Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic | Yorke M. Rowan and Jaimie L. Lovell
2. Chalcolithic Culture History: Ghassulian and Other Entities in the Southern Levant | Isaac Gilead
3. Ghrubba: Ware or Culture? | Zeidan Kafafi
4. Changes in Material Culture at Late Neolithic Tabaquat al-Buma, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan | Edward B. Banning, Kevin Gibbs and Seiji Kadowaki
5. Continuity and Change - Cultural Transmission in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age I: A View from Early Modi'in, a Late Prehistoric Site in Central Israel | Edwin C. M. van den Brink
6. Desert Chronologies and Periodization Systems | Steven A. Rosen
7. Newly Discovered Burials of the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age I in Southern Canaan - Evidence of Cultural Continuity? | Amir Golani and Yossi Nagar
8. Societies in Transition: Contextualizing Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho | Nils Anfinset, Hamdan Taha, Mohammed al-Zawahra and Jehad Yasine
9. A Techno-Petrographic Approach for Defining Cultural Phases and Communities: Explaining the Variablility of Abu Hamid (Jordan Valley) Early 5th Millenium cal. BC Ceramic Assemblage | Valentine Roux, Marie Agnes Courty, Genevieve Dollfus and Jaimie L. L
10. Developmental Trends in Chalcolithic Copper Metallurgy: A Radiometric Perspective Changed the World | Aaron N. Shugar and Christopher J. Gohm
11. Canaanean Blades in Chalcolithic Contexts of the Southern Levant? | Ianir Milevski, Peter Fabian and Ofer Marder
12. The Transition from Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I in the Southern Levant: A 'Lost Horizon' Slowly Revealed | Eliot Braun
13. The End of the Chalcolithic Period (4500-3600 BC) in the Northern Negev Desert, Israel | Margie M. Burton and Thomas E. Levy
14. The Later Prehistory of the Southern Levant: Issues of Practice and Context | Graham Philip
Index