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Chapter 1 ("Climate and Landscape") deals with long-term ecological trends that had affected the genesis of Ancient Egyptian civilization. Particular importance is attached to the latest reconstruction of principal climatic rhythms of the Holocene carried out in Moscow Institute of Energy (Russia). Special attention is paid to variations of the Nile discharge and silt deposition, as well as to the eustatic processes by the Delta shoreline.
Chapter 2 ("Enclave Protostate"), analyzing ecological and archaeological data, presents a novel conception of enclave territorial structure of the Archaic state in Egypt, with two capital centres of formation: Memphis at the Delta apex and Thinis in Upper Land. This conception differs fundamentally from traditional egyptological versions of centralized and despotic nature of the early Egyptian state.
Chapter 3 ("Gift-Exchange") paves the way to social-anthropological interpretation of pharaonic history. The hypothesis is argued that primitive gift-exchange was the basic principle of the Early Dynastic political organization in Egypt.