The Levant in Transition: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the British Museum on 20-21 April 2004

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CONTENTS Preface JONATHAN N. TUBB (BRITISH MUSEUM, UK) Early Bronze III and IV: Chronological and Cultural Relations RUPERT L. CHAPMAN III (BRITISH MUSEUM, UK) Socio-Economic Aspects of an Intermediate Bronze Age Village in the Jezreel Valley KAREN COVELLO-PARAN (ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, ISRAEL) The Northern Levant at the End of the Early Bronze Age: The Evidence from Sidon CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK) A Short-Lived Settlement System and a Lengthy Period: The Intermediate Bronze Age (‘EB IV’) on the Coastal Plain of Israel RAM GOPHNA (TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL) Copper Trade and Pastoralism in the Negev and Sinai Deserts in the EB IV MOTI HAIMAN (ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, ISRAEL) The Intermediate Bronze Age (IBA) in the Negev, Forty Years Later MOSHE KOCHAVI† (TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL) Jebel Bishri in Syria and the Role of Nomadism in the End of the Early Bronze Age MINNA LÖNNQVIST (UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FINLAND) Tell Mishrifeh and its Region During the EBA IV and the EBA–MBA Transition. A First Assessment DANIELE MORANDI BONACOSSI (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE, ITALY) EB IVB–MBI in Northern Syria: Crisis and Change of a Mature Urban Civilisation FRANCES PINNOCK (UNIVERSITY OF ROME, ITALY) The Late Third Millennium in the Levant: A Reappraisal of the North–South Divide KAY PRAG (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK) Khirbet Iskander, Jordan and Early Bronze IV Studies: A View from a Tell SUZANNE RICHARD (GANNON UNIVERSITY, USA) AND JESSE C. LONG, JR. (LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, USA) The Southern Ghors and the Kerak Plateau in EB IV R. THOMAS SCHAUB (INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, USA) Aliens in the Levant JONATHAN N. TUBB (BRITISH MUSEUM, UK) Afterword PETER J. PARR (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK)