Encounters with Southern Levantine Chalcolithic

The book highligths the author's involvement in fieldwork and archaeological research in the northern Negev desert in Israel for 12 years, during which he was constantly asked by well-intentioned people why he had decided to conduct research in that area, very likely because of his African identity. It assembles some of the author's expanded publications along with new chapters and features new themes and perspectives like regional archaeology, taphonomy and formation processes of the archaeological record, theory and practice in household archaeology, as well as the integration of aDNA (Ancient DNA) and genomics in the explanation of long-term culture change. The work offers a critique of the concept of "transition" almost universally used as synonymous to succession in the explanation of change from one archaeological culture to the next.

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Successivamente professore all'Università della California (SD), all'Università del Michigan, all'Università di Parigi-Nanterre, vicedirettore del CNRS e professore universitario emerito all'Università di Xiamen (Cina), Augustin F. C. Holl ha svolto attività di ricerca sul campo nel deserto del Negev (Israele) dal 1984 al 1996, parallelamente alle ricerche in Africa.

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The book highligths the author's involvement in fieldwork and archaeological research in the northern Negev desert in Israel for 12 years, during which he was constantly asked by well-intentioned people why he had decided to conduct research in that area, very likely because of his African identity. It assembles some of the author's expanded publications along with new chapters and features new themes and perspectives like regional archaeology, taphonomy and formation processes of the archaeological record, theory and practice in household archaeology, as well as the integration of aDNA (Ancient DNA) and genomics in the explanation of long-term culture change. The work offers a critique of the concept of "transition" almost universally used as synonymous to succession in the explanation of change from one archaeological culture to the next.