Sais II: The Prehistoric Period is the final publication of the
EES/Durham/SCA excavations carried out in 2007 in the 'Great Pit' at Sa
el-Hagar, ancient Sais. It contains a full discussion of the layers
dating to the Neolithic and Buto-Maadi Periods, with specialist reports
on the chipped and ground stone tools, small finds, pottery, animal
bones and flora. As the only Neolithic site so far excavated on the Nile
floodplain in Egypt, the site has important implications for
understanding the Neolithisation of the Delta and the development of
Predynastic settlements in the north of Egypt.