Six thousand years ago, people living in the southern Levant moved from small, autonomous village lifestyles to complex social structures with innovations and products that remain today. Humans discovered how to irrigate the desert and grow fruit crops, and transform copper ore into a useable metal, for the first time. Pairing this with their artistic genius, people of the Chalcolithic period, or Copper Age, created stunning symbols of rank and power - metal standards, crowns and mace heads - and utilitarian objects unearthed by archaeologists in the Cave of the Treasure and other sites. Thomas Levy's adventurous journey with a team of international scientists to re-create the copper smelting processes used by our inventive ancestors is the highlight of this fascinating book.

Journey to the Copper Age: Archaeology in the Holy Land

History

Levy, Thomas Evan

Middle East

San Diego Museum of Man

Catalogue of the Hrdlička paleopathology collection

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Ceremonial Fertility Sites in Southern California (SAN DIEGO MUSEUM PAPERS)

McGowan, Charlotte

Americas

<p>Despite the disruption and near total destruction of the native lifestyle, basketry survived in almost every locality. The need for baskets in preparing native foodstuffs - an important part of the elderly Miwok people's diet into the 1930s - and the ready sale of baskets to non-Indians appear to be major factors in the survival of basket making skills. In the early years of the 20th century found a ready market and often were made on special order for Anglo patrons. Subsequently, in an effort to "forget about" being Indian, relatively few young women learned to weave baskets. Conversations with Miwok elders today indicate that few, if any, young women learned to weave after 1930.</p>

Coiled Basketry of the Sierra Miwok: A Study of Regional Variation (San Diego Museum Papers)

Bates, Craig D.

Arts & Photography

The Cerro Sechín Massacre: Did it happen? (Ethnic technology notes, 18)

Cordy-Collins, Alana

Rock art papers (San Diego Museum papers)

Heritage in clay: The 1912 Pueblo pottery collections of Wesley Bradfield and Thomas S. Dozier (San Diego Museum papers)

Hedges, Ken

Symbolic space & ritual time in a Peruvian healing ceremony (Ethnic technology notes)

Joralemon, Donald

pp. x, 150, b/w photographs and sketch illustrations

Two Mummies from Chihuahua, Mexico: A Multidisciplinary Study (SAN DIEGO MUSEUM PAPERS)

Tyson, Rose A.

Elerick, Daniel V.

Rock Art Papers Vol. 3: San Diego Museum Paper, No. 20

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