Resumen de Time and tradition in the transition from Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic: summary and conclusions
This part of Paléorient is devoted to debate over and recent new evidence concerning the basic chronology of the transition from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic (6th and 5th millennia cal. BC), mainly in the southern Levant, but also in those parts of �greater Mesopotamia� where Halafian and Halaf-related assemblages are thought to occur. Much of the discussion centres on the fairly recent accumulation of new radiocarbon evidence but the basic frameworks, built from relative chronology and comparison of assemblages, that have structured our thinking about what it is we are dating have also become subject to debate.
