Life of the Spirit: The Chalcolithic Culture, 6500 Years Ago in the Southern Levant

Osnat Misch-Brandl is Curator of Chalcolithic and Canaanite Periods, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, where she has worked since 1979.  During her tenure, her many exhibitions and accompanying catalogues—both on her own and with her predecessor, Miriam Tadmor—include:  3500-Year-Old Jewelry (1980); The Oldest Gold in the World (1994); and A 6,000-Year-Old Nobleman: Finds from the Cave of the Warrior (2003). She is also responsible for the renewal of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Galleries of the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Archaeology Wing at the Israel Museum between 2008 and 2010.  Ms. Misch-Brandl holds a Master's degree in Biblical and Classical Archaeology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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