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Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic (Hardcover)
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Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic (Hardcover)
Series: Levant Supplementary Series, 9
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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 end of prehistory'. More recent
scholarship focuses upon the diversification of the subsistence
economy, elaborated craft production, and expanded networks for
resource acquisition. Many of today's Chalcolithic specialists were
taught by biblical archaeologists, such that the culture history
paradigm remains deeply embedded. This volume grew out of a
workshop held in Madrid in 2006 and aims to kick start a dialogue
about how to move beyond culture history and chronology in order to
re-engage with larger theoretical discourses. A vast swathe of
research in the region ignores these issues and considers theory to
be irrelevant. One has the impression that the political realities
of the region (including a predilection for biblical archaeology)
has left a large proportion of archaeologists in the region,
including prehistorians, lost without a map. Contributors to this
volume recognize that culture history is the platform upon which
current archaeological research is discussed but differ in the
degree of emphasis placed on previously defined entities or phases.
Delineating levels of difference and similarity between temporal
boundaries is critical in this process. The two themes of this
volume - culture and chronology - combine the need for theoretical
engagement with the establishment of broader, more precise
empirical data using explicit classificatory schemes. This is,
essentially, the rock and the hard place where much archaeological
debate is wedged, and as such the volume will have resonance for
scholars of other periods and regions.
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