Archaeological culture · c. 4400–3500 BCE

Ghassulian culture

A Copper Age culture of the southern Levant, named after Teleilat el-Ghassul near the north end of the Dead Sea in Jordan. Its people lived in small farming hamlets, decorated houses with colourful wall paintings such as the 'Ghassulian Star', buried the bones of their dead in clay ossuaries shaped like houses, and were skilled metalworkers: the Nahal Mishmar hoard of cast copper sceptres and crowns belongs to this time.

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4400–3500 BCE