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Tasian, a. and n. Archæol.|ˈtɑːsɪən, ˈteɪʃ(ɪ)ən| [f. Deir Tasa, the name of a village in Upper Egypt, + -ian.] A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating the pre-Dynastic Neolithic culture represented by remains found at Deir Tasa. B. n. A person of the Tasian culture; the culture itself.
1929G. Brunton in Antiquity III. 459 This new cultural phase we have named Tasian from the village of Deir Tasa where the graves were first located. Ibid. 466 It may be premature to say definitely that the Tasians preceded the Badarians, but all the evidence points in that direction. 1931[see Badarian a.]. 1934V. G. Childe New Light on Most Anc. East iii. 52 Remains found at Deir Tasa and other sites on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt..belong to a people who have been termed Tasians. 1939― Dawn Europ. Civilization (ed. 3) xii. 218 Beaker-like vases decorated with zones of incision which might be clay translations of such basketry vessels occur in Egypt in the early ‘Tasian’ phase of culture. 1961G. Clark World Prehist. v. 103 Although no radiocarbon or absolute dates are available for the Tasian it is generally held on not very impressive evidence to have preceded the Badarian. |