The "Gilat Woman": Female Iconography, Chalcolithic Cult, and the End of Southern Levantine Prehistory

Sometimes a single artifact can be the stimulus for a deep rethinking of a major socio-historic process. In this study, the authors use the "Gilat Woman" as a springboard for an innovative and provocative new appreciation of the economic and socio-political structures that underlay the Lev...

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Authors: Joffe, Alexander H. (Author) ; Dessel, J. P. (Author) ; Hallote, Rachel S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2001
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2001, Volume: 64, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 9-23
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Summary:Sometimes a single artifact can be the stimulus for a deep rethinking of a major socio-historic process. In this study, the authors use the "Gilat Woman" as a springboard for an innovative and provocative new appreciation of the economic and socio-political structures that underlay the Levantine Chalcolithic.
ISSN:2325-5404
Contains:Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3210817