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Naqada or '''Naquada''' is a village about 80km north of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile in southern Egypt , ( Upper Egypt ). It stands near the site of a Necropolis from the prehistoric, Pre-dynastic Period around 4400 - 3000 BCE . Naqada has given its name to the widespread '''Naqada culture''' that existed at the time, here, and at other sites including Badari , Gerzeh , Hierakonopolis (or Nekhen ), and Qau . The large quantity of remains from Naqada have enabled the dating of the entire culture, throughout Egypt and environs. NAQADA DATING SCHEME Flinders Petrie The Naqada period was first divided by the British Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie , who explored the site in 1894 , into three sub-periods:
Modern Petrie's chronology was superseded by that of Werner Kaiser in 1957 . Kaiser's chronology began c. 4000 BC, but the modern version begins slightly earlier, as follows:
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