Socio-economic aspects of Chalcolithic (4500-3500 BC) societies in the Southern Levant
Subtitle: a lithic perspective
By: Sorin Hermon.
Series: BAR international series -- 1744
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books [distributor
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781407301860
Subjects: Copper age -- Middle East; Tools, Prehistoric -- Middle East; Stone implements -- Middle East; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East; Middle East -- Antiquities
Description: "This work summarizes a techno-typological analysis of Chalcolithic (c. 4500-3500 B.C.) lithic assemblages from Southern Levant (sites from Israel, the Golan heights, the Jordan valley, Southern and eastern Jordan and eastern and north-eastern Sinai). This period witnessed major changes in the lifestyles of inhabitants in this region, representing the peak of a long development in the rural life, a process that started with first Neolithic villages and ended up in the Early Bronze Age period, with the establishment of first towns. All accessible assemblages dated to the above mentioned period have been studied in the laboratory. More than 200,000 flint artefacts were included in this work, among them c. 20,000 tools, the rest being equally divided between debris and débitage."--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Aims and methodological framework; title: Negev sites; title: Central Israel sites; title: Northern Israel sites; title: Sites in Jordan; title: Desert sites of Israel and Sinai; title: Description of results; title: Conclusion.