Abstract
A small-scale salvage excavation was conducted in 1955 to the west of Kibbutz Sde-Eliyahu in the Central Jordan Valley. The excavation was directed by Shlomo Goldschmidt on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities. Few fragmentary architectural features and sediment accumulations were exposed, containing a fairly large quantity of Chalcolithic finds. The excacavation was never published, even though the site was re-surveyed in the late 1970'a hy R. Gophna. This paper presents a final excavation report of the 1955 excavation, and deals with the site's chronological position along the northern Chalcolithic cultural sequence. It turns out, as was already claimed by Sadeh and Gophna following the survey results, that the site's ceramic typology represents a transition between pre-Ghassulian and Ghassulian Chalcolithic horizons.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 419-451 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Journal | מתקופת האבן |
| Volume | 37 |
| State | Published - 2007 |
IHP publications
- IHP publications
- Antiquities, Prehistoric
- Bowls (Tableware)
- Copper age
- Eretz Israel -- Antiquities -- To Biblical period, 1200 B.C
- Figurines
- Ghassul culture
- Handles
- Pottery, Ancient
- Reservoirs
- Sde Eliyahu (Israel)
