Sha'ar Hagolan: Neolithic Art in Context

by Yosef Garfinkel and M. Miller

This monograph presents the revolutionary results of ten years of excavation and research in the Neolithic village of Sha'ar Hagolan, Jordan Valley, Israel. Sha'ar Hagolan is dated to the Pottery Neolithic period and is the type-site for the Yarmukian culture, which occupied large parts of the Mediterranean climatic zones of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon during the sixth millennium BC. Recent excavations at the site have far-reaching implications for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842170570
• ISBN13: 9781842170571
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.5"