Ongoing research on Teleilat Ghassul

A legacy collection and archive does not need to remain frozen in the past. Rather, it can be an opportunity to return to the site and its material with new approaches and techniques. Over the years, our collection has remained open to research, and we aim to actively support and encourage studies that make use of our materials.

If you would like to make use of our archaeological collection and archive for academic research, please contact us at admipib@gmail.com. Kindly be aware that we are a small institution with very limited resources, so — while we will do our best to open our collection and archive — we will require your flexibility in doing so.

Recent studies that have made use of our collection

• 2025: S. Zuhovitzky, P. Waiman-Barak & Y. Gadot, “The Cornets of Teleilat Ghassul as a Vigil Object”, Tel Aviv 52.2 (2025) 159–185 (open access): doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2025.2546274
• 2024: D. Rosenberg, S. Gur-Arieh, M. Pearl & H. Ahituv, “(Don’t) Use Your Hands: The South Levantine Late Chalcolithic (ca. 4500–3900 cal BC) Spoons and Their Significance”, Humans 4.4 (2024) 385–399 (open access): doi.org/10.3390/humans4040025
• 2019: V. Roux, “The Ghassulian ceramic tradition: a single chaîne opératoire prevalent throughout the southern Levant”, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 7.1 (2019) 23–43: hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-02898176v1

Further studies

• B. Drabsch, The Mysterious Wall Paintings of Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan: In Context. Archaeopress Publishing, 2015: doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr43kzq
• A. Polcaro et al., “The Tuleilat al-Ghassul Star Painting: A Hypothesis Regarding a Solar Calendar from the Fourth Millennium B.C.”, Time and History in the Ancient Near East, Penn State University Press, 2013, 273–284: doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1bxgzf2.28

Theses

• J.R. Lee, Chalcolithic Ghassul: New Aspects and Master Typology. Unpublished PhD thesis, Hebrew University, 1973 (not available online).
• S.A. Scham, Pastoralism and the Emergence of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Chalcolithic Period: Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2000.
• S. Zuhovitzky, The Cornets of Teleilat Ghassul. MA thesis, Tel Aviv University, 2023 (not available online).