The "Gilat Woman": Female Iconography, Chalcolithic Cult, and the End of Southern Levantine Prehistory

Sometimes a single artifact can be the stimulus for a deep rethinking of a major socio-historic process. In this study, the authors use the "Gilat Woman" as a springboard for an innovative and provocative new appreciation of the economic and socio-political structures that underlay the Levantine Chalcolithic.

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