Deep History of the Levant: Communities, Cities, and Imperial Crossroads
Lower Jordan Valley · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Teleilat Ghassul and Jordan Valley Chalcolithic communities

Teleilat Ghassul

Buildings, wall paintings, pottery, tools, production, and regional exchange illuminate changing Chalcolithic households and communal practices.

Chalcolithic settlement, household, craft, painting, and archaeological-classification context Approximately 4500-3600 BCE Architecture, stratigraphy, wall paintings, pottery, lithics, metallurgy, fauna, plants, and dating Teleilat Ghassul; a research site, not the capital or boundary of a Ghassulian people
Resumo

Geografia, contexto político e legado

Conexões mediterrânicas, fluviais, de vales, terras altas, desertos, peregrinação e impérios

Valley fields, water, pastoral zones, settlements, copper routes, and exchange connected communities.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Households, craft, and communal practices are visible, while political scale and authority remain uncertain.

Contextos imperiais, religiosos, de patrimônio vivo e recepção moderna

Jordanian stewardship cannot convert an archaeological label into modern identity or ancestry.

Classification Ghassulian material context

Not a homogeneous tribe or biological population.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S2]
Painting rare preserved wall imagery

Meaning and religious role are not directly recoverable.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S3]
Exchange regional craft connections

Objects do not map fixed political or ethnic boundaries.

Reviewed 2026 [S2] [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Settlement develops

    Built areas and household activity accumulated over phases.

  2. Wall paintings and craft appear

    Selected buildings preserve unusual visual evidence.

  3. Regional connections change

    Material styles moved without defining ethnic borders.

  4. Excavation defines the label

    Research history shaped the Ghassulian classification.

Cultura e língua

Cultura e língua em contexto

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • No directly attested language

Família linguística: Not recoverable from pottery or painting styles

Wall paintings

Households

Craft production

Regional exchange

This summary describes only what the cited public sources support.

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Cadastro de Testes

Fontes usadas nesta página

Prefer primary and accountable public-institution sources.

  1. C1

    Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  2. C2

    Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  3. C3

    Human Origins Program

    Smithsonian Institution · National museum research resource · Current resource

  4. C4

    West Semitic Research Project

    University of Southern California · Academic inscription and manuscript project · Current resource

  5. C5

    Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

    Israel Antiquities Authority · Public manuscript resource · Current resource

  6. C6

    Ancient Near East collections

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum research collection · Current database

  7. C7

    Petra

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  8. C8

    Umm Al-Jimāl

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  9. C9

    Emergency safeguarding of Syrian cultural heritage

    UNESCO · International heritage stewardship resource · Current resource

  10. C10

    Byblos

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  11. C11

    Tyre

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  12. C12

    American Center of Research in Jordan

    ACOR · Regional archaeological research institution · Current resource

  13. S1

    Teleilat Ghassul research

    University of Sydney Archaeology · University research resource · Current resource

  14. S2

    Jordan archaeological heritage

    Department of Antiquities of Jordan · National heritage authority · Current resource

  15. S3

    Ancient Levant collections

    British Museum · Museum collection resource · Current database

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Revisión editorial: 6 agosto 2026