Jade Bajeot

• Phd
• PostDoc Position at Institute of mediterranean and oriental cultures Polish Academy of Sciences

This article investigates the social landscape of the First Nile Cataract region in the 4th mill. BCE through the application of petrographic and technological approaches to pottery analysis. The study focuses on the ceramic assemblages from the settlement WK15 and the necropolis WK14 at Nag el-Qarmila and identifies for the first time three techni...

Advances in archaeological science (e.g., aDNA and isotopes analyses) are challenging traditional archaeological narratives and posing new questions especially regarding major transformations in European and Mediterranean societies during prehistoric times. Ceramic is an important component of the material record and gives us insights into cultural...

This paper aims at presenting the preliminary results of the technological study carried out on the pottery of several Predynastic sites investigated in the Aswan region by the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project. The region of the First Cataract was since prehistoric times an important crossroad of the Greater Nile Valley, and with the end of th...

This paper presents the results of a reassessment of the Predynastic Egyptian Fibrous Ware (Naqada IIA–B–Naqada IIIA2–B) diffused in Egypt and beyond. Fibrous Ware is characterised by a particular temper made of long fibres and has been defined as a typical Lower Egyptian ceramic production. The present study is based on the technological analysis...

This paper aims at presenting the results of the technological study carried out on the pottery of Tell el-Iswid, Tell el-Samara and on a sample collection from Tell el-Fara’in/Buto. The objective was to characterise the pottery tradition of theLower Egyptian Culture to shed new light on the sociological landscape of the Delta during the 4th millen...

This article focuses on ceramic technology at Tell el-Iswid dating to the second half of the fourth millennium BC—Buto IIIa and Naqada III(A2)-B periods. The study investigates the crucial transitional period during the formation of the Egyptian State. It identifies four ceramic technical traditions and examines their respective evolution and inter...

This paper focuses on the functional analysis of a specific oval shaped basin diffused in Lower Egyptian Predynastic sites during the first half of the 4th millennium BC. These oval shallow ceramic basins are characterised by a flat and wide inner surface that is covered by a layer of small rock fragments pressed into the clay matrix. Several arche...

This study aims at characterising the pottery tradition of the Lower Egyptian Culture to shed new light on the sociological landscape of the Delta region at the beginning of the 4th millennium BC. The analytical method chosen to address this issue is the chaîne opératoire approach as it proved to be particularly well suited to define the local trad...