Merimde culture

Merimde culture

Merimde clay head, Predynastic Period, Maadi Era, 4th millennium BCE. This is one of the earliest known representations of a human head in Egypt. Merimde Beni Salama
Geographical range	Egypt
Period	Neolithic
Dates	c. 4,800 BC — 4,300 BC
Characteristics	Contemporary with Tasian culture, Badari culture
Preceded by	Faiyum A culture
Followed by	Amratian culture

The Merimde culture (also Merimde Beni-Salame or Benisalam) (Arabic: مرمدة بني سلامة) was a Neolithic culture in the West Nile Delta in Lower Egypt, which corresponds in its later phase to the Faiyum A culture and the Badari culture in Predynastic Egypt. It is estimated that the culture evolved between 4800 and 4300 BC.^[1] Merimde also refers to the archaeological site of the same name.