Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6043898 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nissim Amzallag (0000-0002-9999-7052, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 445-465 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774321000524 |
| OpenAlex | W4200014818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 68 |
The causes of the disappearance of Late Chalcolithic society (Ghassulian) in the early fourth millenniumbcremain obscure. This study identifies the collapse as the consequence of a change in the approach to metallurgy from cosmological fundament (Late Chalcolithic) to a practical craft (EB1). This endogenous transition accounts for the cultural recession characterizing the transitional period (EB1A) and the discontinuity in ritual practices. The new practical approach in metallurgy is firstly observed in the southern margin of the Ghassulian culture, which produced copper for distribution in the Nile valley rather than the southern Levant. Nevertheless, the Ghassulian cultural markers visible in the newly emerging areas of copper working (southern coastal plain, Nile valley) denote the survival of the old cosmological traditions among metalworkers of the EB1 culture. Their religious expression unveils the extension of the Ghassulian beliefs attached to metallurgy and their metamorphosis into the esoteric fundaments of the Bronze Age religions
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · Geography · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The archaeology of society in the Holy Land
The Neolithic-Chalcolithic Transition and the Qatifian of the Northern Negev and Sinai
Reconstructing networks, linking spaces—the view from the Aqaba region (Jordan)
The Ghassulian Culture in Palestine
Late Holocene climates of the Near East deduced from Dead Sea level variations and modern regional winter rainfall
The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
‘Isaac went out to the field’
Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis
Late Quaternary Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotope Analysis of Speleothems at Soreq Cave, Israel
Farmers and Their Languages
Neolithic Versus Bronze Age Social Formations
Deconstructing and Recomposing the Narrative of Spiritual Life in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant (4500–3600 B.C.E.)
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
Technopoiesis—the Forgotten Dimension of Early Technique Development
A Large Copper Artefacts Assemblage of Fazael, Jordan Valley
Secondary burial cemeteries, visibility and land tenure
Dolmen 317 and Its Hidden Burial
On Early Bronze Age Copper Bar Ingots from the Southern Levant
Settlement and Demographic Processes in Israel's Coastal Plain from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
The Chalcolithic Period of the Southern Levant
Firing up the furnace
The Ghassulian Ceramic Tradition
Practical and prestige technologies
A Holocene millennial-scale climatic cycle from a speleothem in Nahal Qanah Cave, Israel
The Holocene climatic record of the salt caves of Mount Sedom Israel
The Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant
The location of specialized copper production by the lost wax technique in the Chalcolithic southern Levant
Glyptic Evidence for a Connection between Iran, Syro-Palestine and Egypt in the Fourth and Third Millennia
Feinan and the Mediterranean During the Early Bronze Age
Climate and the Late Bronze Collapse
Early Bronze Age copper production systems in the northern Arabah Valley
Metalworking at H azor
Les Bols élaborés au tour d'Abu Hamid
Mehen, Mysteries, and Resurrection from the Coiled Serpent
The Khonsu Cosmogony
The Origins of Social Complexity in The Southern Levant
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4
Maadi I
New Radiocarbon Dates for the Reed Mat from the Cave of the Treasure, Israel
Chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant
The Metallurgy of the Nahal Mishmar Hoard Reconsidered
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
New Light on the Development of Chalcolithic Metal Technology in the Southern Levant
Some remarks on the chronological position of the Predynastic settlement at Maadi (Egypt) and its relations to the Southern Levant
Evolution in the Desert
The Organisation of Early Bronze Age Metalworking in the Southern Levant
Shifting Subsistence Patterns
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age I Transition in the Southern Levant
The Transition from the Late Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze I in Southwestern Canaan – Ashqelon as a Case for Continuity
The chalcolithic period in the Levant
From Metallurgy to Bronze Age Civilizations
The Archaeology of Palestine from the Neolithic through the Middle Bronze Age
The change in metal production from the Chalcolithic period to the Early Bronze Age in Israel and Jordan
Hoards of the early and middle Bronze ages in the Levant
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |