Merimde

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Merimde Beni-Salame (the Merimde culture) is a Neolithic settlement site in the West delta of the Nile in Egypt. The site was discovered by Hermann Junker during his West Delta Expedition in 1928.

The settlement consists of small huts made of wattle and reed with a round or elliptical ground plan. There are no separate areas for cemeteries. The dead were buried within the settlement in a contracted position in oval pits without grave goods. Bodies of children were simply thrown into rubbish pits.

In the time of the Maadi culture the place was used as a cemetery.

Merimde Beni-salame is a Neolithic culture which corresponds in its later phase to Fayum Neolithic (Fayum A) and the Badari culture.

Dating: about 4750 - 4250 BC.

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• University College London
• CHRONOLOGY OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION