protodynastic

In the Eastern Desert, you get some prehistoric stuff, but you get a lot more that seems to be protodynastic -- more boats and things.

Rock the Oasis 2006

Although known sporadically in the predynastic period, the falcon only becomes common in protodynastic, or Dynasty 0 times especially in connection with early royal names.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 6 2002

In EGYPT, the protodynastic unification of the northern and southern regions occurred by about 3000 B.C.E. INDUS VALLEY civilization began somewhat later, but by 2500 B.C.E., the two great cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were well established.

II. Ancient and Classical Periods, 3500 B.C.E.-500 C.E 2001

Whatever arguments they tried using to impress upon him the importance of the protodynastic pharaoh, whose life was a possible link between unrecorded and recorded history, their words fell on deaf ears.

From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

That latter ceremonial macehead, used more as an insignia of pomp and circumstance than an actual weapon, showed the protodynastic Scorpion King wearing the white crown of Egypt and ritually breaking ground for a canal, his courtiers looking on while a bearer squatted before him with a large basket for the resulting dirt.

From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

Jenny asked, knowing that this segment, plus that other macehead plus the scorpion petroglyph did not add up to proof positive that the protodynastic king of Egypt had lived and been buried here.

From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

The stone vessels discovered by Mr. Seager at Mokhlos, though wrought out of beautiful native materials, betray, according to Dr. Evans, the strong influence of protodynastic Egyptian models.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

a modern china cup, suggest at once the protodynastic Egyptian bowls of diorite and syenite, and show that if the Cretan took the idea from Egyptian models, he was not behind his master in the skill with which he carried it out.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898