Contents:

1. The cultural landscape of Egypt and Southern Levant in the 4th millennium BC

Geography

Periodisation

Cultural landscape

2. Copper and Copper Deposits

3. Copper in the Levant

4. Copper in Egypt. Typology of the most important types of objects

5. Similarities and differences between Egypt and the Levant regarding production of copper objects

6. Relations between Egypt and the southern Levant and the economy of exchange

7. Conclusion

8. Bibliography

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