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Ghassulian, the Glossary

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).^[1]

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Amratian culture

The Amratian culture, also called Naqada I, was an archaeological culture of prehistoric Upper Egypt. Ghassulian and Amratian culture are 4th-millennium BC disestablishments.

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Antiguo Oriente

Antiguo Oriente is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO) (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires).

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Basil Hennessy

John Basil Hennessy AO (10 February 1925 – 27 October 2013), was an Australian archaeologist of the Ancient Near East and Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.

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Beersheba

Beersheba, officially Be'er-Sheva (usually spelled Beer Sheva; Bəʾēr Ševaʿ,; Biʾr as-Sabʿ), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.

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The Beersheba culture is a Late Chalcolithic archaeological culture of the late 5th millennium BC (c. 4200–4000 BC), that was discovered in several sites near Beersheba, in the Beersheba Valley, in the northern Negev, in the 1950s. Ghassulian and Beersheba culture are Chalcolithic cultures of Asia.

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Beno Rothenberg

Beno Rothenberg (בנו רותנברג, October 23, 1914, in Frankfurt am Main – March 13, 2012, in Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Israeli photographer, archaeologist, and one of the founders of archaeometallurgy.

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Bir Abu Matar

Bir Abu Matar is an archaeological site in the Valley of Beersheba that contains remains dated to the Chalcolithic period.

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Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

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Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi

The Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi is a Ghassulian public building dating from about 3500 BCE.

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David Ussishkin

David Ussishkin (דוד אוסישקין; born 1935, aged) is an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus of archaeology.

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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.

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Dolmen

A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Glossary of archaeology

This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.

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History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine

History of Syria including Lebanon and Palestine is a book written by Philip Khuri Hitti and published in 1951.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israeli coastal plain

Israeli coastal plain (מישור החוף, Mishor HaḤof) is the Israeli segment of the Levantine coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, extending north to south.

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Jericho

Jericho (Arīḥā,; Yərīḥō) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine; it is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate of Palestine.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Jordan

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Jordan Rift Valley

The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley also called the Syro-African Depression, is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank.

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Jordan Valley

The Jordan Valley (Ghawr al-Urdunn; Emek HaYarden) forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley.

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Judaean Desert

The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Bariyah al-Khalil, Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the West Bank and Israel that lies east of the Judaean Mountains, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea.

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Late Neolithic

In the archaeology of Southwest Asia, the Late Neolithic, also known as the Ceramic Neolithic or Pottery Neolithic, is the final part of the Neolithic period, following on from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and preceding the Chalcolithic.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Levantine archaeology

Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

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Mudbrick

Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.

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Nahal Mishmar

Nahal Mishmar (Guard Stream) or Wadi Mahras (مَحْرَس) is a small seasonal stream in the Judean Desert in Israel.

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Negev

The Negev (hanNégev) or Negeb (an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.

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Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassulian

Also known as Ghassulian culture.

Ghassulian, the Glossary

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See also

4th-millennium BC disestablishments

5th-millennium BC establishments

Ancient Levant

Archaeological cultures in Jordan

Archaeological cultures in Palestine

Archaeological cultures of West Asia

Chalcolithic cultures of Asia

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