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About forty settlements and six hundred graves have been located. Social Stratification has been inferred from the burying of more prosperous members of the community in a different part of the cemetery. The Badarian economy was mostly based on Agriculture , Fishing and Animal Husbandry . Tools included End-scraper s, Perforator s, Axe s, bifacial Sickle s and concave-base Arrowhead s. Remains of cattle, dogs and sheep were found in the cemeteries. Wheat, barley, lentils and tubers were consumed. The culture is known largely from cemeteries in the low desert. The deceased were placed on mats and buried in pits with their heads usually laid to the south, looking west. The pottery that was buried with them is the most characteristic element of the Badarian culture. It had been given a distinctive, decorative rippled surface. ANCESTRAL ORIGINS The Badarian culture seems to have had multiple sources, of which the Western Desert was probably the most influential. Badari culture was probably not restricted to solely the Badari region, because related finds have been made farther to the south at Mahgar Dendera , Armant , Elkab and Nekhen (named ''Hierakonpolis'' by the Greeks) and to the east in the Wadi Hammamat . Numerous and South Africa n skulls were included in the baseline for a determination of "true negro" though, while the typically elongated East Africa n skull forms were disregarded, assumed not to indicate true blacks. Some recent studies additionally suggest a modal metric phentoype in Badarian crania indicative of the Tropical African {Link without Title} . Near the end of his paper (1971), Professor Strouhal further enumerated several Archaeological studies that suggest a Migration of Culture , Practice and Belief from Africa n regions located to the west and south of the Badarian sites. EXTERNAL LINKS
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