Badarian culture trade

Trade/Foreign relations in the Badarian period

copper	ivory	Shells	Turquoise
			used for beads, found in tombs 125, 5106, 5403, 5738, 5397 (not in Digital Egypt)
from Sinai?	local or from south	Red Sea Shore	possibly from Sinai

basalt vase (not in Digital Egypt; Brunton/Caton-Thompson 1928: 28) Delta region, northwest

A four-handled pot of hard pink ware indicates Syrian connections (Brunton/Caton-Thompson 1928: 24)

Bibliography:

Brunton/Caton-Thompson 1928: 41
Hendrickx/Vermeersch 2000: 43
Midant-Reynes 1992: 155-156 (detailed discussion of the foreign relations, especially with the Near East)
Trigger 1983: 29