Preface and Introduction to the Volume
Suzanne Richard, Gannon University
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Part 1: Northern Levant
1. Northern Levant in Early Bronze Age III–IV: Economic Wealth and the International Landscape of “Secondary Urbanization”
Stefania Mazzoni, University of Florence
2. Developing Urbanism in the Early Bronze Age II–III of the Upper Orontes River Valley, Syria: Ceramics, Chronology, and Foreign Relations
Melissa A. Kennedy, The University of Western Australia
3. The ʿAmuq in the Early Bronze Age III–IV from a Levantine Perspective
Lynn Welton, University of Toronto
4. Ebla in the Mid- to- Late Third Millennium BCE: Architecture and Chronology
Frances Pinnock, Sapienza University of Rome
5. The Problem of the Ebla Destruction at the End of Early Bronze Age IVB: Stratigraphic Evidence, Radiocarbon Dating, Historical Events
Paolo Matthiae, Sapienza University of Rome
6. The Northern Levantine “Caliciform” Tradition
Lisa Cooper, University of British Columbia
7. The Connections Between the Northern and Southern Levant During Early Bronze Age III: Reevaluations and New Vistas in the Light of New Data and Higher Chronologies
Agnese Vacca, University of Milan; and Marta D’Andrea, Sapienza University of Rome
Part 2: Southern Levant
8. Perspectives on Egypt in the Southern Levant in Light of the High Early Bronze
Age Chronology
Karin Sowada, Macquarie University, Australia
9. Monumental Architecture and the Sociopolitical Developments in the Southern
Levant of the Early Bronze Age
Pierre de Miroschedji, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7041, Nanterre
10. Tell es- Sultan/Jericho in the Early Bronze Age III: Apogee of an Unusual “Palatial Society” in Palestine
Lorenzo Nigro, Sapienza University of Rome
11. Domestic Life During the Early Bronze Age III: A View from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath
Haskel J. Greenfield, University of Manitoba, Canada; Itzhaq Shai, Ariel University, Israel; and Aren M. Maeir, Bar- Ilan University, Israel
12. Urban Transformations: Continuity, Change, Rehabilitation, and Decay at Tel Bet Yeraḥ in the Early Bronze Age III
Sarit Paz, Tel Aviv University
13. Khirbet ez- Zeraqon and Early Bronze Age Chronology Revisited
Valentina Tumolo, Durham University, UK; and Felix Höflmayer, OREA Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie
14. Deeper Understandings: A Trench Through the Bronze Age Deposits at Khirbat
Hamra Ifdan
Hannah Friedman, Texas Tech University; Russell B. Adams, University of Waterloo; Keith Haylock, Independent Scholar; and Marta D’Andrea, Sapienza University of Rome
15. The Early Bronze Age III–IV Fortifications and Gateways of Tall al-Ḥammām: Data, Interpretations, and Insights from Twelve Excavation Seasons
Steven Collins, Trinity Southwest University
16. The Early Bronze Age III to Early Bronze Age IV Transition in the Upper Wadi
Zarqa: Continuity Versus Discontinuity
Maura Sala, Independent Scholar
17. Manufacturing Copper in the Periphery: Radiocarbon and the Question of Urbanism During the Early Bronze Age III–IV Transition
Aaron Gidding, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Thomas E. Levy, University of California at San Diego
18. Horizons of Cultural Connectivity: North–South Interactions and Interconnections During the Early Bronze Age IV
Melissa A. Kennnedy, University of Western Australia
19. Khirbet el- Meiyiteh and Elevation Point -167: Evidence of Fortified and Rural Early Bronze Age IV Settlements in Eastern Samaria
Shay Bar, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, Haifa University
20. It’s in the Style: Black Wheelmade Ware and Its Social Meaning
Shlomit Bechar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
21. Excavations at Kfar Vradim and Intraregional Settlement Patterns of the Western Upper Galilee During the Intermediate Bronze Age
Karen Covello- Paran, Israel Antiquities Authority
22. About Stratigraphy, Pottery, and Relative Chronology: Some Considerations for a Refinement of the Archaeological Periodization of the Southern Levantine Early Bronze Age IV
Marta D’Andrea, Sapienza University of Rome
23. New Vistas on the Early Bronze Age IV of the Southern Levant: A Case for “Rural Complexity” in the Permanent Sedentary Sites
Suzanne Richard, Gannon University
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