Book Review of Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant, edited by Graham Philip and Douglas Baird; The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant, by Jaimie L. Lovell

Lovell’s The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant is an important work that synthesizes information from one of the most significant Chalcolithic sites in the southern Levant, Teleilat Ghassul in south Jordan, the type-site that defined the Ghassulian period in the southern Levant. In this era (the fifth and early fourth millennia B.C.E., uncalibrated), Neolithic societies began to develop into more complex social formations. Ghassul was originally excavated in the 1920s.