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Ghassulian
Sign in to savethumb|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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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- 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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