatial variations of subsistence strategies. Due to the foreign origin and the seemingly late adoption of agriculture Egypt was rarely considered in the development of general explanations. To fill this gap archaeozoological data from 22 neolithic and chalcolithic sites in the Egyptian Nile Valley as well as some more from the Western Desert were compared. Besides an earlier introduction of domesticates from the Near East the transition from foragers to agriculturists has to be conceived as a gradual process induced by population growth and limited food resources (→ diversification). The high variation in subsistence strategies during the 5th and 4th millennium BC was affected by natural, cultural, social and economical factors. The production of surplus combined with an unequal distribution of food resources resulted in trade, an increasing socioeconomical stratification and in the end to the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.dreven-iztok.ucoz/board/dreven_egipet_i_afrika/ikonomika_stopanstvo_i_trgovija/mona_abd_el_karem_die_nutzung_tierischer_ressourcen_in_agypten/95-1-0-1216
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