Early Settlement

No, not what I am involved for the past four decades in one form or another but an earlier settlement time, from the Chalcolithic Period.

Chaloclithic is the name given to the period in the Near East and Europe after the Neolithic and before the Bronze Age, roughly between about 4500 and 3500 BC. This period has the earliest evidence for complex societies, the location of cemeteries outside of settlements, craft specialization in copper tool production (casting and lost wax), ivory, and ceramics. Chalcolithic is sometimes referred to as the 'Copper Age', and the word is from the Greek for copper (chalcos) and stone (lithos).

And the story is:

The 5th meeting of the Forum for the Research of the Chalcolithic
Period (Israel)

Northern Israel during the Chalcolithic Period: Ghassulian or
Independent Cultures?*

December 8th, 2011, Kinneret College, Tzemah Junction, Sea of Galilee

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.10 Greetings

10.10-11.30 Lectures. Chairman: Naama Scheftelowitz (Tel Aviv University)

-Nimrod Getzov (Israel Antiquities Authority): Settlement patterns, architecture, burials and installations

-Dina Shalem ( Insitute for Galillean Archaeology): Pottery vessels and other finds

- Ofer Marder (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Yaakov Vardi (Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben Gurion University): The flint assemblages

11;30-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-13.00 Exhibition of finds from different Chalcolithic sites in northern Israel. Chairman: Zvi Gal (Institute for Galilean Archaeology)

-Howard Smithline: H. Dobshan, Tel Turmus

-Nimrod Getzov (Israel Antiquities Authority): Beit Haemeq, Ard el-Samra

-Dina Shalem (Institute for Galilean Archaeology): Beer Tzones, Marj` Raba

-Emannuel Eisenberg (Israel Antiquities Authority): Tel Te`o

-Ianir Milevski (Israel Antiquities Authority): Stone tools from Tel Turmus

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-16.00 Lectures and general discussion. Chairman: Nimrod Getzov (Israel Antiquities Authority)

-Eli Yannai (Israel Antiquities Authority): Comparison of finds from northern Israel with the site of Assawir

-Isaac Gilead (Ben Gurion University): Comparison of the finds from northern Israel with the finds from southern Israel

Did they find any "Palestinians"?

P.S. Yes, I am aware that the Patriarch Avraham hadn't yet arrived from the area of Babylon, in Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:28).

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