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  • CAJ volume 32 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 32 / Issue 1 / February 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2022, pp. b1-b4
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  • CAJ volume 32 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 32 / Issue 1 / February 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2022, pp. f1-f3
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  • Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant

  • Nissim Amzallag
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 32 / Issue 3 / August 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 December 2021, pp. 445-465

  • The causes of the disappearance of Late Chalcolithic society (Ghassulian) in the early fourth millennium bc remain obscure. This study identifies the collapse as the consequence of a change in the approach to metallurgy from cosmological fundament (Late Chalcolithic) to a practical craft (EB1). This endogenous transition accounts for the cultural recession characterizing the transitional period (EB1A) and the discontinuity in ritual practices. The new practical approach in metallurgy is firstly observed in the southern margin of the Ghassulian culture, which produced copper for distribution in the Nile valley rather than the southern Levant. Nevertheless, the Ghassulian cultural markers visible in the newly emerging areas of copper working (southern coastal plain, Nile valley) denote the survival of the old cosmological traditions among metalworkers of the EB1 culture. Their religious expression unveils the extension of the Ghassulian beliefs attached to metallurgy and their metamorphosis into the esoteric fundaments of the Bronze Age religions.

  • 3 - Hunter-Gatherer Demography

  • Jennifer C. French, University of Liverpool
  • Book:
    Palaeolithic Europe
    Published online:
    27 October 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021, pp 49-84

  • Summary

    Demographic data from recent hunter-gatherers are frequently used to supplement the database available for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Through the lens of Human Behaviour Ecology, Chapter 3 analyses demographic data from recent foragers, identifies common population controls and constraints and uses these to develop some expectations for Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers.

  • 1 - Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory

  • Jennifer C. French, University of Liverpool
  • Book:
    Palaeolithic Europe
    Published online:
    27 October 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021, pp 1-18

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 introduces the key issues in Palaeolithic palaeodemography, the four-stage model of the demographic prehistory of Palaeolithic Europe developed in this book, and the social approach adopted which focuses on the role of women and children as drivers of population change, and the distinction between small and small-scale societies.

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