The Origins of Social Complexity in The Southern Levant: New Evidence From Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan

Bibliography

• Aardsma, G., 2000. ‘Redating the Cave of the Treasure mat’, Abstracts of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Jerusalem), 69.
   Google Scholar
• Akkermans, P. & Duistermaat, K., 1997. ‘Of storage and nomads: The sealings of Late Neolithic Sabi Abyad, Syria’, Paleorient, 22, 17–44.
   Google Scholar
• Alon, D. & Levy, T., 1989. ‘The archaeology of cult and the Chalcolithic structures at Gnat’, JMA 2, 163–221.
   Google Scholar
• Amiran, R., 1955. ‘The 'Cream Ware’ of Gezer and the Beersheba Late Chalcolithic', IEJ, 4, 240–45.
   Google Scholar
• Amr, K., Najjar, M., Kerner, S., Rielly, K. & McCreery, D., 1993. ‘Wadi al-Qattar salvage excavation 1989’, ADAJ, 38, 263–78.
   Google Scholar
• Aston, B., Harrell, J. & Shaw, I., 2000. ‘Stone’, in P. Nicholson & I. Shaw (eds), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge), 5–77.
   Google Scholar
• Baines, J., 1989. ‘Literacy, social organisation, and the archaeological record: the case for early Egypt’, in J. Gledhill et al. (eds.), State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization (London), 192–214.
   Google Scholar
• Baird, D., 1987. ‘A preliminary analysis of the chipped stone from the 1985 excavations at Tell esh-Shuna North’, ADAJ, 31, 461–80.
   Google Scholar
• Banning, E., Rahimi, D., Siggers, J. & Ta'ani, H., 1996. ‘The 1992 season of excavations in Wadi Zicilab, Jordan’, ADAY, 40, 29-50.
   Google Scholar
• Bar-Adon, P., 1980. The Cave of the Treasure (Jerusalem).
   Google Scholar
• Ben-Tor, A., 1995. ‘A stamp seal and a seal impression of the Chalcolithic period from Grar’, in I. Gilead (ed.), Grar: A Chalcolithic Site in the Northern Negev, 361-75 (Beersheva).
   Google Scholar
• Blackham, M., 1999. ‘Teleilat Ghassul: An appraisal of Robert North's excavations (1959-1960)’, Levant, 31, 19–64.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., 1997a. ‘The urbanisation process in the South Jordan Valley: Renewed excavations at Teleilat Ghassul 1994/1995’, SHAJ, VI, 249-59.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., 1997b. ‘The 'pre-Ghassulian’ sequence at Teleilat Ghassul', in H-G. Gebel et al. (eds.), The Prehistog of Jordan II: Perspectives from 1997 (Berlin), 395–417.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S. 1997c. ‘Pre-classical Pella in Jordan: A conspectus of ten years’ work (1985-1995)’, PEQ 129, 94-115.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., in press. 'Teleilat Ghassul: Foreign relations in the Late Chalcolithic period’, in T. Levy & E. van den Brink (eds.), Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction.from the Fourth through Third Millennium BCE (Jerusalem).
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., Sparks, R., Sowada, K., McLaren, P. & Mairs, L., 1998. Preliminary report on the University of Sydney's sixteenth and seventeenth seasons of excavations at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1994/95. ADAJ, 42, 179–211.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., Lovell, J., Sparks, R., Seaton, P., Mairs, L. & Meadows J., 2000. ‘Preliminary report on a second and third season of renewed excavations at Teleilat Ghassul by the University of Sydney, 1995/1997’, ADAJ, 44, 37–89.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., Lawson, E., Lovell, J., Hua, Q., Zoppi, U. & Barbetti, M., in press. 'The chronology of the Ghassulian Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant: New C 14 determinations from Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan', Radiocarbon.
   Google Scholar
• Bourke, S., daCosta, K., Sparks, R., McLaren, P., Mairs, L. & Meadows J., forthcoming. 'Preliminary report on the University of Sydney's eighteenth and nineteenth seasons of excavations at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1996/97', ADAJ, 46, forthcoming.
   Google Scholar
• Cameron, D., 1985. The Ghassulian Wall Paintings (London).
   Google Scholar
• Campbell, S., 2000. ‘The Burnt House at Arpachiyeh: A reexamination’, BASOR, 318, 1–40.
   Google Scholar
• Campbell, S., Carter, E., Healey, E., Anderson, S., Kennedy, A. & Whitcher, S., 1999. 'Emerging complexity on the Kahramanmaras Plain, Turkey: The Domuztepe Project 1995-1997', AjA, 103, 395–418.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carneiro, R., 1970. ‘A theory for the origin of the state’, Science, 169: 733–38.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clark, V., 1978/79. ‘Investigations in a prehistoric necropolis near Bab edh-Dhra’, ADAJ 22-23, 57–77.
   Google Scholar
• de Contenson, H., 1964. ‘The 1953 survey in the Yarmouk and Jordan valleys’, ADAJ, 8-9: 30-46.
   Google Scholar
• Dollfus, G. & Kafafi, Z., 1989. ‘Abu Hamid’, in D. Homès-Fredericq &J. B. Hennessy (eds.), Archaeology ofJordan 2. Vol. III Field Reports. Surveys and Sites A-K (Leuven), 102–13.
   Google Scholar
• Dollfus, G & Kafafi, Z., 1993. ‘Recent Researches at Abu Hamid’, ADAJ, 37, 241–62.
   Google Scholar
• Dollfus, G. & Kafafi, Z., 1995. ‘Representations humains et animales sur le site d'Abu Hamid’, SHAJ, V, 449-57.
   Google Scholar
• Elliot, C., 1977. ‘The religious beliefs of the Ghassulians’, PEQ 109, 3–25.
   Google Scholar
• Epstein, C., 1985. ‘Laden animal figurines from the Chalcolithic period in Palestine’, BASOR, 258, 53–62.
   Google Scholar
• Epstein, C., 5993. ‘Oil production in the Golan Heights during the Chalcolithic Period’, TA, 20, 133-46.
   Google Scholar
• Epstein, C., 2001. 'The significance of ceramic assemblages in Chalcolithic burial contexts in Israel and neighbouring regions in the southern Levant', Levant, 33, 81–94.
   Google Scholar
• Falconer, S. E. & Savage, S. H., 1995. 'Heartlands and hinterlands: Alternative trajectories of early urbanisation in Mesopotamia and the southern Levant', AA, 60, 37–58.
   Google Scholar
• Gilead, I., 1988. 'The Chalcolithic period in the Levant' JWP, 2, 397–443.
   Google Scholar
• Gilead, I., 1994. 'The history of the Chalcolithic settlement in the Nahal Beer Sheva area: The radiocarbon aspect', BASOR, 296, 1–13.
   Google Scholar
• Gophna, R & Sadeh, S., 1988/89. ‘Excavations at Tel Tsaf: An Early Chalcolithic site in the Jordan Valley’, TA, 15/16, 3–36.
   Google Scholar
• Grigson, C., 1995. ‘Plough and pasture in the early economy of the southern Levant’, in T. Levy (ed.), The Archaeology of Society in the Hob) Land (London), 245–68.
   Google Scholar
• Hanbury-Tenison, J., 1986. The Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I Transition in Palestine and Tranjordan (Oxford).
   Google Scholar
• Hassan, F., 1985. ‘Radiocarbon chronology of Neolithic and Predynastic sites in Upper Egypt and the Delta’, AAR, 3, 95–116.
   Google Scholar
• Hassan, F., 1997. ‘Nile floods and political disorder in Early Egypt’, in H. Dalfes et al. (eds), Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse (Berlin), 1–23.
   Google Scholar
• Helms, S., 1991. ‘Stamped, incised and painted designs’, in A. Betts (ed.), Excavations at Jawa 1972-1986 (Edinburgh), 113–24.
   Google Scholar
• Hennessy, J. B., 5969. ‘Preliminary report on a first season of excavations at Teleilat Ghassul’, Levant, I, 1-24.
   Google Scholar
• Hennessy, J. B., 1982. ‘Teleilat Ghassul and its place in the archaeology ofJordan’, SHAJ, 1,55–58.
   Google Scholar
• Hennessy, J. B., 1989. ‘Ghassul, Teleilat’, in D. Homes-Fredericq &J. B. Hennessy (eds), Archaeology of Jordan 2. Vol. 11.1 Field Reports. Smogs and Sites A-K, 230-4 i (Leuven).
   Google Scholar
• Henry, D., 1995. Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan (New York).
   Google Scholar
• Hole, F., 1997. ‘Evidence for Mid-Holocene environmental change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria’, in H. Dalfes et al. (eds), Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse (Berlin), 39–66.
   Google Scholar
• Ibrahim, M., 1983. ‘Siegel und Siegelabdrucke aus Sahab’, ZDPV, 99,43–53.
   Google Scholar
• Ibrahim, M., 1987. `Sahab and its foreign relations', SI-147, III, 73-81.
   Google Scholar
• Ibrahim, M., Sauer, J. & Yassine, K., 1976. ‘The East Jordan Valley Survey’, BASOR, 222, 41–66.
   Google Scholar
• Ibrahim, M., Sauer, J. & Yassine, K., 1988. ‘The East Jordan Valley Survey, 1976: Part 2’, in K. Yassine (ed.), Archaeology ofjordan: Essays and Reports (Amman), 189–207.
   Google Scholar
• Joffe, A. 1993. Settlement and Society in Early Bronze Age land II Southern Levant (Sheffield).
   Google Scholar
• Joffe, A & Dessel, J.-P., 1995. ‘Redefining chronology and terminology for the Chalcolithic of the southern Levant’, CA, 36, 507–18.
   Google Scholar
• Jull, A., Donahue, D., Carmi, I. & Segal, D., 1998. ‘Radiocarbon dating of finds’, in T. Schick (ed.), The Cave of the Warrior (Jerusalem), 110–12.
   Google Scholar
• Kantor, H., 1992. ‘The relative chronology of Egypt and its foreign correlations before the First Intermediate Period’, R. Ehrich (ed.), Chronologies in Old World Archaeology (Chicago), 3–21.
   Google Scholar
• Kaplan, J., 1959. ‘The connections of the Palestinian Chalcolithic culture with Prehistoric Egypt’, IEj, 9, 134–36.
   Google Scholar
• Kaplan, J., 1960. The relation of the Chalcolithic pottery of Palestine to Halafian Ware', BASOR, 159, 32–36.
   Google Scholar
• Koeppel, R., Mallon, R., & Neuville, R., 1940. Teleilat Ghassul II (Rome).
   Google Scholar
• Lee, J., 1973. Chalcolithic Ghassul: New Aspects and Master Typo/ogy. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
   Google Scholar
• Levy, T., 1992. ‘Radiocarbon dating of the Beersheba culture and Predynastic Egypt’, E. C. M. van den Brink (ed.), The Nile Delta in Transition: 4th-3rd Millennium BC(Jerusalem), 345–56.
   Google Scholar
• Levy, T., 1995. ‘Cult, metallurgy and rank societies - Chalcolithic Period (ca. 4500-3500 BCE)’, in T. Levy (ed.), The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land (London), 226-44.
   Google Scholar
• Levy, T. 1996. ‘Anthropological approaches to Protohistoric Palestine: A case study from the Negev Desert’, in J. Seger (ed.), Retrieving the Past: Essays on Archaeology and Research in Honor of Gus van Beek (Winona Lake), 63-78.
   Google Scholar
• Lovell, J. L., 1999. The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant: New data from Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Sydney, Sydney.
   Google Scholar
• Lovell, J. L., Kafafi, Z. & Dollfus, G., 1997. ‘A preliminary note on the ceramics from the basal levels at Abu Hamid’, in H-G. Gebel et al. (eds.), The Prehistog of Jordan II: Perspectives from 1997 (Berlin), 361–70.
   Google Scholar
• Lupton, A., 1996. Stability and Change. Socio-Political Development in North Mesopotamia and South-East Anatolia 4000-2700 BC (Oxford).
   Google Scholar
• McCorriston, J., 1997. ‘The fibre revolution: Textile extensification, alienation and social stratification in ancient Mesopotamia’, CA, 38: 517-49.
   Google Scholar
• McCreery, D., 1978/79. ‘Preliminary report of the APC Township Archaeological Survey’, ADAj, 22-23, 150-62.
   Google Scholar
• Mabry, J. (ed.), 1995. ‘Early town development and water management in the Jordan Valley: Investigations at Tell el-Handaquq North’, AASOR, 53, 115–54.
   Google Scholar
• Mabryj & Palumbo, G., 1992 ‘Environmental, economic, and political constraints on ancient settlement patterns in the Wadi al-Yabis region’, SHAJ, IV, 67-72.
   Google Scholar
• Mallon, A., Koeppel, R. & Neuville, R., 1934. Teleilat Ghassul I (Rome).
   Google Scholar
• Meadows, J., in press. ‘Olive domestication in the Jordan Valley’, in L. Hopkins & A. Parker (eds), The Ancient Near East: An Australian Postgraduate Perspective (Sydney).
   Google Scholar
• Mellaart, J., 1962. ‘Preliminary report of the archaeological survey in the Yarmouk and Jordan Valley’, ADAj, 6-7, 126-58.
   Google Scholar
• Moorey, P., 1989. ‘The Chalcolithic hoard from Nahal Mishmar, Israel, in context’, WA, 20, 171–89.
   Google Scholar
• Neef, R., 1990. ‘Introduction, development and environmental implications of olive culture’, in S. Bottema et al. (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam), 295–306.
   Google Scholar
• North, R., 1961. Ghassul 1960 Excavation Report (Rome).
   Google Scholar
• Philip, G., in press. ‘The Early Bronze Age I-III Periods’, in B. MacDonald et al. (eds), The Archaeology of Jordan (Sheffield).
   Google Scholar
• Philip, G. & Williams-Thorpe, O., 1993. ‘A provenance study of Jordanian basalt vessels of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I periods’, Paleorient, 19, 51–63.
   Google Scholar
• Philip, G. & Williams-Thorpe, O. in press. ‘The production and distribution of ground stone artefacts in the Southern Levant during the 5th-4th millennia BC: Some implications of geochemical and petrographic analysis’, in P. Matthiae et al. eds, Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Rome).
   Google Scholar
• Prag, K., 1995. ‘The Dead Sea dolmens: Death and the landscape’, in S. Campbell & A. Green (eds), The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East (Oxford) 75-85.
   Google Scholar
• Reese, D. S., Mienis, H. K. & Woodward, F. R., 1986. ‘On the trade of shells and fish from the Nile River’, BASOR, 264, 79–84.
   Google Scholar
• Rosen, S. A., 1997. Lithics after the Stone Age (Walnut Creek).
   Google Scholar
• Rothman, M., 1994a. ‘Seal and sealing findspot, design, audience, and function: Monitoring changes in administrative oversight and structure at Tepe Gawra during the fourth millennium B.C.’, in P. Ferioli et al. (eds), Archives before Writing (Turin), 97-119.
   Google Scholar
• Savage, S. H., 1997. ‘Descent group competition and economic strategies in predynastic Egypt’, jAA, 16, 226-68.
   Google Scholar
• Schmandt-Besserat, D., 1992. Before Writing. Vol. r . From Counting to Cuneiform (Austin).
   Google Scholar
• Schwartz, G. & Weiss, H., 1992. ‘Syria, Ca. 10,000-2000 BC’, in R. Ehrich (ed.), Chronologies in Old World Archaeology (Chicago), 185-202 & 221-43.
   Google Scholar
• Seaton, P., in press. ‘Aspects of new research at the Chalcolithic Sanctuary Precinct at Teleilat Ghassul’, in P. Matthiae et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Rome).
   Google Scholar
• Spriggs, M., 1989. 'The Hawaiian transformation of ancestral Polynesian society: conceptualizing chiefly states', in J. Gledhill et al. (eds.), State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization (London), 57–73.
   Google Scholar
• Stager, L., 1992. ‘The periodisation of Palestine from the Neolithic through Early Bronze times’, in R. Ehrich (ed.), Chronologies in Old World Archaeology (Chicago), 22–60.
   Google Scholar
• Stein, G., 19942. ‘Economy, ritual and power in `Ubaid Mesopotamia’, in G. Stein & M. Rothman (eds), Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organisational Dynamics of Complexit (Madison), 35-46.
   Google Scholar
• Stein, G., 1994b. ‘Segmentary states and organisational variation in early complex societies’, in G. Schwartz & S. Falconer (eds), Archaeological Views from the Countgside: Village Communities in Early Complex Societies (Washington), 10–18.
   Google Scholar
• Stein, G. 1998. ‘Heterogeneity, power and political economy: Some current research issues in the archaeology of OldWorld complex societies’, JAR, 6, 1–44.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stekelis, M., 1935. Les Monuments Megalithiques de Palestine (Paris).
   Google Scholar
• Ussishkin, D., 1980. ‘The Ghassulian Shrine at En-Gedi’, TA, 7, 1–44.
   Google Scholar
• Wapnish, P. & Hesse, B., 1991. ‘Faunal remains from Tel Dan: Perspectives on animal production at a village, urban and ritual center’, Archaeozoologia, 4, 9–86.
   Google Scholar
• Yoffee, N., 1979. ‘The decline and rise of Mesopotamian civilisation: An ethnoarchaeological perspective on the evolution of social complexity’, AA, 44, 5–35.
   Google Scholar
• Yoffee, N., 1993. ‘Too many chiefs? (or, Safe texts for the 9os)’, in N. Yoffee & A. Sherratt (eds), Archaeological Theog: Who Sets the Agenda? (New York), 60–78.
   Google Scholar
• Zohary, D. & Spiegel-Roy, P., 1975. ‘The beginnings of fruit growing in the Old World’, Science, 187, 319–27.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar