A-Group culture

Chalcolithic Eneolithic, Aeneolithic, or Copper Age
↑ Stone Age ↑ Neolithic
By region Africa (2600 BC–1600 AD) Naqada culture, Gerzeh culture, A-Group culture, C-Group culture, Kerma culture West Asia (6000–3500 BC) Ghassulian culture, Uruk period Europe (5500–2200 BC) Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe Vinča culture, Varna culture Cucuteni–Trypillia culture Yamna culture, Corded Ware Cernavodă culture, Decea Mureşului culture, Gorneşti culture, Gumelniţa–Karanovo culture, Petreşti culture, Coțofeni culture Remedello culture, Gaudo culture, Monte Claro culture Central Asia (3700–1700 BC) Botai culture, BMAC culture, Afanasevo culture South Asia (4300–1800 BC) Periodisation of the Indus Valley civilisation, Bhirrana culture, Hakra Ware culture Ahar–Banas culture Kaytha culture, Malwa culture, Savalda Culture, Jorwe culture, Anarta tradition Ajay culture China (5000–2900 BC) Mesoamerica (6500–1000 BC)
Related topics Metallurgy, Wheel, Domestication of the horse
↓ Bronze Age ↓ Iron Age

The A-Group was the first powerful society in Nubia, located in modern northern Sudan and southern Egypt and flourished between the First and Second Cataracts of the Nile in Lower Nubia. It lasted from the 4th millennium BC, reached its climax at c. 3100 BC, and fell 200 years later c. 2900 BC.