The culture has strong connections to the Faiyum A culture as well as the Levant. Merimde culture (5000–4200 BC) įrom about 5000 to 4200 BC, the Merimde culture, known only from a large settlement site at the edge of the Western Nile Delta, flourished in Lower Egypt.

Studies based on morphological, genetic, and archaeological data have attributed these settlements to migrants from the Fertile Crescent returning during the Neolithic Revolution, bringing agriculture to the region. The period from 9000 to 6000 BC has left very little archaeological evidence, but around 6000 BC, Neolithic settlements began to appear all over Egypt. 6000 BC to the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, around 3100 BC.Ĭontinued expansion of the desert forced the early ancestors of the Egyptians to settle around the Nile and adopt a more sedentary lifestyle during the Neolithic. Pre-Dynastic Egypt, corresponding to the Neolithic period of the prehistory of Egypt, spanned from c. Art of Pre-Dynastic Egypt (6000–3000 BC) Artifacts of Egypt from the Prehistoric period, 4400–3100 BC: clockwise from top left: a Badarian ivory figurine, a Naqada jar, a Bat figurine, a cosmetic palette, a flint knife, and a diorite vase.