Masters of fire
Subtitle: Copper Age art from Israel
By: edited by Michael Sebbane, Osnat Misch-Brandl, and Daniel M. Master ; including contributions by Thomas E. Levy [and six others]
Contributors: New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780691162867
Subjects: Copper age; Exhibitions; Ancient Copperwork
Notes: Maps on lining papers.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Masters of fire: Copper Age art from Israel, held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, February 13-June 8, 2014, and at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 28, 2014-January 4, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-182).
Table of contents: title: The discovery of the Chalcolithic Period / Daniel M. Master; title: Cultural transformations : the Chalcolithic southern levant / Thomas E. Levy; title: Imagery in the Chalcolithic Period / Dina Shalem; title: Spiritual life in the southern levant during the late Chalcolithic Period, 4500-3600 BCE / Osnat Misch-Brandl; title: The mortuary process in the Chalcolithic Period / Yorke M. Rowan; title: The hoard from Naḥal Mishmar, and the metalworking industry in Israel in the Chalcolithic Period / Michael Sebbane; title: Textiles, basketry, and other organic artifacts of the Chalcolithic Period in the southern levant / Orit Shamir.