#chalcolithic

[bronzeageecho]

beads from tomb m10 at zaouiyet el-mayetin | c. 3600 - 3000 BCE | predynastic egypt, naqada ii culture

in the louvre collection, top to bottom: 1 2 3 4 5 6

[thesilicontribesman]

Mesolithic Harpoon Head, 4500 BCE, Stewartry Museum, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

This is a 6500 year old harpoon made from a Red Deer antler and found in the River Dee. It is of a similar type of harpoon to those found in Mesolithic caves or rock shelters near Oban. This piece has been carbon dated to around 4500 BCE.

[visions-of-our-past]

Shamhat seducing Enkidu by Līga Kļaviņa.

[ofruinsandmyth]

Çatalhöyük is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Excavation revealed 18 successive layers of buildings signifying various stages of the settlement and eras of history. The bottom layer of buildings can be dated as early as 7100 BC while the top layer of the later West Mound is from 5600 BC.

Initial estimates suggested an average population of between 5,000 and 7,000. However, more recent work using revised ideas of the distribution of residential buildings, and employing archaeological and ethnographic data exploring building use, suggests that between 600 and 800 people would have lived at Çatalhöyük East during an average year during the Middle phase (6700–6500 BC).

[victusinveritas]

[artifacts-archive]

Tell Halaf Figurine

Syrian, 6th millennium BCE (Chalcolithic)

As early as the 7th millennium BCE, cultures in the Near East began to create organized settlements with well-developed religious and funerary practices. The Halaf culture of Anatolia (southern Turkey) and northern Mesopotamia is named for Tell Halaf in modern day Syria and is one example of such sophisticated early cultures. The Halaf culture flourished during the 6th millennium BCE and was notable for its ceramic productions, both its intricately painted pottery and remarkable female figurines.

[pigeonduckthing]

Yamnaya culture / Proto-Indo-European, WSH, Western Steppe Herders, Chalcolithic / Bronze age

[hurngry]

i’m in the Neolithic (what?)

i’m in the Chalcolithic (what?)

i’m in the combination Neolithic Chalcolithic Anatol’ya

wait a minute — there’s painted pottery?

but nothing coppery

but the Anatolian Copper Age is about pottery