The Levant-modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine-is one of the
most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated …

This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area
situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean …

Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference—how the researcher can
identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill L. Baker's …

We present two new Bayesian 14C models using IntCal20 that incorporate 17 new
calibrated AMS ages for Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni 'aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell el …

During the summer of 2011, a two-room monumental structure was found at the site of Tel
Kabri in Israel. Designated as the “Orthostat Building” because of its extensive use of …

Archaeological scholarship of the Bronze Age in Canaan has long noted and remarked on
the discontinuities between the Intermediate Bronze Age and the beginning of the Middle …

Intermediate and M iddle B ronze A ge tombs with weapons (mainly daggers) in the
southern Levant were often interpreted as 'warrior graves'. Taking into consideration new …

OUT OF THE MISTS OF THE ALPHABET – REDRAWING THE “BROTHER OF THE RULER
OF RETENU” Page 1 OUT OF THE MISTS OF THE ALPHABET – REDRAWING THE “BROTHER …

Peoples of the distant past lived comfortably in cities that boasted well-conceived urban
planning, monumental architecture, running water, artistic expression, knowledge of …

Tell Abu en-Ni 'aj, an agrarian Early Bronze IV village in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan,
provides a series of 24 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) seed dates spanning seven …