Evidence for Interregional Contacts between Late Prehistoric Lower and Upper Egypt - a View from Buto

The main ideas for the development of the late prehistoric cultures in Egypt were essentially worked out by Werner Kaiser in the last thirty years (Kaiser 1956; 1957; 1985; 1990). As a result we learned that the rise of the archaic Egyptian culture was built on two different traditions: Lower and Upper Egypt. These developed in two different ways in prehistory and came together when the Upper Egyptian Naqada culture expanded to the north and this led to the unification of Egypt. These ideas were for a long time argumenta ex silentio since archaeological records had not provided sufficient material until the last ten years, when the archaeology of the Nile Delta began to evolve