Political change in the late Predynastic and Protodynastic of ancient Egypt.

Throughout the twentieth century the hypothetical and theoretical process of ‘state formation’ has increasingly dominated our focus on the sociopolitical development of predynastic and protodynastic Egypt. State formation has become the dominant theme for social change in early Egypt. However, state formation as a process of socio-political change is a substantially different process to essential political change. Political change within intraethnic groups of early historic regions like ancient Egypt and north eastern Africa is indeed very difficult to ascertain but none the less not impossible. We have a wealth of anthropological material which gives us information relating to pre-European north east and east African people which is academically referred to as kinship affiliation to inform us as to the sociopolitical landscape of the earliest inhabitants of the region. It is therefore the intention of the disputant to outline what a process of political change was in the period of the late predynastic and protodynastic of Egypt through current research by the disputant as well as previous and substantial outlines by others.