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Central Indian Chalcolithic

2002
A gradual process of development speeded by favorable climatic changes and increased cultural contacts led to the development of the Chalcolithic cultures of Central India between 5000–3200 B.P. Existing Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities with rural economies based on agriculture and pastoralism gradually developed first into incipient chiefdom ...
Vasant Shinde, Shweta Sinha Deshpande
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Ghassulian Chalcolithic Presence at Jericho

Levant, 1999
AbstractThis article challenges the well-established concept that no traces of human activity are known from Jericho during the Chalcolithic period. A forgotten assemblage from Garstang's excavations clearly indicates a Ghassulian presence at the site.
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The Chalcolithic Age in Palestine

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1932
Lowland one, to which latter the Jemdet Nasr civilization seems to point. In this connection I am not concerned so much with the difference between polychrome and monochrome decoration; for, in the first place, both types occur at Jemdet Nasr and at Susa II, and, secondly, prehistoric Gawra (levels 9 down), which corresponds with the el-'Obeid period ...
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A Chalcolithic Temple at Gilath

The Biblical Archaeologist, 1977
From the vineyards of Moshav Gilath has come evidence of a cult that dates to Chalcolithic times. The rich artifactual finds yield information not only about the religious practice of the times, but also, through comparison with the material culture of neighboring civilizations, about the economic and political relations enjoyed by this area of the ...
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Southeastern European Early Chalcolithic

2001
The Chalcolithic tradition evolved during the Atlantic climatic optimum, characterized by hot and humid summers and mild winters. The tradition ends with the completion of the climatic optimum, characterized by higher temperatures, a decrease in rainfall quantity, and aridization of the climate at the beginning of the Subboreal.
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Chalcolithic Southern Levant

As a prehistoric religion, the belief system of the Chalcolithic Southern Levant is predominantly reconstructed based on the material remnants of past ritual practices interpreted by archaeologists. The period experienced both continuity with Neolithic practices, as well as a suite of new ritual practices that reflect a transformation to the system of ...
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The Chalcolithic of Eastern Anatolia

2012
This article presents data on the Chalcolithic of eastern Anatolia. After the end of the sixth millennium BCE and throughout the whole of the fifth, the cultural developments in the region are decidedly more difficult to establish because of a very serious dearth of information.
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Anatolian Contacts with Chalcolithic Cyprus

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1991
Occasional contacts between Cyprus and the nearest stretch of Anatolian coast are attested as early as the Aceramic Neolithic period when a small amount of Anatolian obsidian reached Cyprus.
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Stone Sculpture in Chalcolithic Cyprus

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1991
La sculpture de pierre dans la Chypre prehistorique a une longue tradition qui part du Neolithique aceramique et dont le developpement est facile a suivre jusqu'au Chalcolithique. Emploi de la picrolithe originaire du S.-O. de Chypre. Connexion avec la tradition figurative des regions avoisinantes comme le Levant et l'Anatolie; similarites avec les ...
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Late Chalcolithic Pottery from ‘Affûleh

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 1936
THE last few years of archceological research in Palestine have brought a great increase in our knowledge of the early culture in this country. Thanks to the recent excavations in Tuleilat el-Ghassul, Wadi Ghazzeh, Megiddo and Beth-shan we have gained a knowledge of these remote, hitherto unknown periods.1 Of special importance for the study of the ...
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