Tarifian

Tarifian (about 4800 BC)

Epi-Palaeolithic (no evidence for agriculture or animal breeding) culture in Upper Egypt, known from two sites.
The basis of the economy is hunting/gathering.

el-Tarif

5400 flint artefacts were excavated Ginter/Kozlowski 1984: 248. Most of them are made from the local Theban flint. Among the tools retouched flakes and blades are the most common. The second common group are the scrapers. Only a very small percentage of the tools are the microlithic forms.

Pottery is not very common and preserved only in small fragments. The ceramics present with one exception no decoration.

Armant

Ginter/Kozlowski 1994: passim.