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The late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in the southern Levant : new data from the site of Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan / Jaimie L. Lovell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovell, Jaimie L.
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 974.
- Monographs of the Sydney University Teleilat Ghassul project ; 1.
- BAR international series ; 974
- Monographs of the Sydney University Teleilat Ghassul project ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghassul Site (Jordan).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Jordan.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Neolithic period--Jordan--Ghassul Site.
- Neolithic period.
- Copper age--Jordan--Ghassul Site.
- Copper age.
- Jordan--Antiquities.
- Jordan.
- Ghassul Site (Jordan)--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Jordan--Ghassul Site.
- Prehistoric peoples--Jordan--Ghassul Site.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Jordan--Ghassul Site.
- Local Subjects:
- Ghassul Site (Jordan)--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress : Hadrian Books [distributor], 2001.
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. The history of research
- Teleilat Ghassul and the Chalcolithic period
- Post-war period
- Recent research and regional assemblages
- The re-excavation of Teleilat Ghassul
- The last twenty years
- Late Neolithic ceramic assemblages : Yarmoukian
- Jericho PNA/Jericho IX and the Lodian
- The Wadi Rabah horizon
- Wadi Rabah variants
- The Qatifian and Besorian
- Chalcolithic ceramic assemblages : the Tsafian
- Cream ware
- The Ghassul/Beersheva horizon
- Socio-economic development
- ch. 2. Reconstructing the environmental context
- Geographical setting
- Present day topography and rainfall
- The general picture for the Holocene in the Near East
- Specific data relating to the Dead Sea
- Geological processes since the Chalcolithic
- General background subsistence in the Chalcolithic
- Lithics
- Ceramics
- Architecture
- Changes in environmental expoitation
- Animals for transport and traction
- Specific data on subsistance
- Archaeozoological data
- Archaebotanical data
- Resources available to communities in the Dead Sea
- Copper
- Salt
- Biotumen
- ch. 3. The stratigraphy of Area A at Teleilat Ghassul
- Introduction
- Stratigraphy
- AX and AXI, methodology under Bourke
- Area A, Sondage XI
- Area A, Sondage X
- Hennessy's sequence
- Area A, square II
- Area A, Square III
- Summary of the architectural sequence
- Ch. 4. The ceramic sequence
- The development of typologies in the Near East
- The Teleilat Ghassul sequence
- Excavation
- Post-excavation
- Presentation of the data
- Fabric distinctions
- The catalogue
- The Late Neolithic phases (J,I and H)
- The Early Chalcolithic phase (G and GH)
- The Middle Chalcolithic phases (F, D and E)
- The Late Chalcolithic phase (C, B, A and A+)
- Fabric/form correlations
- General trends
- Discussion
- Estimated vessel equivalents
- Specific chemical studies
- PIXE/PIGME results
- Ceramics and socio-economic theory
- Ethnographic context for potting in prehistory
- Standardisation and specialisation at Teleilat Ghassul
- Variablility
- ch. 5. The sequence in context
- Periodisation and "ceramic cultures"
- Jericho VIII and IX
- The stratigraphic evidence
- Ceramic parallels
- Remarks
- Radiometric dates for the Late Neolithic-Late Chalcolithic
- Typological correlations
- Summary of the implications for Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic settlement
- ch. 6. Conclusions
- The Late Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic development
- The Late Chalcolithic
- Teleilat Ghassul in a regional context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-256).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2025.
- Print version record
- ISBN:
- 9781407353258
- 140735325X
- OCLC:
- 1483807856
- Publisher Number:
- S974 BAR Publishing
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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