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9th Meeting of the Forum for the Research of the Chalcolithic PeriodThe periodization of the Ghassulian and other contemporary Chalcolithic entities of the second half of the 5th-beginning of the 4th millennia BCWeizmann Institute, Rehovot (Israel) Schmidt Auditorium March 10th, 2016Lectures will be in English9.00-9.30 Gathering9.30-9.45 Greetings Elisabetta Boaretto (Max Planck-Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology, Weizmann Institut)Introduction Ianir Milevski (Israel Antiquities Authority)Lectures 9.45-11.15First session Chair: Eliot Braun WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem)The synchronization of Chalcolithic cultures in the southern Levant: the radiocarbon view - Elisabetta Boaretto (Max Planck-Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology, Weizmann Institute)Early and late in the Ghassulian culture - Isaac Gilead (Archaeological Division, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)The stratigraphy and the chronology of the Late Chalcolithic period in the Galilee and the Golan - Dina Shalem (Institute for Galilean Archaeology, Kinneret College) &#38; Nimrod Getzov(Israel Antiquities Authority)11.15-11.45 Coffee break11.45-13.15 Second session Chair: Eli Yannai (Israel Antiquities Authority) Radiometric dating and material culture of the Judean Desert caves: back to the "end of the Ghassulian culture" hypothesis? -  Uri Davidovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)The chronology of the Tall Hujayrat al-Ghuzlan and Tall al-Magass in Jordan and the Ghassulian Chalcolithic: Absolute chronology and material culture - Florian Klimscha (Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Eurasien Abteilung)The herding revolution in the desert and the chronology of the Timnian culture - Steven A. Rosen (Archaeological Division, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) &#38; Jacob Vardi (Israel Antiquities Authority)