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Excavations at Quleh and Mazor (West) : burial practices and iconography in Southern Levantine Chalcolitihic cemeteries / Ianir Milevski, Ronit Lupu, Anat Cohen-Weinberger ; with contributions by Nuha Agha [and thirteen others].
Penn Museum Library DS111.1 .E93 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant ; v. 4.
- AESL : Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Cemeteries--Israel.
- Cemeteries.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Israel.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Grave goods--Israel.
- Grave goods.
- Copper age--Israel.
- Copper age.
- Israel--Antiquities.
- Israel.
- Cemeteries--Palestine.
- Tombs--Palestine.
- Tombs.
- Grave goods--Palestine.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Palestine.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Palestine--Antiquities.
- Palestine.
- Copper age--Palestine.
- Ghassul culture.
- Salvage archaeology--Israel.
- Salvage archaeology.
- ghassulian.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
- Other Title:
- Burial practices and iconography in Southern Levantine Chalcolitihic cemeteries
- Place of Publication:
- Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- This volume provides an overview of the excavations in two contiguous cemeteries of the Chalcolithic period, Quleh and Mazor (West), in the central coastal plain of Israel. The excavations were carried out as a salvage project on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority under the direction of Ianir Milevski. This volume presents in detail the excavated caves and the finds within them, including the pottery, ossuaries, lithic finds, human and faunal remains. The main issues in this volume relate to different analyses used for better understanding the site within its geographical landscape and chronological framework of the second half of the 5th millennium BC in the southern Levant. These analyses include the iconography, provenance and technological aspects of the ceramic vessels and clay ossuaries, and the distribution of the finds in the caves. In addition to being an excavation report, this volume includes synthesis studies of the distribution of settlements and cemeteries of the Chalcolithic Ghassulian culture, and the relationships between both types of sites and the burial system of that period. These relationships are deciphered by means of petrography and viewshed analysis utilizing GIS systems. The volume emphasizes the anthropological and social aspects of the iconography of the Ghassulian culture of the Chalcolithic period and a comprehensive view of the religious beliefs encompassed in these burial practices.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Ianir Milevski, Ronit Lupu and Anat Cohen-Weinberger
- Geomorphological setting / Eldad Barzilay
- Previous archaeological investigations in the area / Eliahu Shevo and Ianir Milevski
- The excavation of the Chalcolithic Cemetery of Quleh / Ianir Milevski
- The pottery vessels from Quleh / Ianir Milevski
- The clay ossuaries from Quleh / Ianir Milevski
- Technological aspects and pigments of the ossuaries from Quleh and a comparison with Peqiʿin / Elisheva Kamaisky
- The figurine from Cave K-1 at Quleh / Ianir Milevski
- Stone ossuaries and stone objects from Quleh / Ianir Milevski
- The chipped stone assemblage from Quleh / Jacob Vardi
- The human remains from Quleh / Deborah Sklar and Yossi Nagar
- Faunal remains from Quleh / Nuha Agha
- GIS research in Cave K-1 at Quleh and the distribution of finds / Leticia Barda, Michal Birkenfeld and Ianir Milevski
- The excavations at Mazor (West) / Ronit Lupu and Ianir Milevski
- The pottery and ossuaries from Caves B-1 and B-2 at Mazor (West): Chalcolithic period and early Bronze age I / Ronit Lupu
- The chipped stone assemblage from Cave B-2 at Mazor (West) / Omry Barzilai
- The groundstones and small finds from Mazor (West) / Ianir Milevski
- The anthropological remains from Cave B-2 at Mazor (West) / Yossi Nagar and Deborah Sklar
- Fauna and molluscs from Cave B-2 at Mazor (West) / Liora Kolska Horwitz and Henk K. Mienis
- Quleh and Mazor (West) burial caves and the settlements that used them in light of petrographic analyses / Anat Cohen-Weinberger
- Regional and viewshed analyses of burial sites and settlements in the area of Quleh and Mazor (West) / Michal Birkenfeld and Ianir Milevski
- A comparison of Quleh and Mazor (West) with other Chalcolithic cemeteries / Atalya Fadida and Ianir Milevski
- The iconography of Quleh and the religious beliefs of the Chalcolithic period: a socio-anthropological viewpoint / Ianir Milevski
- The Chalcolithic cemeteries of Quleh and Mazor (West). Discussion and conclusions / Ianir Milevski, Ronit Lupu, Atalya Fadida and Anat Cohen-Weinberger.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-322).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783700183761
- 3700183763
- OCLC:
- 1401171926
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