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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lovell, Jaimie L. Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in the southern Levant. Oxford : Archaeopress : Hadrian Books [distributor], 2001 (OCoLC)604526161 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jaimie L Lovell |
| ISBN: | 1841712639 9781841712635 |
| OCLC Number: | 48381518 |
| Description: | viii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | BAR international series, 974.; Monographs of the Sydney University Teleilat Ghassul project, 1. |
| Responsibility: | Jaimie L. Lovell. |
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