From the early Old Kingdom to the Badarian. Preliminary report on the 2012 excavation campaign in the settlement area of Elkab

Wouter Claes1, stan HendriCkx2, anne devillers1, elizabetH Hart3, karin kindermann4, morgan de dapper5, salima ikram6, geertrui storms2, Carla sWerts2 & dirk Huyge1 1Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium, 2MAD-Faculty, Hasselt, Belgium, 3University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, 4University of Cologne, Köln, Germany, 5Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, 6American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt