Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic

• Autres auteurs: Lovell, J. (Éditeur intellectuel), Rowan, Yorke (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Council for British Research in the Levant 2011
• Sujets: Archaeology
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

To some, the Chalcolithic (4700/4500-3700/3600 BC cal.), as the first period with metallurgy, large sprawling villages, rich mortuary offerings, and cult centres, represents a developmental stage on the road to the urban Bronze Age, the "dawn of history". Others have called it 'the en...