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Socio-Economic Aspects of Chalcolithic (4500-3500 BC) Societies in the Southern Levant

A lithic perspective

£53.00
Author:
Sorin Hermon
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301860
Paperback:
212pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, tables, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
ISBN 10:
1407301861
BAR number:
S1744
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Description

BOOK 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 betweendebris and débitage.