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thumb|Copper sceptre from the [[Nahal Mishmar hoard (at Hecht Museum, Haifa)]] thumb|Ghassulian ossuary, ca. 3500 BC, [[Canaan (at the British Museum)]] thumb|The Ghassulian star

Key facts

Archaeological culture.name
Ghassulian
Archaeological culture.region
Southern Levant
Archaeological culture.period
Levantine Chalcolithic
Archaeological culture.dates
4400–3800 BC
Archaeological culture.typesite
Teleilat el-Ghassul
Archaeological culture.precededby
Wadi Rabah culture
Archaeological culture.followedby
Early Bronze Age (Canaan)

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Wikidata facts

Country
Jordan
Followed by
Canaan
Image
Star of Ghassul - Teleilat Ghassul - late Chalcolithic period - Rockefeller Museum.jpg
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Commons category
Ghassul culture
time period
Chalcolithic
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Definition
  • Origins
  • Ghassulian copper industry
  • Dates and transition phases
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|Copper sceptre from the [[Nahal Mishmar hoard (at Hecht Museum, Haifa)]] thumb|Ghassulian ossuary, ca. 3500 BC, [[Canaan (at the British Museum)]] thumb|The Ghassulian star

Ghassulian refers to a culture and an archaeological stage dating to the Middle and Late Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant (c. 4400 – c. 3500 BC). Its type-site, Teleilat el-Ghassul, is located in the eastern Jordan Valley near the northern edge of the Dead Sea, in modern Jordan. It was excavated in 1929-1938 and in 1959–1960, by the Jesuits. Basil Hennessy dug at the site in 1967 and in 1975–1977, and Stephen Bourke in 1994–1999.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghassulian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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